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
• When week by week, contract by contract, the costs went up and up, hardly anybody noticed.
  — Kyle Whitmire, al, 27 Sep. 2021
• The housing department has long been staffed by contract workers.
  — Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2023
• The Ravens’ training camp is being headlined by contract squabbles.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2022
• 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
• 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
• Methodist University had their site hacked by contract cheaters but acted quickly.
  — Derek Newton, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The program is established and enforced by a private agreement — not legislation — and enforceable by contract law.
  — CNN, 17 June 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Agricultural applications, by contract, use gallons of this product per acre.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Mar. 2021
• 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
• 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
• For Emergent, the revenue growth is being largely driven by contract development and manufacturing business.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021
• 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

Last Updated: 6 Aug 2024