Sentence examples for hitherto profitable from inspiring English sources

Ford's European factories are among those suffering as sales in the big and hitherto profitable Russian market are falling because of Western sanctions over Ukraine.

It has been flat or falling in every important region except Japan, where it has benefited from generous tax breaks on hybrid vehicles, in which it is stronger than its domestic rivals.In America, Toyota's largest and hitherto most profitable market, its share has stayed at around 16.5%, hardly a brilliant performance given Detroit's long, dark night of the soul.

Jini out of the bottle Exciting times Look, no wires Objection ReprintsThere are now serious doubts in Japan whether even Fujitsu, hitherto the most profitable of the firms, will be back in profit this year.

"The Gates Foundation is, in effect, preparing the ground for them to access new profitable markets in hitherto closed-off developing countries, especially in Africa.

Ballance, who hitherto had not enjoyed a profitable time since his hundred in the champion county match in Abu Dhabi during March, battled his way to a well-constructed, unbeaten 106; his century, from 202 balls, reached with his fifteenth and sixteenth boundaries taken from successive deliveries from Tim Murtagh.

Hitherto insipid, Arsenal awoke.

From the stylebook: heretofore, hitherto.

Diplomacy, hitherto fruitless, is intensifying.

Hitherto, the EU did not formally exist.

Most were hitherto dormant Socialist supporters.

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