Sentence examples for lucrative custom from inspiring English sources

So Panama is increasingly missing out on some lucrative custom.

But it is not just for their oil and for their lucrative custom, for as long as they can pay, that we court Saudi Arabia.

Tourists have few options but to load their spoils onto planes for one final journey, providing the flag-carrier with lucrative custom beneath the passenger deck as well as above it.

Since 2001, American and other Western officials have tried to buttress the central government under Mr. Karzai as a means of securing Afghanistan by weakening powerful regional warlords and bringing lucrative customs revenues into the state coffers.

Principal among these are Ismail Khan, from Herat in the west, and Abdul Rashid Dostum, the Uzbek general from the north, who control vast stretches of the countryside, not to mention the lucrative customs posts at the borders.

One of Benin's main, albeit underexploited, trade assets is the deepwater port at Cotonou, which serves as a sea outlet for the Republic of Niger and as a secondary port for Nigeria and thus holds a potential to earn lucrative customs duties.

But observers are not expecting the countries' lucrative customs posts to be dismantled.America's Congress approved tougher sanctions on Iran, targeting foreign companies that supply the Revolutionary Guards or deal with the country's energy sector.Stranger than fictionTwo brothers who allegedly hired a hit man to kill Rodrigo Rosenberg, a lawyer in Guatemala, handed themselves in to authorities.

Toonimo, a startup that says it can make websites more engaging and lucrative by adding custom animations, is announcing that it has raised $2.5 million in funding.

I regard their opposition as somewhat suspect because most of these lawyers and consultants do a lucrative business in custom tailoring corporate by-laws to be resistant to shareholder demands.

Grossly self-important, she views her patients as fodder for the Vag At (vaginal atrophy) research that she hopes will make her reputation and thereby attract custom to the lucrative private clinic she intends to launch.

Mr. Gbagbo's access to state accounts at West Africa's central bank has already been frozen, but he still controls taxes, customs and the lucrative oil and cocoa sectors.