Sentence examples for somewhat profitable from inspiring English sources

"Japan's low growth and deflation may be partly caused by the corporate segment remaining somewhat profitable and competitive, thus unwilling to take on risks," Mr. Adachi said in a note earlier this year.

Industrywide, the tab for participation arrangements piled up to $3 billion or more last year, by the research company's reckoning, helping push the business of making films, which was somewhat profitable a few years ago, into a loss.

But it is also an important step for AutoNavi as it looks for more ways of commercialising its popular but only somewhat profitable technology.

Ensure that the bar price is less and somewhat profitable than the dust.

Retail banking in Britain will probably become a lot more boring, quite a bit safer and somewhat less profitable.

The other is that China has eliminated its agricultural tax, so farming is somewhat more profitable than before.

And it wanted to replace it with a show that, while somewhat more profitable, has its own aging demographic (only four years separate an average Letterman fan from a Koppel fan) with the same median income ($44,000).

A levy on these financial giants would help by putting a brake on this consolidation — making the largest banks somewhat less profitable and steering investment and other resources into smaller banks, which, if they failed, wouldn't take the rest of us with them.

And although the companies' inability to set prices for big-brand hotel rooms has hurt its profit margins somewhat, analysts said Expedia's highly profitable hotel-and-air vacation package business continues to flourish.

As selling shoes became profitable but somewhat dull, Mr. Roman started pursuing his teenage dream.

Poirot was, by far, Dame Agatha's most prolific and most profitable detective, somewhat to her dismay.