Sentence examples for petty profits from inspiring English sources

But, as a man of vision, he would never jeopardize his reputation for petty profits, since by doing so he'd smash his rice bowl.

"It used to be that you were considered a success if you did something really creative and turned a profit," Mr. Petty said.

They include do-it-yourself environmentalists worried about their carbon footprints, warring waste management firms trying to beat each other on the sly, and petty thieves who are profiting from the oil's rising value on the black market.

Jamaica's political parties have been linked with gang leaders, who profit from large and petty extortion, corrupt business contracts and the drug trade, since the 1970s.

But entwined in the net of familiar family battles about tradition versus profit, wayward sons, difficult daughters and petty complaints, we find raw, wrenching, eye-opening evocations of human dissatisfaction, egocentricity and determination.

Since coming here last month, he said, he has averaged $3 a day in profit -- a huge sum in a country where petty merchants might clear $7 a month.

Walmart pursues poor people for petty sums that seem grotesque when compared to the great wealth of the family that profits most from Walmart.

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