"And your lawyer will charge a lot less for reviewing the terms than drawing up a contract."

It's a good idea to get advice from your solicitor when drawing up a contract with a consultant.

When growing up, I thought of marriage as being very official, drawing up a contract.

Once my father got a side of lamb for drawing up a contract for a client.

(She takes out a piece of paper and starts drawing up a contract.)

"Ned, suppose you get in touch with Provard and see about drawing up a contract."

Consider drawing up a contract or service level agreement to ensure that you receive good service from them.

'We might be drawing up a contract.'

See the pages in this guide on choosing an environmental consultant and drawing up a contract with an environmental consultant.

Procurement's drawing up a contract now."

But no matter - the U.N. in New York solicits bids before drawing up a contract.

When drawing up a contract with an overseas agent you have got to be aware of potentially different interpretations of contract law across borders.

For further information see the page on drawing up a contract for your purchase in our guide on how to negotiate the right deal with suppliers.

However, the potential for a gift tax could be avoided, he said, by initially drawing up a contract that assigns any future increase in value to the adult child.

"When drawing up a contract, you should say that you want proof that the contractor has paid the subcontractors before you pay him," Ms. Keane said.

The whole business of drawing up a contract was nothing but an impressive ceremony without any legal basis - it was just meant to awe the natives into doing business with us."

He said there were myriad items to deal with when drawing up a contract, such as asbestos problems and lead paint in the home, a leaking oil tank, water potability and certificates of occupancy.

Other charges, she says, are for upkeep of the building (usually about $50 a month) and for drawing up a contract (about 2 percent of the total rent for duration of the lease).

Despite Sherrick's growing drug addiction, Raynoma kept the singer's drama away from the people she dealt with at Warner Bros who were in the process of drawing up a contract for the singer and their jointly owned production company.

In a tactic that officials hope to employ at underused, underfinanced parks throughout the city, the Parks Department is in the final stages of drawing up a contract to lease half of the park for 20 years to a private company.

"If you're drawing up a contract, the ability to see every foreseeable danger is something that goes along with pessimism, but it's also what makes a good lawyer," Dr. Martin Seligman, a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, said.

Once again, over and above the question of procedures - and this is crucial, in my opinion - if we do not manage to establish a constructive and fruitful dialogue between the Union's three main political institutions, with a view to drawing up a contract of government, how is Europe to be built?

I want to know everything I own, especially anything Personal, like those swords of his, that I can use to make him help me - And I want you to start drawing up a contract that states that if he helps me to my satisfaction, everything will be returned to him.