The economy has stopped contracting.
Employment is still contracting throughout the world.
With extraordinarily acute vision, "you'd see it expanding and contracting."
With demand in major markets contracting, China's export growth is unlikely to recover soon.
To make the shaft turn, the muscles work in concert, rhythmically contracting, one pair after another.
Outside NASA and aerospace contracting circles, few people seemed to notice.
In some cases, entire industries have been contracting and will continue to shrink.
For an agreement to be a valid contract, the contracting parties must have legal capacity to enter into transactions.
THE hotel provides free mosquito repellent and closes its pool bar before dusk to prevent guests from contracting malaria.
Pre-existing illnesses, such as symptomatic HIV infections and measles, also increase a child's risk of contracting pneumonia.
As long as a single child remains infected with polio, children in all countries are at risk of contracting the disease.
The logic seems flawless, as does the contracting out of labor such as insurance claims handling to freelance workers with terminals in their own home.
With the announcement, the government raised the bird flu alert to "serious," meaning there is a risk of contracting the disease within the territory.
The contracting parties shall perform their respective obligations in accordance with the terms of the contract and may not arbitrarily alter or rescind the contract.
It says the monsoon season will soon begin and children, many of whom are malnourished, are at great risk of contracting water borne and other diseases.
While aliens may arrive to eat, enslave or attack us, the report adds that people might also suffer from being physically crushed or by contracting diseases carried by the visitors.
Between 2006 and 2008, the introduction of the special contracting system contributed to the successful recruitment of health workers in remote and rural regions and the reopening of health outposts.
No, but that didn't stop William Hill offering 7/2 odds on him contracting malaria, making him the favourite celeb to be the next to catch this fashionable, often fatal, disease.
