Sentence examples for more profitable activity from inspiring English sources

By lowering rates, the Fed cut banks' costs, making lending a more profitable activity for them.

Wild's urban career really began as a "thief-taker", but this was cover for his more profitable activity as a fence of stolen goods.

Except perhaps to thank the officer for his diligence, not forgetting the detective he liaised with and crime desk advisers – for all were dragged into Griffin's wild goose chase, when they might otherwise have engaged in other more profitable activity.

A young, rebellious and ultimately successful faction aspired to more profitable activities, notably the kidnapping of northern Italian businessmen.

Cantor Fitzgerald will split off its original business of person-to-person sales to focus on more profitable activities like institutional equity sales and trading.

Although there is little new money to help the farmers directly, this comes on top of the £1.6 billion set aside to help farmers diversify into other more profitable activities, as well as into what is now called "countryside stewardship .The rural white paper will encourage employment in the countryside.

Using a series of laboratory experiments in a South African setting, this paper examines whether the provision of a framed index insurance product induces individuals to opt into riskier but potentially more profitable activities.

For the purpose of this article the all-encompassing definition by Beauregard and Holcomb ([1981]) will be adopted who argue that inner-city revitalisation is investment to remodel or rebuild a portion of the urban environment to accommodate more profitable activities and expand opportunities for consumption, particularly retail and housing for middle- and upper- income households.

And Wall Street is urging them into more profitable, but riskier activities.

Professor Sung-Yoon Lee, a specialist on North Korea at Tufts University, Boston, told me that other – presumably more profitable – money-making activities "include money laundering, smuggling and drug dealing – the restaurants are a new and comparatively benign form of generating funds".

It is a convenient, endlessly repeated cycle and a façade that covers up their far more profitable, behind the scenes criminal activities.