A series of debates arose on abuses in the commissariat, in the chartering of transports, and in the contracts for supplying the troops in America with provisions, rum, &c.
Every man of common sense would buy up every guinea in the country; the whole of our mercantile transactions would be disturbed, and all private contracts be open to inquiry and to defeat.
All contracts were to be rigidly probed, and payment suspended on those of which there was the slightest doubt.
The hair hygrometer depends for its action upon the fact that a hair, freed from oil, not only absorbs moisture from the atmosphere, but elongates when damp and contracts when dry.
Hasn't it struck you as strange that Hilliard should wait until you had sewed yourself up in a web of contracts and obligations before advising you of the bad news?
Balt closed his contracts for Chinese labor, and the scattered car-loads of material, which had been lost en route or mysteriously laid out on sidings, began to come in as if of their own accord.
That which has its grain crosswise, dilates with moisture, and contracts for the want of it.
You will see, too, that allcontracts for tobacco are forbidden, till it arrives in France.
The money thus stolen--and it amounted to immense sums--was divided among the parties letting the contracts and the contractors.
The contracts were let at the legal rates, and then, availing themselves of the legal authority, the same routes were "expedited" at immense profits.
If they remain idle for a few months, and we cannot carry out the contracts we have undertaken for the year, then--it is all up with us.
If there is a stoppage on the works for a couple of months or so just now when the great contracts have been entered into, it is all up with their fine doings.
At first sight this explanation seemed a little puzzling to many laymen and some experts, for it seemed to imply, as Lord Kelvin pointed out, that the sun contracts because it is getting cooler, and gains heat because it contracts.
His savings, he invested in trade; his intriguing spirit brought him to the notice of the Intendant Hocquart, who gave him contracts to supply meat for the army.
Northern employers who had been dependent on them for their labor soon faced a serious shortage of labor, on the one hand, while, on the other, they saw their contracts with European concerns for war supplies increase tremendously.
Only cases relating to land or lease contracts were reserved to be adjudicated by Chinese Courts, as a mark of China's sovereignty over the region.
To pass measures for the calling of public loans and to concludecontracts affecting the National Treasury.
As for the trial of cases relating to land and lease contracts the Chinese Government now permits the Japanese Consul to send an officer to attend the proceedings.
Afterward the foreign traders disembark and perform their contracts there, and then return to their vessel.
Crothers seems hell-bound just now in frightening them into signing contracts for themselves and their children for years to come.
We have known regular contracts entered into with the peasantry, by which they agreed to pay from 3 to 5 per cent more than the legal tenth.
The Government had now let contracts for building a court house and police barracks in Vindex Street and post office in Elderslie Street.
The township consisted of tents, but as the storekeepers required something more substantial than calico, I sold my tarpaulin for a good price, and made contracts to supply bark at 5/- per sheet.
The next day the gentlemen departed, Mr. Tomlinson going to the smaller Philbrick plantations to make the newly-ordered written contractswith the people.
He had an able corps of assistants, collecting materials, letting out contracts for ties, grading, etc.
I hope the Government will not manifest too much anxiety to obtain cotton in large quantities, and especially that the President will not indorse the contracts for the purchase of large quantities of cotton.
As the holder of a civil office, having the supervision of moneys appropriated by Congress and of contracts for army supplies, I do think Congress, or the Senate by delegation from Congress, has a lawful right to be consulted.
All contracts should be numbered as received, and registered in numerical sequence.
Since all contracts call for payments on certain days of the week or month, it is very necessary that the collection cards be brought to notice on the collection days.
Original contracts should be kept in a fire-proof safe, and should be filed in numerical order.
Sometimes, however, it is desirable to refer to allcontracts in a given territory.
The most convenient file is a document file, in which contracts can be filed folded.
An increasing number of advertisers are placing contracts for space through the agencies, and relying largely on the advice of the agency in the selection of mediums.
Through one of these agencies, contracts can be made for space in street cars in any city in the country.
On certain contracts the agency will include extra service, without additional cost, by running cards in a number of extra cars, which are put on during the rush hours.
Some houses follow the practice of allowing the collector to carry the original contracts, and in such cases the contracts are filed according to the dates on which payments are due.
With the sales manager and general manager, he makes up appropriations for periodical advertising and places contracts when these appropriations have been approved.
If the contract number only is known, reference is had to the installment register, where all contracts are recorded in numerical order.
All contracts are registered in numerical order, in an installment register ruled as shown in Fig.
Most publishers of magazines and newspapers grant certain space discounts, based on the space used within one year, and in many cases, to secure these discounts, contracts must be made in advance.
The advertising manager has charge of the preparation of all advertising literature, catalogues, copy and designs for all periodical advertising and usually the placing of all contracts for printing and engraving.
Still the circle of bayonets contracts around the apparently ill-starred Modoc stronghold.
The Ventricle of their Heart contracts about sixty times in a minute; and the purple colour of the Blood which is seen within it, disappears after each contraction, or the Blood is entirely expelled by its contraction.
He who is determined on living a single life, very naturally contracts his endeavors to his own narrow personal wants, or else squanders freely, in the belief that he can always procure enough to support himself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contracts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
