Sentence examples for profit himself from inspiring English sources

Mr. Swig may not see any of that profit himself.

Being a host, Browner says, is all about self-interest: it's a sleight of hand in which the host, while pretending to gratify the needs of his guests, is actually reaping all the emotional, political and social profit himself.

A judge hearing his bail application recently described the state's case as weak and said accusations that Mr. Mangoma had been involved in a crooked fuel contract may have been an effort to provide a solution to an emergency fuel shortage, rather than to profit himself.

He says he's not looking to profit himself — saying he would donate any winnings to charities that aim to combat fraud.

It is clear he profited himself and he will now pay a fine of $2.1 million and face a jail term.

Even though he didn't keep the profits himself, using them instead to get arms for the Contras, North did this at the very time President Reagan and Vice President Bush were leading our nation's "War on Drugs"!

He has 18 unproduced plays which he is willing to see presented at no profit to himself.

It is the relation of the trustee to the estate which prevents his dealing in such way as to make a personal profit for himself.

Jean Peyrelevade, chief executive of Crédit Lyonnais, who has steered the bank back into profit, professes himself wary of mergers for the next couple of years.

Like most of the British aristocracy at that.time, he believed in sinecures, patronage, lush pas tures of profit for himself and his brothers.

Lawrence DiCristina ran the warehouse where the games took place — that was not in dispute — taking 5 percent of each night's pot to cover the cost of his staff and profit for himself.