Sentence examples for make excess from inspiring English sources

The rule would make it impossible for one of the economy's least liked sectors to make excess profits.

Unsurprisingly, the companies deny all charges that they make excess profits and claim they are unfairly targeted by politicians.

The regulator's move came as no surprise from a government that has accused British banks of overcharging their retail customers to make excess profits.

Roaming the country meeting overweight Brits, Yeo investigates the genes that make excess fat more likely, and looks at whether hormonal appetite suppressants might be the future.

Others note that the brains of autistic children are larger than average and that the brain's basic building blocks, called cortical columns, contain many more cells than normal and make excess connections to other cells.

The trouble is, you can't make excess returns based on what everyone knows.

Is American business making excess profits?

Detroit has a second pension fund, for police officers and firefighters, which also made excess payments.

At the very least that must be cause to wonder whether they have been making excess profits, at the expense of the rest of the economy.

To prevent contractors from making "excess profits" off the Korean War, Congress levied a tax on anything over what a company had earned in the "peace" years, from 1946 to 1949.

The banks are accused of making excess profits of as much as £5 billion ($8 billion) a year through a monopoly on the payments system and by chiselling personal and small-business customers.