Sentence examples for Material profit from inspiring English sources

And we should look long and hard at the assumptions we breed into our children about acquisition and individual material profit.

He wrote: "Ramdev has been in the business of converting spirituality into material profit … Religion became, in the process, the means for indulging in covetousness.

Meanwhile Alex DeGroote at Peel Hunt said the best option now was for someone to buy Blinkx: Blinkx has delivered another highly material profit warning.

More and more of them attended these schools, for the studies were a good means of social advancement or material profit.

Now I want to hear it will be going after those who review adversely, not for material profit but – which is far worse – in answer to the promptings of uneducated vanity.

According to the older understanding, the "discovery" of the Americas was a great triumph, one in which Columbus played the part of hero in accomplishing the four voyages, in being the means of bringing great material profit to Spain and to other European countries, and in opening up the Americas to European settlement.

Virtue in such cases must be its own reward, or must realize its material profits in the long cast.

The buyout firm that acquired Learning Company, the troubled educational software firm, from Mattel said yesterday that the software maker was now in the black and would generate "material" profits in 2001.

The company said it plans to expand to 200 countries in the next two years, and to earn "material profits" from its operations overseas by 2017.

This July, on the 24th Forbes Cruise for Investors, I was asked how it can be worth more than $200 billion yet never earn material profits?

For many the goal is material gain, but profit is by no means the only motive.