Sentence examples for common profit from inspiring English sources

The state was managed as a business affair, to the common profit of the ruling families such as the Spinola, Fieschi, Grimaldi, and Doria and generally to the advantage of the whole population.

It is assumed that all members in the chain belong to one owner and share a common profit.

It has been since man crawled out of the slime, and our children, Mr. Beale, will live to see that perfect world, in which there is no war and famine, oppression and brutality -- one vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock, all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused".

(In this paper, we follow Town et al.'s [ 97] definition of a medical group, i.e., an actor in which two or more physicians operate as a partnership, have a common profit center, pool income, pay expenses, and distribute profits to group members, rather than an arrangement in which physicians retain their own income and contribute to common office expenses).

In recent years, Digital's sales have declined, and losses have been as common as profits.

The top large business law firms ("Am Law 100" or "NLJ 250") are perennially obsessed with their respective positions in the pecking order, including the most common metrics (profits per partner, revenue per lawyer, year-over-year growth), as well as qualitative factors (hiring the "best" law school graduates, recruiting the most famous partners).

We're going to be discussing three of the most common--profit margin, return on assets, and return on equity.

Although each has a different market, they all have a common trait: a net profit margin of more than 10%.

The two most common are the profit motive and the anti-GMO (genetically modified organism) motive.

At worst it allows the seizure of common assets for profit.

If there is a common purpose for profit, it is that it benefits all in some measure.