Sentence examples for a source of rent from inspiring English sources

Every policy is a scam, every regulation a source of rent (see article).Freed from kleptocrats, Nigeria could be an African giant.

These disputes were animated by local expectations that potential external interests in land as conservation enclaves or tourist business ventures would become a source of rent extraction.

And for decades the program has virtually guaranteed landlords a steady source of rent and a modest profit.

While Kim continued to toil away at the ad agency so that the couple would have a source of income, Scott rented a small space and a mixer, where he began to make samples that he could bring around to possible customers.

This is good for the landlord as well as the tenants, giving them a source of more stable and longer rents.

First of all, homeownership provides a source of income (the so-called imputed rent); especially in later life, homeownership is found to offer protection against poverty, as an income buffer in case of need (Castles 1998; Conley and Gifford 2006).

Landowners in such circumstances use their private information as a source of market power to extract informational rents from conservation agents.

Vlad Shmunis, the firm's Ukraine-born founder, says it wanted to be near another big university that could be a source of smart employees.Soaring salaries and extortionate rents in big tech centres encourage start-ups to hire elsewhere.

Consequently, occupational rents serve as a source of de facto political power that one can potentially transform into de jure political power.

Pews were rented to provide a source of income for the church and the whole was arranged in "rigid social order" with the poor occupying the free seats.

She used some of this money to buy a condo in Anchorage; she and her husband rented it out as a source of income.