Sentence examples for accrues from inspiring English sources

Instead, an ever larger share of the benefits of growth accrues to owners of capital.

As with music streaming, the greatest benefit for unlimited e-book reading accrues to the aggregators: the firms offering subscriptions and those rights-holders with the biggest pieces of the pie.

Even if their charitable causes are good and no financial benefit accrues to the donor, this argument runs, the rich should help pay for the state.

Much of the gain from the region's booming, innovative economy accrues to landowners who are able to earn rents thanks to real-estate supply limits.

As one example, the lion's share of the iPhone's profits accrues to the owners of the IP, rather than the owners of the machines that make the smartphones.

Because the parliament is democratic, goes the theory, when it accrues more power the EU itself becomes more democratic.

With throttling, all the benefit accrues to others.Nevertheless, Dr Williamson reckons that the threat of viruses is large enough for big companies, and organisations such as universities, to do the decent thing.

Stashing money in mattresses puts it at risk of being stolen and means it neither accrues interest nor gets used more productively through lending, as it would be if it were in a bank.

If the advantage accrues to those who switch more often and especially those who use more than one language with the same people (like Puerto Rican New Yorkers who rapidly switch back and forth between Spanish and English in the same two-person conversation)—then we are left with a refined version of the "fitness" analogy.

In a paper to be published soon in Evolution and Human Behavior, they suggest the advantage accrues not to relatives of the opposite sex, but to those of the same one.

The amount of internet activity that actually shows up in GDP Google's ad sales, for example—significantly understates its contribution to welfare by excluding the consumer surplus that accrues to Google's users.