Sentence examples for were profit from inspiring English sources
noun
Total income or cash flow minus expenditures. The money or other benefit a non-governmental organization or individual receives in exchange for products and services sold at an advertised price.
We just felt like we were profit puppets".
During the pre-recession glory years, law schools were profit centers, on their own or as part of larger universities.
Mr. Baker said the company's organic revenue growth -- growth from current business operations, rather than from acquisitions -- was above expectations, as were profit margins.
Instead, this production's backers forthrightly acknowledged that their main motives for reviving "Rent" so soon were profit and their own sentimentality.
Contributing to the bearish mood were profit warnings from several big companies, including Eastman Kodak, Viacom and the Ford Motor Company, as well as Boeing's announcement on Tuesday that it would lay off up to 30,000 of its employees.
In a statement, The National Union of Mineworkers said Lady Thatcher had "set out to serve those whose interests were profit for the few" and this had led to the "decimation" of the coal industry.
At its core, it's a simplistic, neoliberal idea: that public services can be run as if they were profit-making businesses.
Foundation hospitals are meant to be PBCs or "public interest companies" - owned by the public but otherwise operating as if they were profit-seeking companies.
He said that diversification was a logical step for gun manufacturers because they were profit-oriented companies, not because that was a key to their survival.
Though neither Stone Wall nor Windhover were profit-making, both were influential in recognizing and publishing good poets early in their careers.
But how were profits to be increased?
