Sentence examples for element of profit from inspiring English sources

"The removal of the element of profit from war would materially remove the danger of more war," he said.

The life insurers have booked decent gainst since the middle of last year, and the suggestion was that there was an element of profit taking.

"Markets move with more speed and wit than political and institutional discussions because there is always the element of profit, of enterprise [in them].

To encourage competition for the management contract, officials at the Department of Energy plan to increase the management fee, to allow an element of profit.

Jenkin has said that he was not aware of the introduction of a family member rule in July 2006, which says "you must avoid any arrangement which may give rise to an accusation that you — or someone close to you — is obtaining an element of profit from public funds".

But the counter argument is that it removes the element of profit in franchises that are heavily subsidised by the taxpayer.

In any referendum on whether to choose a different path, there will inevitably be an element of profit-and-loss calculation.

The book, a history of efforts to regulate the workweek, is "Moments Are the Elements of Profit," by Prof. Marc Linder of the University of Iowa.

The problem is NP-hard, since any instance of KP, having r elements of profit p j and weight w j (j=1,…,r) and capacity c, is equivalent to the instance of MCKP obtained by setting n=2r,p j =w j =0 for j=r+1,…,2r and N k ={k,r+k}for k=1,…,r.

Cf. 17 U.S.C. 504(b) (the infringer is required to prove elements of profits attributable to other than the infringed work).

The practice of flexible budgeting has been adopted widely by factory management to facilitate the evaluation of cost performance at different volume levels and has also been extended to other elements of the profit plan.