Sentence examples for sinking profit from inspiring English sources

The sale, scheduled to close March 31, amounts to a lifeline for the company, which entered negotiations at a time of profound weakness; it was facing a costly shareholder lawsuit, sinking profit margins and increased foreign competition.

This shift is part of De Beers's overall attempt to rescue its sinking profits.

If growth and trade stumble while shipping lines are piling on extra capacity, the result could be empty holds, plunging shipping rates and rapidly sinking profits.

The company has faced a series of problems lately, from expensive laptop battery recalls to sinking profits and a failure to win back the portable music market from Apple's iPod.

That will sink profits but offer opportunities for a strong player looking to acquire assets cheaply.

Parents are sinking their profits back into the market to help their children into the game.

In the face of those challenges, Coupe will be under pressure to build profits without the benefit of beginning his tenure with the kind of "kitchen sink" profits-hacking that his predecessor undertook.

Last year, Mr. Sidiqi said, he made a fateful business decision, deciding to sink his profits into the purchase of a couple dozen more hydraulic lift platforms at $22,000 apiece, because the profits in renting them were so high.

He sunk the profits from it (along with a five-figure loan from his friend Bill Cosby) into "Sweetback".

It's one thing if a bottomless money well like Google wants to sink its profits into Project Glass, its own wearable-computing initiative.

They sunk the profits into another house and another, often living in the homes they were renovating early on, he said.