Sentence examples for fleeting gain from inspiring English sources

For each to walk away with even £50m in its back pocket would only represent a fleeting gain, compared with those that might have been accumulated in the longer term.

After a fleeting gain just after the cut was announced at noon on Feb. 6, the benchmark Financial Times-Stock Exchange 100-share index fell about 2percentt over the rest of the afternoon, and it remains at about that level.

Kamensky's lively account resists parallels with contemporary speculative debacles, as she recounts a life of "big gambles" and "fleeting gains".

Cognitive improvements from exercise appear to be modest, but are still greater than any of the small, fleeting gains yet observed in studies of gaming, he says.

They know people who have either been murdered or kidnapped for fleeting political gain.

The signs have been far too fleeting to gain any sure sense of what is going on.

But even larger and mightier nations such as the United States must contend with the threats posed by the new Chinese imperialism — and they are doing so from a morally weakened position if they set aside cherished and lasting values, including human rights and democracy, in favor of fleeting economic gains.

(Jon Pareles) ★ The Chapin Sisters (Friday) This trio, from Los Angeles, gained fleeting notoriety with a ghostly, acoustic cover of Britney Spears's 2004 single "Toxic".

(Jon Pareles) THE CHAPIN SISTERS (Monday) This trio, from Los Angeles, gained fleeting notoriety with a ghostly, acoustic cover of Britney Spears's 2004 single "Toxic".

The huge gain proved fleeting -- the stock has since fallen below its price before the announcement -- and many fund managers and brokers remain lukewarm about it.

But the currency's gains were fleeting and had been had been erased entirely by the afternoon in Moscow.