Sentence examples for would be unprofitable from inspiring English sources

Some groups assert that without subsidies, a huge swath of the industry would be unprofitable.

N.T.T. had previously resisted widespread demands for lower Internet rates, saying they would be unprofitable.

The private sector does not provide services in poor, rural areas, because the investment involved would be unprofitable.

According to Continental's calculations, United's operations would be unprofitable in every quarter between now and the end of 2004.

If the interest rate were higher, investment would be unprofitable because the cost of borrowing the necessary funds would exceed the returns on the investment.

Burned in the past by price spikes that proved ephemeral, the oil industry has become extremely reluctant to invest in wells that would be unprofitable at low prices, so it has none to reopen now.

The budget subsidiary concept is simply to cut costs and make viable routes that would otherwise be unprofitable.

"Just take away the fuel-tax exemption and these boats would already be unprofitable," Ms. Nouvian said.

The big thinking tends to stop short of selling goods directly to consumers online, not only because it would probably be unprofitable but because it could alienate the retailers who carry the products.

For example, Scottish social philosopher and political economist Adam Smith, and later Austrian-born British economist Friedrich A. Hayek, noted the important role of government in assisting the functioning of markets by preventing violence and fraud, protecting property and public safety, enforcing contracts, and providing public infrastructure and utilities that would otherwise be unprofitable.

But Mr. Osburn said two major changes over the last 20 years have made increased regulatory efforts necessary: an influx of primarily Asian refugees like Mr. Nguyen seeking a livelihood from the shrimping industry, and the invention of "peeler technology" which created a market for extremely small shrimp that would otherwise be unprofitable to harvest.