Sentence examples for sufficiently profitable from inspiring English sources

It didn't before the downturn and it certainly won't now, because social housing isn't sufficiently profitable.

Until the mines of Potosí ceased to be sufficiently profitable and the government pulled out, its tin provided the Bolivian government with most of its revenues.

"Universal banking has the advantage that a sufficiently profitable or well-capitalised investment banking operation may be able to cover losses in retail banking," said Vickers.

When the grandees returned, they informed the sprig that he would soon receive a new posting; the choice was Australia or Barbados.The families were not much interested in the customer base, but they did grasp the significance of developments such as credit cards, launching Barclaycard; they had a strong feeling for overseas, and were sufficiently profitable at home to pacify the shareholders.

Securities lending is sufficiently profitable that it has spawned its own underworld of unsavory activity.

Eli Lilly licensed pseudomycin from Strobel for $100,000 and spent some $50 million seeking to turn it into an antifungal medicine before determining it wasn't sufficiently profitable.

The problem was with the microfinance institutions themselves, many of which weren't yet sufficiently evolved or profitable.

Halewood International, the Merseyside based drinks company that owns the Crabbie's brand, may yet decide that the fit with Aintree is sufficiently strong and profitable to merit another deal.

The governor is poaching jobs from other states, evangelizing in the name of economic development on behalf of Texas; that's sufficiently predatory enough and potentially profitable enough to qualify in some circles as businesslike.

"Chauvel's leadership," wrote Henry Gullett, "was distinguished by the rapidity with which he summed up the very obscure Turkish position in the early morning, and by his judgement and characteristic patience in keeping so much of his force in reserve until the fight developed sufficiently to ensure its most profitable employment".

By the 18th century, bullfighting's popularity had grown sufficiently to make bull breeding financially profitable, and herds were bred for specific characteristics.