Sentence examples for much less profitable from inspiring English sources

It was a less popular sport then, and much less profitable.

Others have been cutting their corn early to use for feed, a much less profitable venture.

The traditional products remain popular, but they become much less profitable.

Reforms to the world's banking industry may make it only a little safer but much less profitable, says Jonathan Rosenthal.

But such "downcycling" tends to be much less profitable than genuine recycling, and much more vulnerable to price swings.

But the new News Corp. — the print one — will be a very different, and much less profitable, animal.

Many of Creditanstalt's snooty corporate bankers resent being taken over by a much younger and less profitable rival.

For about three years it had been steadily increasing its stake in VW, a much larger yet less profitable carmaker with which it shares a little production.

Diplomats said they expect that strict enforcement of the embargo, which has won broad public support from diamond traders, will make smuggling much less easy and profitable than it has been in the past.

In the 1950s and '60s, when this kind of structure was much less respectable but no less profitable, Riklis' companies squeezed leverage until it screamed for mercy.

If not a spent force, then certainly a much reduced one: smaller, less profitable, with fewer assets, and resources at its command — and dwindling cash reserves (net cash fell to €3.6 billion by the end of Nokia's Q3 2012, down from €4.2 billion in its Q2).