Sentence examples for had long profited from inspiring English sources

Those who had long profited from the trade stood to lose billions of dollars.

In September, he released a 15-minute video, called "Danger Ahead," that foretold of a coming financial meltdown, during which he plugged his expertise ("one of the best records on Wall Street") and criticized methods of financial engineering he had long profited from, including junk bonds and stock buybacks.

— Drug traffickers have long profited here and in other Texas border towns.

Developers have long profited from making residences out of warehouses, offices and manufacturing spaces.

Americans have long profited from low-cost manufactured goods, especially from Asia.

In one, a miner in Shanxi province confronts his village bosses, who have long profited from selling collective land.

The Taliban have long profited from the opium trade by taxing and providing security for producers and smugglers.

Unless carefully regulated, much of it would disappear into the pockets of corrupt leaders and businesses that have long profited from the global aid industry.

Publishers with an eye for evangelism and for markets have long profited by directing Bibles at niche markets: just-married couples, teenage boys, teenage girls, recovering addicts.

Companies that have long profited from the transformation of the counterculture into the over-the-counter culture are creating products that they hope will help them do that.

A more central question is whether a "new" PRI will dare confront the near monopolies — in energy, telecommunications, finance, cement, food and television — that support its return to power and have long profited from the noncompetitive marketplace.