Sentence examples for made lucrative from inspiring English sources

Other memory-blessed individuals have made lucrative careers out of their particular skills.

Both Ford and G.M. have made lucrative buyout offers to every unionized employee in the United States.

The Journal has been hiring new reporters and has made lucrative offers to a number of prominent journalists at The Times and elsewhere, mostly unsuccessfully.

He was one of the pioneers of self-financed website releases; more recently he made lucrative deals to give away albums with tabloid newspapers.

Given permission to trade in ports monopolized by the British East India Company, he made lucrative fur transactions in China (1800 17), but his plan to establish a network of fur-trading posts around Astoria (now in Oregon) failed when the British captured the post during the War of 1812.

China made lucrative inroads into Zimbabwe in the wake of Mugabe's decision, in 2000, to "empower" the country's landless black majority by violently divesting the country's white farmers of their land (at the time, they were the backbone of the country's thriving agricultural economy).

Farah demonstrates how war profiteers make lucrative careers out of chaos.

When real estate developers make lucrative offers for parcels of his land, he turns them down.

If you can't cope with harsh criticism, perhaps you should find a less demanding line of work, such as making lucrative speeches to friendly audiences.

He continued to try to make lucrative book deals, even after critics grew dismissive, readers dropped away, and inspiration failed him.

You could almost imagine him making lucrative television shows, as did his father, whose initials he has engraved into his bicep while in Las Vegas.