Sentence examples for despite profits from inspiring English sources
The wooden addition was torn down in 1897 or 1903, and "despite profits, Ricketts became disenchanted with the hotel business and closed his hotel in 1903", though the stone house remained the Ricketts family's summer home.
Despite profits of $14.2 billion $5.1 billionon from its operations in the United States — General Electric did not have to pay any U.S. taxes last year.
Red Hat's shares plunged by over 20%.Intel's shares tumbled despite profits nearly doubling in the latest quarter compared with a year ago, to $1.8 billion.
page B1 AMAZON CAUTIOUS DESPITE PROFITS Amazon, at least, can report a hopeful glimmer in all this economic gloom and doom.
The charity ActionAid accused the company of paying "virtually no corporation tax" despite profits of $123m£83m3m) between 2007 and 2013.
It recently defied calls for restraint by hiking its staff bonus pool by 10 per cent to £2.38 billion despite profits falling by a third and plans to cut thousands of jobs.
See articleBanking shares rose despite profit warnings from a number of big banks.
A few companies, like Starbucks and Reebok International, reduced executive pay despite profit increases and shareholder gains.
[C4.] UBS Chief Cautious Despite Profit Favorable market conditions and a tight grip on costs contributed to a 23percentt leap in profit for the quarter at UBS.
THE ARTS, PAGE E1 Google Falls Despite Profit Google said its fourth-quarter profit rose 82percentto to $372 million, but that was not enough to satisfy investors, who had grown accustomed to explosive growth, and its stock fell 12percentt.
(See: "Gap Shares Rise Despite Profit Warning". ).
