Sentence examples for empty profit from inspiring English sources

I can't think of anything more dismal than those 54 stories of empty profit; 214 luxury apartments is an insult to the thousands of Londoners who cannot afford a home.

It is about food that is full of empty calories and investments that are full of empty profits.

As it currently stands, there is a significant number of freelance bottle and can collectors circulating the park every afternoon scooping up the empties for profit, and one table suggested that formalizing that system might be worth looking at.

Mr. Pope sides with those who prefer to study shipwrecks, not empty them for profit.

You're going to have to kill me!" The executives did not want to start over, because it would mean the loss of their entire investment, but they also initially rejected Cameron's offer of forfeiting his share of the profits as an empty gesture; they felt that profits would be unlikely.

It protects unscrupulous landlords and property speculators who are keeping properties empty to up their profits.

The earnings docket is virtually empty, but we'll get a profit report from CSK Auto after the close.

The practice is intended to maximize profit by reducing empty seats, but it also means more flights and more congestion and delays.

That would allow companies to "profit from offering empty hope," said Robert Erwin of the Marti Nelson Cancer Foundation, a patient advocacy group.

The film received poor reviews and was described by Bosley Crowther as "a distressingly empty piece;" but, with a profit of $2.5 million, it was one of her biggest box-office successes.

The letter described N.Y.U. as an "empty, bright world brand that profits no one but its managers".