#contracting

I'm like the universe; either expanding or contracting at any given moment. The most that I had put on was about 35, 36 pounds, and I've taken all of that off. ↗

— Sean Astin

#any #contracting #either #expanding #given

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#basis #blessing #considered #contracting #ever

We had the boy's name picked out, but we didn't have a girl's. When he turned out to be a boy, we were so relieved. Literally, in the middle of contracting and pushing, and with my wife being drugged - out and half - lucid, we were still coming up with names. ↗

— Paul Reiser

#boy #coming #contracting #girl #had

An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the confusing and sometimes shadowy practice of government contracting. ↗

— Tom Coburn

#bring #confusing #contract #contracting #database

I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five. ↗

— Dinah Sheridan

#child #contracting #five #i #sickly

I think we should be looking at the defense and seeing where we can actually be more efficient because I think that, you know, sometimes during the contracting process, we lose some efficiencies in that regard. ↗

— Ben Quayle

#because #contracting #defense #during #efficiencies

Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration court, treaties which not only specify the composition of the court, but also its procedure. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#also #arbitration #composition #concluded #conflicts