Sentence examples for profits, for example from inspiring English sources

The recording companies' profits, for example, have been volatile as the companies adapt to intermediation with varying levels of success.

Profits, for example, were dropping, in part because of huge reinvestment to cover the expansion in sales, but also because China began to overheat in 2007.

They also use their personal experience, including relationships with a company's customers, competitors and suppliers, to make educated judgments about which oil fields are likely to produce future profits, for example, or which product lines are likely to catch on.

Taxes on corporate profits, for example, are passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices or to workers in the form of lower wages.Nor is the argument that an FTT will restrict liquidity particularly compelling.

Any theoretical profits – for example, if the property was to be sold for more than the co-op paid for it – would go to the co-operative movement (this was a condition of the funding they received).

A portion of the investors profits (for example, 20perr cent) is reallocated over to the fund manager.

Profit, for example, is rarely a positive focus for people's effort.

If I made £200,000 profit, for example, she would recommend that I set up two accounts in the Channel Islands, with which I could buy foreign shares.

14) Refraining from the use of nationalized lands belonging to the government or public organizations for the purpose of profiting, for example, through construction projects or establishing commercial, service, or industrial organizations.

Cold, windy days are seen as opportunities for extra profit, for example, because frigid and blustery weather allows more power to flow through lines than their technical rating allows, said James L. Dushaw, the utility-division director of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.

He was noting in a talk to the city council about why not all anti-social behaviour is prosecuted that it is an offence to pick wild berries and then sell them for profit – for example, by using them as filling in homemade apple crumbles and pies for sale at summer fetes.