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Example sentences for "contractor"

Lexicographically close words:
contractile; contractility; contracting; contraction; contractions; contractors; contracts; contractual; contracture; contractures
  1. Why, in order to better exercise this right, and better fulfill this obligation, should it not constitute itself the universal contractor for labor, and the universal distributor of productions?

  2. We cannot imagine why any contractor would care to have apprentices at all, if their direction and control is to be so completely out of his hands.

  3. Any member of this Union working for a Mason Contractor shall be paid every two weeks on Tuesday before 5 P.

  4. We discussed the relations of the contractor and the workmen, and found much in which they had a common or joint interest, and were mutually concerned.

  5. The contractor must sign such indentures as are prepared by the Union without consultation with him.

  6. No contractor will be allowed to have an apprentice over eighteen years of age unless he be the son of a journeyman who is a member of the Union.

  7. The contractor is thus debarred from putting his own son at apprenticeship if he happens to be eighteen years of age.

  8. A contractor who was familiar with the facts in the case said the statement of Mr. Falkenau would be supported by other testimony when the time came, but he was satisfied there would be no libel suit.

  9. The consistency of the union bricklayers was exhibited in a case where a building was taken from a contractor and given to bricklayers to complete.

  10. It had become a question whether the contractor was to allow his employes to domineer over him and dictate everything, or whether he should have a little to do with the management of his own affairs.

  11. Where the make or brand is specified or where the expression “equal to” is used, the contractor must notify the architect of the make or brand to be used and receive his approval before any of said material is installed.

  12. The contractor shall furnish the owner with 150 per cent.

  13. The contractor shall furnish, install and connect all push buttons, bells, buzzers and annunciators, as shown on plans or therein described.

  14. Therefore, it is well once in a while to take the little key provided by the heating contractor and open the air valves on radiators to allow the air (if any) to escape.

  15. Orgell's liaison man in the smuggling activities was Frank Mutschinski, a painting contractor who used to live at 116 Garland Court, Garritsen Beach, N.

  16. Anceaux, a building contractor of Dieppe, and that skilled members of the Secret Committee for Revolutionary Action had been recruited for the building and sworn to secrecy under penalty of death.

  17. But within city limits overhead wires, with such space-consuming potentials, are as fraught with mischievous peril to the public as the dynamite stored by a nonchalant contractor in the cellar of a schoolhouse.

  18. No sensible or efficient station manager or electric contractor would ever think of an installation made upon any other plan.

  19. Construction, in the hands of Contractor J.

  20. The trucks were drawn by a horse, and the horse ought to have had a boy to hitch on or off at a moment's notice: but the contractor refused to supply boys.

  21. The hungry contractor undertakes the job at the lowest possible price, and secures his profit by getting hungrier and weaker creatures than himself to do the work at a price lower than possible, literally at starvation wages.

  22. While six inches over an area of this size does not materially injure the work, you are too old a contractor to alter a level to one which you admit now was wrong, and which at the time you knew was wrong, without some written order.

  23. It's torture to a contractor who is behind time," he continued, flecking the ashes of his cigar into his saucer.

  24. Is this the reason you have withheld the certificate, of which the contractor complains?

  25. The family portraits, the carved oak furniture, the china fell to the contractor who demolished the mansion.

  26. It was reported that the estate of the contractor was in the Court of Chancery, a further survey of the proposed line was ordered, and steps were taken to ensure the resumption of the works.

  27. Boardman and Son, and the contractor was Mr. John Youngs.

  28. Their Royal Highnesses de facto opened the new line of the West Norfolk Junction Railway, which had been pushed forward by the contractor so as to be ready for the purpose.

  29. Flemming, of Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, and the contractor was Mr. G.

  30. The contractor found a chair; drew it close to the general manager's desk, and filled it.

  31. The contractor sat back in his chair and plunged his stubby hands deep into his pockets.

  32. Richards was at the same time state senator from Wilcox, sheriff of the same county, contractor to feed prisoners, and professor in the University.

  33. A former beef contractor who had grown rich in the cotton trade was said to have controlled almost the whole of Huntsville.

  34. One contractor sells annually as much as three thousand bushels; and he gives it as his opinion, that there must be at least one hundred and fifty times this quantity (four hundred and fifty thousand bushels per annum) sold in London.

  35. That's where a contractor was once telling that some merchants or other were eating pancakes; one ate forty pancakes and he went and died, he was saying.

  36. And the same contractor was telling--perhaps he was lying--that there was a cable stretching right across Moscow.

  37. Now that the contractor keeps these appliances in order himself, this repair bill for a long while to come should be very small.

  38. In letting the prisoners on contract, the State furnishes the shop to the contractor rent free, also the motive power, shafting and belting, keeping these in repair.

  39. Contractor Lorimer, you will no doubt take especial care of Miss Carrington.

  40. Stand right up, Contractor Lorimer--they're shouting for you.

  41. He's wanting Contractor Lorimer, and won't lie down until he finds him.

  42. An unscrupulous contractor regards no basement as too dark, no stable loft too foul, no rear shanty too provisional, no tenement room too small for his workroom, as these conditions imply low rental.

  43. The site usually selected is a rice field, for which the contractor may have to pay a small rent.

  44. The contractor has to engage the Kudubis and select the site for the ovens, conveniently situated both for water and firewood, and also as close to the majority of catechu trees as he can get it.

  45. The Indians have stopped cutting the wood, and they say the contractor tells them he will send others to cut wood if they will not do it.

  46. The contractor had imagined that his son would implore forgiveness; but seeing that he remained obdurate, his violence burst forth again.

  47. This celebrated contractor lived in a splendid house in the Rue Chasse d'Antin, until his more palatial residence should be completed.

  48. The contractor sank into a chair and buried his face in his hands.

  49. When we talk of Army contractors as among the base but active actualities of war, we commonly mean that while the contractor benefits by the war, the war, on the whole, rather suffers by the contractor.

  50. Then a contractor dropped in who had horses and tools but no job.

  51. Peterson, the masonry contractor at the works, will give the stone, and his masons will donate the labor.

  52. But not even first-class watering places can be built in a day, and the contractor made a modest beginning with a row of lodging houses.

  53. Not less essential, in his creative function, is the capitalist; and even the powerful combination of capitalist and contractor is insufficient to carry matters to a practical conclusion without the expert guidance of the engineer.

  54. But engineer and contractor had something better to do than admire the view.


  55. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contractor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.