Sentence examples for speculative purposes from inspiring English sources

"There is no acquisiton of land for speculative purposes," he said.

Schlosstein picked out the growth of credit-default swaps, a type of derivative often used purely for speculative purposes.

Of course, most people and firms can't put down a hundred dollars and borrow a thousand dollars for speculative purposes.

And secondly, because of this private debt, you have a bubble, which is constantly inflated through money coming into this country for speculative purposes".

Things can get a lot more complicated and 'exotic', and derivatives can be used for damaging speculative purposes, but in essence, many derivative transactions are pretty straightforward and potentially quite useful".

According to Keynes, the public holds money for three purposes: to have on hand for ordinary transactions, to keep as a precaution against extraordinary expenses, and to use for speculative purposes.

"The X-Files" (Fox, Fridays), which is the work of Chris Carter, employs scare tactics — blood spitting from a face slapped by an invisible hand, a locust-like plague infesting a courtroom — but it doesn't let them upstage its speculative purpose.

Dedicated to yet another rumor over the weekend that Mike Bloomberg might run for president, and all the media pundits who are so desperate to fill a 24-hour news cycle that they'll keep pushing every speculative plausibility for the purpose of keeping the story about how they have no idea what will happen in the election interesting.

So I hope you'll forgive me, for purposes of my speculative argument here, if I leave dynein aside and focus just on myosin and kinesin, and where did they come from, and why don't bacteria have them?

A few of the flats, a member of staff reports, are entirely and permanently empty, Mary Celeste homes which serve no purpose whatsoever beyond speculative investment.

"A lot of structured products were speculative in nature, with questionable purpose in a private-banking context," says Mr Jaecklin.These structured products can quickly turn into dead money if markets move against them, with clients locked in for years or able to redeem only at fire-sale prices.