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How to use the word contracted in a Sentence?

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Due to the significant changes to the macro environment of the property sector in China since the second half of 2021 and the impact of Covid-19, Shimao Group Holdings Ltd. has experienced a noticeable decline in its contracted sales in recent months, which is expected to continue in the near term until the property sector in China stabilizes.

Shimao Tower

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think that's what people have forgotten : Just because something is a little less likely in a given person to cause severe disease, there are so many more people who've contracted this infection that you're going to have a lot of people who are ill.

Stephen Threlkeld

Found on CNN
2 years ago

California, when it contracted with SKDKnickerbocker, engaged in microtargeting of voters, to me, that's what a political firm would do. Do we think they were microtargeting Republican voters?

James Comer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

With this decision the court rightly recognized that yesterday’s ‘front line heroes’ in dealing with COVID cannot suddenly be treated as disease-carrying villains and kicked to the curb by the command of a state health bureaucracy, some of these plaintiffs contracted COVID while treating patients, recovered, and were allowed to return to work with the same protective measures that were good enough for the 18 months that they were the heroes in the battle against the virus. There is no ‘science’ to show that these same measures are suddenly inadequate – especially when they are allowed for those with medical exemptions.

Thomas More

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The latest surveys suggest that China’s economy contracted (in August) as virus disruptions weighed heavily on services activity. Industry also continued to come off the boil as supply chain bottlenecks worsened and demand softened.

Julian Evans-Pritchard

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

All of my clients continue to be committed to fighting this unjust policy, what is shocking is that many of my clients were on the front line treating COVID-positive patients at Texas Methodist Hospital during the height of the pandemic. As a result, many of them contracted COVID-19. As a thank you for their service and sacrifice, Methodist Hospital awards them a pink slip and sentences them to bankruptcy.

Jared Woodfill

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Employment should not be conditioned upon whether you will agree to serve as a human guinea pig, what is shocking is that many of my clients were on the front line treating COVID-positive patients at Houston Methodist Hospital during the height of the pandemic. As a result, many of them contracted COVID-19. As a thank you for their service and sacrifice, Houston Methodist Hospital awards them a pink slip and sentences them to bankruptcy.

Jared Woodfill

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The government completed its unprecedented slaughter of 13 human beings tonight by killing Dustin Higgs, a Black man who never killed anyone, on Martin Luther King’s birthday, there was no reason to kill him, particularly during the pandemic and when he, himself, was sick with Covid that he contracted because of these irresponsible, super-spreader executions.

Shawn Nolan

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The trailer was abandoned sometime yesterday by the driver of a trucking company contracted to move the vehicle for the Guard.

The Nebraska Highway Patrol

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If everyone contracted National Institute of Allergy, even with the relatively high percentage of people without symptoms... a lot of people are going to die, anthony Fauci look at the United States of America with our epidemic of obesity as it were. With the number of people with hypertension. With the number of people with diabetes. If everyone got infected, the death toll would be enormous and totally unacceptable.

Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Let us wish our hardworking minister for health, Kwaku Agyeman Manu, a speedy recovery from the virus, which he contracted in the line of duty.

Nana Akufo-Addo

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I believe the main reason for numerous hospitals having far lower hospitalized patient counts with the virus was due to the fact the majority of people who contracted the infection, did not require hospitalization, either they were asymptomatic, or their symptoms were not life-threatening and could be carefully managed quarantined at home.

David Samadi

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

They might have unknowingly contracted these pathogens and recovered or only had a few body cells infected.

Dawn Zimmerman

Found on CNN
3 years ago

In some patients, it looks like people who had the disease but now recovered have kind ofthese sort of low antibodies levels, but we dont know if thats a consistent result across everybody thats contracted the virus so far, so, we need to learn more about how the virus affects people and how people are affected by that infection before we can see too much about how that impacts vaccine design.

Kate Broderick

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We are really hoping that we don't have anyone right now who has contracted the disease. And if that is the case, we will be moving then to some of our quarantine facilities.

Omogolo Taunyane

Found on CNN
4 years ago

When combined with other symptoms, people with loss of smell and taste appear to be three times more likely to have contracted COVID-19 according to our data, and should therefore self-isolate for seven days to reduce the spread of the disease.

Tim Spector

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We've contracted to have a mobile app and a website developed that everybody would have to fill in that would go directly to the CDC with that information and we're moving forward with that.

President Donald Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

As more than 4,000 people in the state have been encouraged to self-quarantine, a Queens man who drives for taxi or ride-hailing services tested positive after showing up to a St. Johns Episcopal Hospital, which prompted 40 doctors and nurses to self-quarantine, meaning the staff will have to be replaced in the meantime, ABC 14 reports. MAJOR UNIVERSITIES CLOSE CLASSROOMS AMID CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK Cuomo complained, however, that many New Yorkers are not following the self-quarantine requirements, but hesays thestate of emergency declaration will free up $ 30 millionused for testing and the purchase of protective gear for healthcare workers. The governor warned storescould lose their licenses for price gouging items like hand sanitizer, one he said was selling it for $ 80 per bottle. Cuomo, who earlier described the virus as like a flu on steroids, also emphasized that more people are dying from the fluthan dying from coronavirus. In this March 3, 2020, file photo, Metropolitan Transportation Authority worker sanitizes surfaces at the Coney Island Yard, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. ( AP) Metropolitan Transportation Authority worker referenced a New Rochelle lawyer, who commuted to work in Midtown via Metro-North before Metropolitan Transportation Authority worker fell ill and became the states second case earlier in the week. Since then, the mans wife and two of his children, a 14-year-old daughterand 20-year-old son, have tested positive, as did a neighbor who drove him to the hospital. CLICK HERE FOR COMPLETE CORONAVIRUS COVERAGE The patient is believed to have contracted the virus in Westchester County and not through travel. Multiple members of The Young Israel of New Rochelle synagogue, where the man worships, have also tested positive. CORONAVIRUS CONFIRMED CASES AND FATALITIES, STATE BY STATE Cuomo said the state is reconsidering how to address the quarantine period for people in Westchester County who are quarantined after coming in contact with people who have tested positive, to apply to their last contact with other people. The quarantine period is typically 14 days after last contact. WHAT STATES HAVE DECLARED CORONAVIRUS EMERGENCIES ? Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont announced a second New York state resident who works in the state testing positive for the virus. This most recent case of another New York resident who works in Connecticut testing positive for COVID-19 shows us what we already know coronavirus is here and viruses dont stop at state borders.

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We want to make sure -- and the President's made this clear to me, we want to make sure that people that are treating people that have contracted the coronavirus have the protective gear, the masks and the gloves and we're working very energetically to accomplish that.

The President

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Use of contracted health care providers is one way IHS works to ensure access to comprehensive, quality health care for American Indians and Alaska Natives, in recent years, improving access and quality of health care has been a top priority for the agency, requiring additional investments in staffing.

Brandeis University

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Encouraging the spread of an acute infectious disease in a community demonstrates a callous disregard for the health and safety of friends, family, neighbors, and unsuspecting members of the general public, a person who has contracted chickenpox can be infectious for up to 2 days before experiencing the rash that is associated with the virus.

Northern Kentucky

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Upon accepting a referral ... the law does not provide an agency with discretion to refuse to provide the accepted child or individual with state-contracted foster care case management or adoption services that conflict with its sincerely held religious beliefs.

Dana Nessel

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

While the products themselves are more iterative than revolutionary — same basic design — Apple's strategy in raising the spec ceiling should prove to be a prudent one, since 2015, the entire all-in-one category has contracted each year. A continued shift toward mobility has been a primary inhibitor for this form factor, but options and economics play a large role as well.

Linn Huang

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Today, Lake Turkana gets about 90 % of its water from the SW Ethiopian highlands via the Omo River, and the remaining 10 % from the western Kenyan highlands via the Turkwel and Kerio Rivers. During times past, rainfall in all these areas fluctuated, and Lake Turkana expanded and contracted as weather systems changed.

Elisabeth Hildebrand

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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