Sentence examples for proved most profitable from inspiring English sources

While Florida won back-to-back titles anchored by a stellar 2004 recruiting class and North Carolina won last season's championship on the back of the four-year forward Tyler Hansbrough, the freshmen proved most profitable at the gate.

Later in 2010, torture for ransom proved most profitable as refugees, most of them Eritrean, were kidnapped in the Eastern Sudan and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, sold to traffickers and then shipped to torture houses in Egypt where captors demand payments of $20,000 to $45,000 for each hostage.

As America's love affair with Phelps finally begins to cool, his every move is going to be captured, scrutinized and criticized until the modern media has managed to mold and shape him into whatever story arc they ultimately choose for him (hint: it will be whichever one proves most profitable).

It was, however, Charles Stratton, a man only 25 inches tall who was discovered by Barnum, that proved to be his most profitable exhibit.

Forty years after the Warner Brothers front-office moguls almost shelved what proved to be the most profitable film in the studio's history up to that point, The Exorcist continues to excite, divide and disturb.

Fire and Fury has – with 10 days of the month to go – already proved to be the most profitable book ever published in January in the UK, and Wolff and Little, Brown have been laughing all the way to the bank.

That meant the most complex and demanding cases would often prove to be the most profitable.

"Because service revenue is priced at a premium, the retail customer is proving to be our most profitable segment," says Balaji.

And it's easy to see why: SUVs have proven to be the most profitable new source of revenue for the automotive industry since the introduction of the V-8 engine.

Before starting his circus, Barnum attracted tens of millions of visitors to his American Museum in New York City to see such "curiosities" as Chang and Eng, conjoined twins connected by a ligament below their breastbones, and General Tom Thumb, a man only 25 inches tall who proved to be Barnum's most profitable exhibit.

Over the past decade, the most ethical and just American companies have also proven themselves to be the most profitable.