Sentence examples for temporary gain from inspiring English sources

But that temporary gain was far outweighed by the overall cost in strokes.

The nature of Clinton's gains, combined with Trump's further stumbles in the past few weeks, could mean that her post-convention rise in the polls marks a meaningful shift rather than a temporary gain.

Those that emerge in response to carrots as opportunistic carpet-bagging aimed at capturing a temporary gain.

In some cases, higher spending can raise GDP for a short period of time if tax increases are delayed, but the greater the delay, the greater the long-run decline in employment and output that ultimately swamps the temporary gain.

If the trade goes against you (the futures price falls from $70 to $69), the fellow on the other end of the trade collects the difference out of your collateral; if it goes in your favor, you pick up additional cash and can earn interest on that temporary gain.

Whether this year's results represent a true "rebound" or merely a temporary gain remains to be seen.

When Polk finally advanced at mid-morning, he made only temporary gains against the stubborn Union defenders.

In March 1972, the North Vietnamese carried out the Easter offensive on three fronts, expanding their holdings in Cambodia and Laos and bringing temporary gains in South Vietnam.

Democrats scored temporary gains in the elections of 1910 and 1912 and, during the Great Depression, in the elections of 1932 and 1934, but it was not until 1954 that sustained competition began to develop between the two major parties.

The rise of an investor class (half of Americans own shares) benefits the party, because middle-class shareholders tend to back Republican causes such as privatising Social Security, the federal pensions system.These long-term trends are reinforced by significant temporary gains.

Shia death squads will go back to work, ethnic murders will soar again and Americans will resume calls to extract their soldiers from a maelstrom they cannot contain.As in Iraq, so in Afghanistan: it would be both morally wrong and tactically foolish for the West's politicians to exaggerate temporary gains in the vain hope of stilling the domestic clamour for withdrawal.