Sentence examples for profitable marriage from inspiring English sources

It was a profitable marriage.

However, she was no longer a certifiable virgin and it was thought that this would impair her chances of making a good, profitable marriage.

Many believe that the opera's story — about the struggles of a financially ruined count in 19th-century Vienna to arrange a profitable marriage for his older daughter — loses focus in the later acts and trades in superfluous comedy.

Seth Abraham, who helped officiate at the profitable marriage of boxing and cable television during two decades at Time Warner and its subsidiary Home Box Office, has been named executive vice president and chief operating officer of Madison Square Garden.

Mr Clark reckons that once a buyer pays a premium of more than about 40%, the chances of a profitable marriage fall significantly.Although many of the one-third of deals that do succeed happen during the first two phases of M&A waves when the premiums paid are lower, it is still possible to find astute dealmaking well into the later phases, which together last around five to six years.

Even when he rejects them, she recognizes her daughter's genuine love and will put the kibosh on a far more profitable marriage to a planter if only Cable will follow his heart.

LONDON — After a decade of a profitable but contentious marriage, BP and its billionaire Russian partners are headed for a divorce.

I'd successfully built a profitable business as an artist, making Jewish marriage contracts and other wedding documents, but 15 years of making art to client specifications led to burnout.

We know you're only in it for the money, but it's the moral, patriotic, and profitable thing to do! It's a marriage made in marketing heaven..

Mate selection is a market, and marriages occur only if they are profitable for both parties involved.

Knowing how to negotiate UK immigration rules would later prove to be profitable, when she and the Valujevs began organising sham marriages.