Sentence examples for clear payoff from inspiring English sources

Buying computers and software for electronic health records, Dr. Wilson said, would mean a big cost with no clear payoff.

More to the point, the ads were a welcome change in that they featured intrigue that built to a clear payoff.

For publishers, the strategy has a clear payoff: to increase the value of print books and build a healthy, diverse marketplace that includes brick-and-mortar bookstores and is not dominated by Amazon and e-books.

That preparation has a clear payoff.

There was a clear payoff from recent efforts to improve preparedness.

Pressed for time, stressed by their circumstances, residents made it clear that if they did help out in their communities, they would want to see a clear payoff.

Mr. Obama and his aides made several strategic decisions this summer that had clear payoffs, yet also carried some risks that could play out in the general election.

On the flip side, fostering a more globally connected, progressive black community has been one of the clearest payoffs of Afropunk's decision to expand their audience beyond Brooklyn's punk scene.

For the record, Nureyev was bisexual (Xenia was not the last of the women), but most of his heterosexual contacts seem to have had a clear practical payoff.

He conceded that evolution can explain our niceness in instances like kindness to kin, where the niceness has a clear genetic payoff, but he drew the line at "high altruism," acts of entirely disinterested kindness.

Dr. May acknowledges, though, that he has embarked on a bit of a fishing expedition with no clear endpoint or payoff.