Sentence examples for personally profitable from inspiring English sources

It is hard to tell the straight players from those who cut corners or turn their public positions into personally profitable ones.

This version's new ending persuasively suggests that a contemporary Dr. Stockmann, in a culture in which achievement is measured by moneymaking alone, could bend his views to accommodate a less radical (and more personally profitable) position.

This 'credit with the Queen' also proved personally profitable to her long-standing friends.

While secretly lobbying Gaddafi, Livingstone was also advocating the personally profitable idea of a peaceful exit on CNN.

In this position he had the personally distasteful yet highly profitable task of collecting the hated ship money (a tax to support the Navy imposed by Charles I without Parliamentary approval).

They have more customers than they can personally handle, so it is profitable for them to charge more and lose some business — rather than lose business by being overwhelmed.

To the Editor: Readers of this article may infer that Prof. Ezra F. Vogel accepted censorship of his acclaimed book "Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China" — 650,000 copies of which were sold in China — because doing so was profitable for him personally.

"The fact remains that there are more future opportunities," he said in an e-mail, "figuring out useful and profitable (and perhaps personally fulfilling) solutions to the needs of the 4 billion people living on less than $10/day than there are tweaking the next gadget for consumers living at the tip of the world's economic pyramid.

"The criticism comes, and it's usually addressed to Bob personally, saying "How dare you run a profitable business,'" says Debra Lee, Johnson's second-in-command.

"The criticism comes, and it's usually addressed to Bob personally, saying 'How dare you run a profitable business,'" says Johnson's second-in-command, Debra Lee.

Just that, personally, I didn't have any potentially profitable ideas when I was reading the news about Sandy Hook, but that's my problem, not Josh McClung's.