Sentence examples for insufficient return from inspiring English sources

Critics say Africa's second-biggest oil producer got a raw deal and is selling to China at around $60 a barrel, well below global prices, with infrastructure alone an insufficient return.

"If lending hasn't grown at the same rate as savings, which seems likely, Investec is probably sitting on surplus cash earning an insufficient return to pay its competitive savings rate".

Opponents argue that the industry has had long enough to wean itself from the subsidy and, with wind representing a small percentage of total electricity generation, the taxpayers' investment has yielded an insufficient return.

An important financial impediment is insufficient return of investment.

Hurdles and bottlenecks are well known eg, small numbers of patients, the complexity of developing targeted agents and their biomarkers for selected patients, limitations of US and EU regulations for paediatric medicines, insufficient return on investment, and the global economic crisis facing drug companies.

For most healthcare companies, a profit of $38/month per 100 patients would be an insufficient return on capital for them to pursue this business.

Morgan Stanley is cutting fixed-income staff, some of whom were hired relatively recently, after years of declining revenue and insufficient returns.

The sale was considered a success by the Brazilian government, which had expressed disappointment after foreign banks -- Citibank, FleetBoston, HSBC and Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria of Spain -- pulled out of the auction last week, citing the prospect of insufficient returns.

In future, most employees will be offered defined-contribution plans instead, meaning that they, not the employers, will shoulder the risk that their investments will produce insufficient returns for their retirement.

They feel victimized by what the legions of brokers earn, and the mega-bucks accruing to Goldman Sachs partners, while their own 401Ks and IRA's are lethargic, or go up and down the roller coaster, with insufficient returns a decade later.

The Commission on AIDS in Asia found that almost 90percentt of all investment in prevention went to areas with insufficient returns [ 20].