? The phrase "profit block" can be correct and usable in written English, especially in a business or financial context.
It refers to a barrier or obstacle that prevents a company or individual from making a profit. Example: The new tax regulations proved to be a profit block for small businesses, as they were unable to generate significant profits due to increased expenses. Another example: The economic recession acted as a profit block for many industries, causing them to struggle with declining sales and profits.
The companies, she said, know they can profit from blocking the overhaul.
T cell activation by dendritic cells takes a long time, he says; anthrax kills so fast that it's questionable whether the microbes would even profit from blocking this system.
Moreover, said Turner, ISPs can now favor content creators that give them a share of the profit by blocking traffic that may interfere with the creator's revenue.
As Gizmodo has mapped out, net neutrality exists so that ISPs cannot legally "give preferential treatment to services they directly profit from and block those they don't, all the while charging internet companies like Netflix additional fees for speedier access to consumers".
For maximum profits, it can block Savored from filling reservations during particularly busy times.
"While we are disappointed that the court did not resolve once and for all whether the religious beliefs of religiously affiliated non-profit employers can block women's seamless access to birth control, we are confident in the final outcome," Gretchen Borchelt, a vice-president with the National Women's Law Center, said in a call with reporters.
Maybe it's time for individual investors so start thinking hard about technology too, if only to figure out the answers to these questions: What does the world look like when the lucrative profits of underwriting, block trading, institutional handling, and order flow are controlled by bits and bytes?
Instead of language chastising consumers for their selfishness, instead of spurious accusations of secret profit behind ad-block technologies, the advertising industry needs to recognize that it has built no good will, that its failure to stop and active decision to escalate this problem is the direct cause of consumers' actions.
A power company avid for profits can stubbornly block laws to limit carbon emissions.
But except for the Times, the media has failed to cover Obama's deal with the for-profit hospitals to block a public option.
