Remunerative Sentence Examples

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  • The government monopolies of opium and salt were then for the first time placed upon a remunerative basis.

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  • The bone-bed of Axmouth in Devonshire and Westbury and Aust in Gloucestershire, in the Penarth or Rhaetic series of strata, contains the scales, teeth and bones of saurians and fishes, together with abundance of coprolites; but neither there nor at Lyme Regis is there a sufficient quantity of phosphatic material to render the working of it for agricultural purposes remunerative.

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  • The former industry was abandoned as other crops became more remunerative.

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  • There can be no doubt that this expenditure is remunerative, since many rich regions of Asia Minor have long suffered from want of population.

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  • The conclusion supported by most evidence seems to be that he practised on his friends and dependants, but not as a remunerative profession.

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  • Yet, with few exceptions, the profession of journalism is not remunerative.

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  • High cultivation, however, has produced valuable marketgardens about Boston and the larger towns; and industry has made tillage remunerative in most other parts.

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  • Settled government, settled habits, remunerative employment and opportunities for the improvement of their condition are developing in them the virtues of the two parent races.

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  • It is commonly supposed that osiers or willows will prove remunerative and flourish with little attention on any poor, wet, marshy soil.

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  • Truck farming and the cultivation of orchard and small fruits have long been remunerative occupations; the acreage devoted to peaches doubled between 1890 and 1900.

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  • Coal and iron are occasionally met with, and traces of copper ore are to be found in places, but none of these minerals exists in sufficiently large deposits to make mining remunerative.

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  • Its cultivation requires constant care, but is highly remunerative.

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  • A good proof of the value of the system as remunerative and healthful, morally and physically, is seen in the growing desire of other countries to follow our lead.

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  • The most remunerative and most characteristic farming to-day is diversified and intensive and on small holdings.

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  • Sugar-beet culture has been found to be exceptionally remunerative in this valley as well as in those of the South Platte and Grand rivers.

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  • In Lake county, for example, very much of the argentiferous ore that is too low for remunerative extraction (limit 1903 about $12.00 per ton) is used for fluxes.'

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  • Gold is found in the Han, but not in sufficient quantities to make working it more than barely remunerative.

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  • Except as a protection against famine, expenditure on irrigation is not remunerative in Bengal, on account of the abundance of rivers, and the general dampness of the climate.

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  • Traces of auriferous sands have been discovered at many places, but the percentage of gold is too poor to make the working remunerative.

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  • That the labourers had been badly housed was evident, and there was little chance of improvement by private capitalists, for cottage property is not remunerative.

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  • There is a good and remunerative demand for Shire geldings for use as draught horses in towns.

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  • From 1880 to 1890 the acreage devoted to wheat greatly diminished, because the spring variety was not relatively remunerative, but the acreage trebled in the next decade as autumn planting increased.

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  • Both were well known before they joined David Cameron's front bench team of enjoying highly remunerative non-political employment outside the House of Commons.

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  • A. I find it very remunerative, and this is one particular stereotype I'm very happy to endorse.

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  • You tap into John's talents which is financially remunerative to you both.

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  • In 1861 he joined Meredith Townsend as joint-editor and part proprietor of the Spectator, then a well-known liberal weekly, which, however, was not remunerative from the business point of view.

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  • He was a man of many gifts, excelling alike in preaching, in debate and in friendship, and declined many offers of more remunerative service.

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  • It is called " basket sugar," and meets with a brisk sale, at remunerative prices, among the Chinese coolies; and as the sugar as soon as cooled is packed ready for market, without losing any weight by draining, this branch of sugar-making is a most lucrative one whereever there is sufficient local demand.

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  • Then there was the glaring anomaly of allowing the Conversion Economies to accumulate at compound interest in the hands of the commissioners of the Caisse, instead of using the money for remunerative purposes.

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  • All he needs is good bee weather and an apiary free from disease to make him appreciate bee-craft as one of the most remunerative of rural industries; affording a wholesome open-air life conducive to good health and yielding an abundance of contentment.

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  • On several of the hills are quarries of slate of good quality, the working of which affords remunerative employment to many laborers.

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  • But since remunerative capital can be consumed by unproductive consumers, this argument will not hold.

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  • The very children who used to stay at home to help out or do remunerative work are now in school.

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  • An assured market and remunerative prices for their products would be of great help, members felt.

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  • Progressive wages and highly remunerative job - what could be better?

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  • Both were well known before they joined David Cameron 's front bench team of enjoying highly remunerative non-political employment outside the House of Commons.

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  • A. I find it very remunerative, and this is one particular stereotype I 'm very happy to endorse.

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  • You tap into John 's talents which is financially remunerative to you both.

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  • I have written a goodly number of candidly speaking third-rate novels, which have been fairly remunerative here, and fairly read in America.

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  • He soon found such work not sufficiently remunerative to keep his petite horde in comfort, and then turned his thoughts to employment from the French foreign office, either in writing or in diplomacy.

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  • A large and remunerative export trade in salt to India is now established, whereas formerly not one grain found its way there; the first steps in this direction were taken in 1892 when works were begun to place the great rock-salt salines of Salif, on the coast of the Red Sea, on a commercial footing.

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  • His pension was continued by the National Assembly, and he was partially indemnified for the depreciation of the currency by remunerative appointments.

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  • All children between eight and fifteen years of age, and all between fifteen and sixteen years of age who are not regularly employed in some useful or remunerative occupation, must attend the public school all the time it is in session or a private school for the same time unless excused by the city or the county superintendent because of mental or physical disability or because of proficiency in the branches taught in the first eight grades.

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  • The principal cereals cultivated are Indian corn (product, 53,75 0, 000 bushels in 1908) and wheat; the cultivation of the latter, formerly remunerative, declined on account of the competition of the Western States, but revived after 1899, largely owing to the efforts of the Georgia Wheat Growers' Association (organized in 1897), and in 1908 the yield was 2,208,000 bushels.

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  • It was never expected that this would be a remunerative work, but it was thought for political reasons expedient to construct it in order to induce turbulent frontier tribes to settle down into peaceful agriculture.

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  • This has had a great measure of success, and the canal itself has proved remunerative, irrigating 123,000 acres in 1896-1897.

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  • The water is there in abundance, the land is well adapted for irrigation, but as there is a considerable rainfall, it is doubtful whether the scheme would prove remunerative, and a large section of the landowners have hitherto opposed it, as likely to waterlog the country.

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  • The canal system of Orissa was never expected to be remunerative, since in five years out of six the local rainfall is sufficient for the rice crop. In1878-1879the area irrigated was 111,250 acres, and the outlay up to date was Rx.1,750,000.

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  • The last of those given in the table above was not expected to be remunerative, but it should prove a valuable protective against famine.

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  • The investment proved most remunerative, and helped very materially to save the country from bankruptcy and internationalism.

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  • The production is small, but would be increased at remunerative prices.

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  • His plan was to keep every inmate of every cell under constant close observation, and all were to be reformed by solitude and seclusion while constantly employed in remunerative labour, in the profits of which they were to share.

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  • Cereals are given more than twice as much acreage as cotton, but yield only a third as great aggregate returns, Indian corn being much the most remunerative; about three-fourths of the cereal acreage are given to its cultivation, and it ranks after cotton in value of harvest.'

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  • Small fruits, orchard fruits, hay, garden products and grains are decreasingly dependent on irrigation; wheat, which was once California's great staple, is (for good, but not for best results) comparatively independent of it, - hence its early predominance in Californian agriculture, due to this success on arid lands since taken over for more remunerative irrigated crops.

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  • Silver-mining ceased to be highly remunerative beginning with the closing of the India mints and repeal of the Sherman Law in 1893; since 1900 the yield has shown an extraordinary decrease - in 1905 it was $6,945,581, and in 1907 $7,411,652 - and it is said that as a result of the great fall in the market value of the metal the mines can now be operated only under the most favourable conditions and by exercise of extreme economy.

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  • Even friends of the railway presaged that such outlay could not by any possibility be remunerative; but the contrary became evident from the moment the line was opened on the 17th of September 1838.

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