Sentence examples for profitable to pay from inspiring English sources

But this market depends on the corn price being so high as to make it profitable to pay the import tariff.

(Just last week Ferrari's parent, Fiat, whose automaking unit is losing money, said it would sell shares in Ferrari, which has generally been profitable, to pay debts).

From a cash flow basis, many health insurance carriers find it more profitable to pay for medicines, sleep apnea equipment, doctor and hospital visits and things associated with obesity than to write a large, one-time check for weight loss surgery.

The mines ought to be profitable, and to pay their workers well.

A handful of firms, such as Electricité de France, are big and profitable enough to pay for new reactors out of regular income.

They are starved for revenue and face citizenry who see inequity in a system that enables some highly profitable corporations to pay far lower tax rates than workers.

After his father's fish-processing business, which had been profitable enough to pay the fees for the local private school, fell on hard times, Gove remained at Robert Gordon's college only because of a scholarship.

Instead, Mr. Lutnick said in an interview, Cantor ended 2001 profitable enough to pay for the first of 10 years of promised health insurance for the families, with cash left over to distribute in mid-February as the first installment on a $100,000 minimum gift pledged to each family.

Yet the overall inherited strategy of C4 remains intact: it needs a raft of profitable programmes to pay for the unprofitable public service ones, news, current affairs, education (the current switch to online in this genre is being reviewed), most of its drama apart from Shameless and Hollyoaks, and film, plus some comedy.

"People thought he was crazy," says Luca. "The Communist Party was still strong, and the company wasn't profitable enough to pay its debts".

He imagines, however, that CCTV is "profitable enough" to pay for its new headquarters, a $1.2 billion cantilevered glass-and-steel arch designed by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas that's under construction.