The council previously had a number of small contracts covering issues such as road maintenance and street lighting, and the HESPE contract brought all those elements under one large contract.

BBC: Wallasey Town Hall

High on her list of priorities now, says Josiah, is the introduction of comprehensive protection for helpers, along the lines of guidelines for employers used in Singapore, and incorporating elements of a standard contract drawn up by the Philippines Department of Labor and Employment.

CNN: Malaysia's Secret Vice

They blur together elements that exist apart, or they break elements into pieces, bind up the world, contract it into hard little pellets of perception.

NEWYORKER: History of a Disturbance

Those are the facts necessary to satisfy the elements of a claim for, say, breach of contract: promise, consideration, failure to perform, causation and damages, or the requirements of an affirmative defense: impossibility of performance, for instance.

FORBES: Relevance and Strategy