How to Use by contract in a Sentence
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The second is for you and your spouse to agree, by contract, to keep a designation in place.
—Dallas News, 22 Aug. 2021
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When week by week, contract by contract, the costs went up and up, hardly anybody noticed.
—Kyle Whitmire, al, 27 Sep. 2021
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The housing department has long been staffed by contract workers.
—Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2023
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The Ravens’ training camp is being headlined by contract squabbles.
—Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2022
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The shadow-caster is his father, a Colombian doctor and public-health activist gunned down in 1987 by contract killers in a Medellín street.
—Giles Tremlett, WSJ, 14 May 2021
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Last year, when the city canceled its fireworks display, the company by contract was able to charge a 50% cancellation fee.
—Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 7 May 2021
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Methodist University had their site hacked by contract cheaters but acted quickly.
—Derek Newton, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
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And that doesn’t include salaries — roughly 30% — which largely are fixed by contract but can be adjusted somewhat via union concessions or layoffs.
—Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 10 Sep. 2022
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But because of the emergency pandemic response, the U.S. government owns all the product and, by contract with the companies, cannot provide it for research purposes.
—Byjon Cohen, science.org, 30 May 2023
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But because of the emergency pandemic response, the U.S. government owns all the product and, by contract with the companies, cannot provide it for research purposes.
—Byjon Cohen, science.org, 30 May 2023
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Given that most of the state’s debt costs are fixed by contract, critics say this cut likely would fall heavily on municipal aid, driving up property taxes.
—Keith Phaneuf, courant.com, 28 Jan. 2022
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The program is established and enforced by a private agreement — not legislation — and enforceable by contract law.
—CNN, 17 June 2021
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TikTok’s data halls within these centers are managed in part by ByteDance and in part by contract workers from several data center management firms.
—Emily Baker-White, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
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But in addition to a free agent market flooded with unexpected talent next week, the coming days will feature creative moves by contract negotiators.
—Mike Jones, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2021
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If the buyer wanted all rights to a collectible, the copyright holder would need to separately transfer the copyright by contract, said Ali Dhanani, an intellectual-property lawyer at Baker Botts.
—Amber Burton, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2021
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Current workers say their jobs are at risk of being replaced by contract laborers, their union has not been recognized, and retaliation is still possible.
—Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
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Some of those data-collection activities were previously handled by contract workers who in many cases will no longer be needed.
—Lauren Weber, WSJ, 15 July 2021
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Intermittent fuel shortages and chronic blackouts, driven in part by contract disputes and the security crisis, are not uncommon in Haiti.
—Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2022
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Agricultural applications, by contract, use gallons of this product per acre.
—Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Mar. 2021
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The law was passed in May 2021, five months after Novo Nordisk adopted the policies restricting participation by covered entities serviced by contract pharmacies.
—Dale Ellis, Arkansas Online, 24 Nov. 2022
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Carriage decisions are governed by contract law; disappearing a cable channel isn’t as easy as disappearing a Twitter account.
—Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 25 Feb. 2021
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For Emergent, the revenue growth is being largely driven by contract development and manufacturing business.
—Trefis Team, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021
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Any legislation supported by the administration should prevent software makers from avoiding liability by contract and create higher standards for software in specific high-risk situations, the strategy says.
—Dustin Volz, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
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