The author says Lead Belly's contract with the Lomaxes' prevented him from being represented by anyone else for five years.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

In nineteen twenty, the Red Sox sold Babe Ruth's contract to the famous New York Yankees baseball team.

VOA: special.2011.03.27

The European Union predicts the German economy, Europe's largest, is likely to contract by 5.4 percent this year, a larger decline than the EU average.

VOA: standard.2009.05.04

A source of anger for many lawmakers at the hearing was a U.S.government contract for a so-called "virtual fence" monitoring system along the nearly 3200-kilometer U.S.-Mexico border.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

Senator Roland Burris also blasted the program, and the U.S.government's contract with Boeing for the work, during this exchange with Customs and Border Protection Agency commissioner Alan Bersin.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

Earlier this month CIA director Panetta banned the use of contract - that is,non-employee - interrogators and ordered the agency's network of secret prisons to be shut down.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

He said he and U.S.President Barack Obama agree that whatever new government emerges will have to make a new contract with the international community and its neighbors to build its army, take tough action on corruption, create a more inclusive political process, reach out to moderate elements of the insurgency and stronger control of local affairs.

VOA: standard.2009.10.14