Profit Sentence Examples

I turned a good profit on that piece of real estate.

Land for farming purposes is expensive, and wages are high, leaving small profit, unless it happens that a man, with his family to assist him, works his own land.

He had helped her blend her dream of a horse ranch into a profit making package of a guest ranch.

It is hard to see how all-out war turns a profit for anyone in any scenario.

It is a labor to task the faculties of a man--such problems of profit and loss, of interest, of tare and tret, and gauging of all kinds in it, as demand a universal knowledge.

The profit derived from the 20% thus removed is a very large one.

We have already seen that among the princes who joined the First Crusade there were some who were rather politiques than devots, and who aimed at the acquisition of temporal profit as well as of spiritual merit.

Even if the agent made no profit he was bound to return double what he had received, if he made poor profit he had to make up the deficiency; but he was not responsible for loss by robbery or extortion on his travels.

The Spanish rulers made efforts to govern wisely and liberally, showing great complaisance, particularly in heeding the profit of the colony, even at the expense of Spanish colonial commercial regulations.

The expansion of Levantine trade which ensued in the Hellenistic age brought especial profit to Rhodes, whose standard of coinage and maritime law became widely accepted in the Mediterranean.

But he had a strict eye to profit in all his dealings with them.

The king of Spain, Philip IV., received the author coldly, and it is said even tried to suppress his book, fearing that the Portuguese, who had just revolted from Spain (1640), would profit by its information.

You know Cade; you could make a profit off this ranch other ways than running cattle.

But Elizabeth did not profit long by this atrocity.

At the very moment when Matthias was about to profit by the disappearance of his most capable rival, another dangerous rebellion, headed by the primate and the chief dignitaries of the state, with the object of placing Casimir, son of Casimir IV., on the throne, paralysed Matthias's foreign policy during the critical years 1470-1471.

Dr Alem, who had been permitted to return from exile, was not slow to profit by the occasion.

But by far tht greatest profit the Italians reaped was the emancipation of theh burghs.

Hence a tacit understanding between Bismarck and Austria that the latter should profit by Italian resentment against France to draw Italy into the orbit of the Austro-German alliance.

Squarcione, whose original vocation was tailoring, appears to have had a remarkable enthusiasm for ancient art, and a proportionate faculty for acting, with profit to himself and others, as a sort of artistic middleman; his own performances as a painter were merely mediocre.

To profit by individual experience is thus the only criterion we possess of the existence of the conscious experience itself.

It had a run of forty-five nights, and brought the author not a little profit.

Broken as is the surface, poor as is the soil of certain tracts, there is but little of the island which will not ultimately be cultivated with profit as pumice and clay-marl yield to labour.

But there is reason to believe that the influence of the example of its numerous members did not extend to the common tenantry, who not unnaturally were reluctant to adopt the practices of those by whom farming was perhaps regarded as primarily a source of pleasure rather than of profit.

Sheep were small and their fleeces light, nevertheless, owing to the meagreness of the yields of cereals' and the demand for wool for export, sheep-farming was looked to, as early as the 12th century, as the chief source of profit.

He did not derive much profit from this new favour, as he died on the 29th of June following, without his nomination having been sanctioned by the pope.

There is in every society or neighbourhood, an ordinary or average rate of wages and profit in every different employment of labour and stock, regulated by principles to be explained hereafter, as also an ordinary or average rate of rent.

These may be called the natural rates at the time when and the place where they prevail; and the natural price of a commodity is what is sufficient to pay for the rent of the land, the wages of the labour, and the profit of the stock necessary for bringing the commodity to market.

No barrister can be appointed who is of less than fifteen years' standing, or a member of parliament, or holder of any office of profit (other than that of recorder) under the crown; nor can any barrister try a petition in any borough in which he is recorder or in which he resides, or which is included in his circuit.

But if hereditary behaviour is unaccompanied by consciousness, it can in no wise contribute to experience, and can afford no data by which the organism can profit.

The usury prohibition did not deny the legitimacy of profit.

It had finally been in the black and she was actually making a profit.

Certainly neither had been taught to misrepresent for their own profit.

On such lands, where otherwise desirable, it may sometimes be planted with profit.

These ores were worked by the ancients, but so inefficiently that their spoilheaps can be smelted again with profit.

Some of the complaints against the companies, however, were exaggerated, and the estimates formed of the possible commercial development of telegraphy were optimistic. The basis for these estimates was the experience of other countries, which, however, did not justify the expectation that a large increase of business consequent on reduction of rates could be obtained without serious diminution of profit.

Thus free thought received a check, by which not only ecclesiastical but political tyrants knew how to profit.

Miller, he was appointed manager of the Rensselaer & Saratoga railway, which he bought up when it was in a very bad condition, and skilfully reorganized; in the same way he bought and reorganized the Rutland & Washington railway, from which he ultimately realized a large profit.

The country has a great wealth of minerals, silver having been found, and copper, lead, iron, coal and rock-salt being wrought with profit.

The outside cost of construction of the first section, which lies entirely in the plains of Konia, is estimated to have been £625,000; the company retained, therefore, a profit of at least I' 4 millions sterling on this first part of the enterprise.

It is still, however, the centre of distribution for a very large, if scantily populated, country, and it also derives much profit from pilgrims, lying as it does on the route which Shiite pilgrims from Persia must take on their way to the sacred cities.

These parsissoks, elected at the rate of about one representative to 120 voters, wear a cap with a badge (a bear rampant), and aid the European members of the council in distributing the surplus profit apportioned to each district, and generally in advising as, to the welfare of that part of Greenland under their partial control.

The second part of the act provides that if any person or persons, bodies politic and corporate, for any sum of money, reward, gift, profit or benefit, directly or indirectly, or for or by reason of any promise, agreement, grant, bond, covenant or other assurances.

He was an astute businessman who easily could turn a profit.

The declaration is to the effect that the clergyman has not received the presentation in consideration of any sum of money, reward, gift, profit or benefit directly or indirectly given or promised by him or any one for him to any one; that he has not made any promise of resignation other than that allowed by the Clerical Resignation Bonds Act 1828; that he has not for any money or benefit procured the avoidance of the benefice; and that he has not been party to any agreement invalidated by sec. 3 sub-sec. 3 of the act which invalidates any agreement for the exercise of a right of patronage in favour or on the nomination of any particular person, and any agreement on the transfer of a right of patronage (a) for the retransfer of the right, or (b) for postponing payment of any part of the consideration for the transfer until a vacancy or for more than three months, or (c) for payment of interest until a vacancy or for more than three months, or (d) for any payment in respect of the date at which a vacancy occurs, or (e) for the resignation of a benefice in favour of any person.

Cicero was on friendly terms with both him and Roscius, the equally distinguished comedian, and did not disdain to profit by their instruction.

The chances of you purchasing an HUD property for the purposes of investment or resale to make a profit may be slim.

The investor typically plans to buy cheaply and then resell the home for significant profit.

Contrary to popular belief, the term "direct lender" does not refer to individuals who use their own money to lend money to other people as a means to make a profit.

You can also auction off someone else's merchandise for a percentage of the profit.

If you're outgoing, assertive, and passionate about your product, you may be able to earn a sizable profit from this type of business.

This included cost for the building and maintenance of the bridge, the interest owed to the bridge bond holders as well as a projected profit of about $17 million.

Most stores hedge their sales bets by catering to the mid-section of society in order to ensure their profit margins.

Kids and adults alike love and collect Webkinz, some for fun, and some for profit.

With just those three dolls and their accompanying books and accessories, the company garnered a $1.7 million dollar profit in just four months.

The theory behind this kind of out-of-country manufacturing is that inflation is held at bay, company profit margins increase and the costs to consumers can stay low.

The company enjoyed over 50-million dollars in gross profit in the years 2007 and 2008 and at its peak, president, CEO and majority stock holder, Mike Jackson, claimed that they had a distribution system of over 100,000 representatives.

They can all provide you with the cost and step-by-step details to design and produce your game.Once you have the projected design and production costs, you will be able to decide whether you could make a profit by selling your game.

If you can't make a profit, you might decide to just enjoy the game with your friends and family and not pursue the idea of producing games for sale.

But, if you have a great idea and the publisher thinks the game will make a profit, your game might be chosen!

This is important because you must pay a self employment tax on the net profit of your business.

To be considered a business, an activity needs to make a profit for three of five tax years and meet certain other eligibility criteria.

You'll need to offer him or her a percentage of your profit, but this can be a great way to get your business off the ground without the hassle of opening your own store.

You should have enough cash on hand to float your business the first year or two without expecting to make a profit.

But if you have the drive to succeed, chose the kind of venture that works with your skills and lifestyle and have excellent people skills, you will find a profit in your pocket at the end of the day.

Whether you are interested in finding out how to contribute to your favorite non profit organization or how to organize a benefit event, LoveToKnow Charity has it covered.

The LoveToKnow Charity community is made up of experienced writers with backgrounds in fundraising and non profit work.

There is even information on grants for nonprofit organizations, accounting and non profit salaries.

There is even information on grants for nonprofit organizations, accounting, non profit salaries and other information relevant to operating a charitable organization.

Groups can make up to 50 percent profit by selling Entertainment Books.

Groups can expect up to a 50 percent profit on sales and can sell popcorn in tins or bags.

What is the expected profit from the fundraiser?

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This non profit organization provides hair prosthesis to disadvantaged children age 18 and younger.

Oprah's Angel Network is a non profit, volunteer organization that inspires others to make a difference in the lives of others.

Bake sales and car washes are overused and overplayed in today's communities, so many non-profit groups are continuously looking for innovative money-raising ideas that will yield a profit that outweighs the cost and effort put into it.

There are a couple of ways an organization might accept a car - first, they may refurbish the vehicle and sell it at a profit, or use various car parts and sell those.

If you choose this type of fundraiser, be sure to select entertainment that will appeal to your primary audience and ensure that you can price the tickets at a level where you'll be able to sell them at a profit.

Product sales fundraisers work particularly well for groups that have a large number of participants, such as school bands, sports teams, and other not for profit activities and groups.

Additionally, popcorn can be sold for a very affordable price, yet still net the organization a healthy profit margin.

It's a great self esteem exercise for any school club or non profit, and teens will be amazed at what a great event they can pull off.

This allows you to measure your profit immediately without any cost for unsold inventory.

Secondly, after paying the base cost of your card (usually around $5.00), you can decide how much to sell the cards for, allowing you to control your profit intake.

But the importation of foreignsugar, cheapened by foreign state aid to a price which materially reduced the fair and reasonable profit of native cultivators, was a state of things the Indian government could not accept.

This contract relieved Peru of its crushing burden of foreign indebtedness, and turned an apparently heavy loss to the bondholders into a possible profit.

The town is not situated so as to profit largely by the development of the resources of Yezo, and as a port of foreign trade its outlook is indifferent.

On the same day Cutler and Sargent " for themselves and associates " transferred to William Duer, then Secretary of the Treasury Board, and his associates " one equal moiety of the Scioto tract of land mentioned in the second contract," it being provided that both parties were to be equally interested in the sale of the land, and were to share equally any profit or loss.

That theory is based upon the fact that after the opening of the country to foreign intercourse in 1857, hundreds of inferior specimens of netsuke were chiselled by inexpert hands, purchased wholesale by treaty-port merchants, and sent to New York, London and Paris, where, though they brought profit to the exporter, they also disgusted the connoisseur and soon earned discredit for their whole class.

The gross earnings of all the lines during the fiscal year I 9051906 were 7 millions sterling, approximately, and the gross expenses (including the payment of interest on loans and debentures) were under 31/8 millions, so that there remained a net profit of 31/8 millions, being at the rate of a little over 81/8% on the invested capital.

It was calculated that this redemption would be effected in a period of 32 years, after which the annual profit accruing to the state from the lines would be 51/8 millions sterling.

Not only is vein-material formerly regarded as unremunerative now extracted at a profit, but in many instances increased gold-values have been encountered below zones of relative barrenness, and operators have been encouraged to make costly preparations for really deep mining - more than 3000 ft.

From the first he tried to profit by his marriage, and after the death of Henry I.

In former times, however, advantage was sometimes taken of the remedy as a means of profit.

In 1610 a vessel was despatched with merchandise suitable for traffic with the Indians, the voyage resulted in profit, and a lucrative trade in peltry sprang up. Early in 1614 Adriaen Block explored Long Island Sound and discovered Block Island.

The net profit made by the board in 1 9 06 was £ 4 5,000.

In 1907 the net profit on these was over £8000.

In the history of the United States the politician has been too often the man who, in connexion with some other trade or profession, has taken up politics as a tool to carve out some personal ambition or manufacture a financial profit.

In numerous speeches and addresses he expressed his belief in a strong colonial government, but a government administered for the benefit of the people under its control and not for the profit of the people at home.

On land the presence of a few educated Phanariots, such as Demetrios Ypsilanti or Alexander Mavrocordato, was powerless to inspire the rude hordes with any sense of order or of humanity in warfare; while every lull in the fighting, due to a temporary check to the Turks, was the signal for internecine conflicts due to the rivalry of leaders who, with rare exceptions, thought more of their personal power and profit than of the cause of Greece.

The first sources of the enormous wealth he subsequently attained were his introduction of sleeping-cars for railways, and his purchase (1864) of Storey Farm on Oil Creek, where a large profit was secured from the oil-wells.

Casimir's few wars were waged entirely for profit, not glory.

No attempt was made to profit by the embarrassments of the Russians in their war with Turkey.

The species and varieties of mammals and birds that have a commercial value as farmyard stock or as pets, are for the most part easy to keep, are attractive to the public and may be a source of profit.

The main profit has been reaped by Jewish usurers.

He could already count nearly five years' nominal service, an example of those naval abuses which he was to denounce (and to profit by) during a large part of his career.

In relation to the earliest social stage, we need consider nothing but the amount of labour employed in the production of an article as determining its exchange value; but in more advanced periods price is complex, and consists in the most general case of three elements - wages, profit and rent.

The same circumstances detertnine the variation of profits, but in an opposite direction; the increase of stock, which raises wages, tending to lower profit through the mutual competition of capitalists.

High or low wages and profit are the causes of high or low price; high or low rent is the effect of it."

The first is such as yields a profit without passing into other hands.

The second consists of such goods, raised, manufactured or purchased, as are sold for a profit and replaced by other goods; this sort of capital is therefore constantly going from and returning to the hands of its owner.

In advancing industrial communities, the portion of annual produce set apart as capital, bears an increasing proportion to that which is immediately destined to constitute a revenue, either as rent or as profit.

The line was capitalized at $46,000,000 and has paid a good profit on the investment.

The book brought him little profit at first, but became immensely popular.

In 1559 du Bellay published at Poitiers La Nouvelle Maniere de faire son profit des lettres, a satirical epistle translated from the Latin of Adrien Turnebe, and with it Le Poete courtisan, which introduced the formal satire into French poetry.

Sheep-farming and cattle-raising are carried on very generally, and, with the fisheries, provide the main occupation of the inhabitants, though they profit not a little from the tourists who flock to many of the islands throughout the summer.

The indigo and cotton plantations yield little profit, owing to foreign competition, and have in most cases been converted to other uses.

Establishments for evaporating fruit are now found in most of the larger apple-growing districts, and canning factories and jam factories have been established in many parts of Canada, and are conducted with advantage and profit.

Practically every form of investment in which a man is capable of indulging involves the lending and borrowing of money, the interest exacted being the profit which the lender receives for the use of.

Carew in 1602 states that it had lately purchased a corporation and derived great profit from its trade with Ireland.

In the second season it consisted of thirty families with property valued at $27,725; in 1846 there were 180 resident members, and the net profit for the year was $9029.

Philological rather than theological in character, it marked an epochal change from the old homiletic commentary, and though more recent research, patristic and papyral, has largely changed the method of New Testament exegesis, Alford's work is still a quarry where the student can dig with a good deal of profit.

One of his most notable works was his Teutschlands Wohlfarth in which he urged that the natural resources of Germany should be developed for the profit of the country and gave various instances of how this might be done.

They did not, however, renounce all intervention or all profit in the nominations to prelacies, but their intervention was no longer exhibited under the forms which the Hildebrandine party held to be illegal.

Those manufacturers who act as merchants aim to retain the merchant profit and must employ a merchant capital in stocks.

Ingots of Chinese silver were sent from Lhasa with a small proportion of gold dust, and an equal weight in mohurs was returned, leaving to the Nepal rajahs, between gold dust and alloy, a good profit.

Voltaire and the encyclopaedists with whom she corresponded, and on whom she conferred gifts and pensions, repaid her by the grossest flattery, while doing their best to profit by her generosity.

His own honorarium as author consisted of 200 copies, of which, however, he had to give away many to friends, to the king, the principal courtiers, the papal nuncio, &c. What remained he sold for his own profit at the price of a crown each, but the sale did not recoup him his outlay.

But though his book brought him no profit it brought him reputation, so widely spread, and of such long endurance, as no other legal treatise has ever enjoyed.

Hence it may be inferred that the insects which imitate ants profit in the same way that spiders do from this form of mimicry.

Gold occurs in the central region, where it is worked at a profit, and it has also been worked in the Menangkabo district and the interior of Padang.

The profit on the working, which is carried on by the state, is slight.

It was gradually recognized that the masses of water which collected wherever peat-digging had been carried on were an unnecessary menace to the neighbouring lands, and also that a more enduring source of profit lay in the bed of the fertile sea-clay under the peat.

That is ore from which there is reasonable hope that metal can be extracted with profit, if not to-day, then within a reasonable length of time.

Rock containing 22% of gold is an extraordinarily rich gold ore; that with 21% of copper is a profitable one to-day; that containing 21% of iron is not so to-day, for the sole reason that its iron cannot be extracted with profit in competition with the existing richer ores.

In so doing he was one of the first physicians of modern times to profit by a mode of study which is now reckoned indispensable.

But Waldeck, hoping to profit by this momentary success, sent a portion of his right wing towards St Amand, where it merely shared the fate of his left, and the day was decided.

As the Kandahari rupee is worth about 8 annas (half an English rupee) the government thus realizes a profit of 1%.

Such stolen property as could not be returned to the owners with profit was taken abroad in a sloop purchased for this work.

Our people as a whole will profit, for successful home-making is but another name for the upbuilding of the nation."

The chief support which had sustained him through the most arduous labour of his life was the hope that she would enjoy the fame and the profit which he anticipated from his Dictionary.

He concentrated all his energies on the government and defence of northern and eastern Germany, leaving the southern and western districts to profit by his example, while his policy of refraining from interference in the affairs of the other duchies tended to diminish the ill-feeling which existed between the various German tribes and to bring peace to the country as a whole.

The Romanists saw the significance of this movement and, fortunately for them, were able to profit by the dissensions which were breaking out in the ranks of their opponents, especially the doctrinal differences between the followers of Luther and those of Zwingli.

At first this great king was coldly received by the Protestants, who were ignorant of his designs and did not want a stranger to profit by the internal disputes of their country.

The princes knew well how to profit by the national prostration.

This policy has not, however, produced the intended effect; for the Poles founded a society to protect their own interests, and have often managed to profit by the artificial value given to their property.

He was satisfied that the Germans should profit by the commercial liberty allowed in the British colonies.

Many brood sows are fattened to greatest profit after the second or third litter.

Scientific research might prosper, just as poetry withered, under the patronage of kings, and such research had now a vast amount of new material at its disposal and could profit by the old Babylonian and Egyptian traditions.

Comrnerce.The trade of Egypt has developed enormously since the British occupation in 1882 ensured to all classes of the community the enjoyment of the profit of their labor.

Finally, it may be mentioned that a sum proportionately large is available from public funds and regular parliamentary grants for furthering science and arts by temporary subventions to students, authors, artists and others of insufficient means, in order to enable them to carry out particular works, to profit by foreign travel, &c. The principal scientific societies and institutions are detailed under Copenhagen.

The bishoprics of Bremen and Verden, the province of Farther Pomerania and the isle of Riigen which her armies had actually conquered, and which had been guaranteed to her by a whole catena of treaties, went partly to the upstart electorate of Hanover and partly to the upstart kingdom of Prussia, both of which states had been of no political importance whatever at the beginning of the war of spoliation by which they were, ultimately, to profit so largely and so cheaply.

Silver, copper, lead and iron are worked to some profit, while arsenic, alum, graphite, marble, porcelain, precious and building stones are also found.

The bull was then issued, and the pilgrims became even more numerous, to the profit of both clergy and citizens.

Carlyle, indomitably determined to make no concessions for immediate profit, wrote slowly and carefully, and turned out some of his most finished work.

Sea-lions, seals and dolphins are a source of profit.

A similar railway, of which the chief source of profit was the passenger traffic, was opened between Edinburgh and Dalkeith in 1831, branches being afterwards extended to Leith and Musselburgh.

Business worries, however, interrupted him; it was found necessary to reconstruct the company owing to its having grown out of proportion with the existing division of profit and labour.

But more than this, Great Britain had gained a reputation for patient and persevering efforts to promote the spread of civilization in these regions, a prestige which yielded profit during the difficult years of the World War, and was not without its effect in India.

The profit made upon the chlorine produced has to make up for the loss on the alkali.

It can be grown in the tropics from the level of the sea to a height equal to that of the Pyrenees and in the south and middle of Europe, but it cannot be grown in England with any chance of profit, except perhaps as fodder.

The real difficulty in India is to find the ore, the fuel, and the flux in sufficiently close proximity to yield a profit.

At the same time the operation of the revenue sale law had introduced a new race of zamindars, who were bound to their tenants by no traditions of hereditary sympathy, but whose sole object was to make a profit out of their newly purchased property.

It was recognized that the inheritance of future generations was being recklessly sacrificed to satisfy the immoderate desire for profit.

The area under cotton increased enormously, and the growers managed to retain in their own hands a fair share of the profit.

In 1908 the total length of railways open in India was 30,578, m., which carried 330 million passengers and 64 million tons of goods, and yielded a net profit exceeding 4 Facilities for irrigation (q.v.) vary widely, and irrigation works differ both in extent and in character.

The total number of letters, &c., carried by the post exceeds 800 millions, and the service yields a small profit to the state.

John Dollond, to whom the Copley medal of the Royal Society had been the first inventor of the achromatic telescope; but it was ruled by Lord Mansfield that" it was not the person who locked his invention in his scrutoire that ought to profit for such invention, but he who brought it forth for the benefit of mankind."3 In 1747 Leonhard Euler communicated to the Berlin Academy of Sciences a memoir in which he endeavoured to prove the possibility of correcting both the chromatic and.

The conditions, however, were not observed by the imperial generals, who for their own profit forced the new settlers to buy food at famine prices.

It shared indeed in the dreariness and corruption of the times commonly called the " dark ages," but when at last a productive period began the Church was the first to profit by it.

They did not, however, profit by their discovery, because, amongst the Egyptians, writing was clearly a mystery in both senses - only possible at that period for masters in the craft, and also something, like the writing of medical prescriptions at the present day in Latin, which was not to be made too easily intelligible to the common people.

It was a marked characteristic of the Renaissance in France to appropriate the spoils of Greece and Rome for the profit of the mother tongue.

Foreign weavers of cloth were established at Wakefield by Henry VII.; and Leland, writing in the time of Henry VIII., states that its "whole profit standeth by coarse drapery."

The point of law was argued by Bacon, and decided by the chancellor in favour of the king, who put the question to the judges individually, " Whether, if at any time, in a case depending before the judges, which his majesty conceived to concern him either in power or profit, and thereupon required to consult with them, and that they should stay proceedings in the meantime, they ought not to stay accordingly?"

He trafficked in public offices for the profit of Mazarin and in his own behalf.

Under certain circumstances, however, the native animals may recover, for in some cases they even profit by man's advent, and at times themselves become pests, like the Kea parrot (Nestor notabilis), which attacks sheep in New Zealand, and the bobolink or rice-bird (Dolichonyx oryzivorus) in North America.

Borrowers were not induced to borrow as a rule with the view of employing the capital so obtained at a greater profit, but they were compelled of necessity to borrow as a last resort.

In favourable localities and with judicious management these establishments yield very considerable profit (see Feather).

Indiscriminate cutting has occasionally been confined within certain bounds, but such restrictions were generally either of short duration or made for the convenience and profit of local governors.

Auriferous alluvial strata have been discovered in various localities, but everywhere the scarcity of water has been a bar to their being exploited with profit.

But after two months he found he was not in a position to profit by the lectures of the greatest Greek scholar of the time.

From his throne at Leiden he ruled the learned world; a word from him could make or mar a rising reputation; and he was surrounded by young men eager to listen to and profit by his conversation.

But once let this system be presented to men in earnest about right living, and eager to profit by what they are taught, and an ethical reform is inevitable.

Seeking for commercial profit, not in the exchange of commodities, but solely in the acquisition of actual gold and silver, and realizing that the home market could not absorb a tithe of the merchandise imported, the Lisbon capitalists sent their ships to discharge in Antwerp (where a Portuguese staple was established in 1503), or in some other port near the central markets of Europe.

Most of all did it profit by the statesmanship of Aratus, who initiated its expansive policy, until in 228 it comprised Arcadia, Argolis, Corinth and Aegina.

In the exploitation of her forest products, however, are to be found the industries that yield the greatest immediate profit to Bolivia.

After the collapse of that company a secret committee of inquiry was appointed by the Commons, and Aislabie, who had in the meantime resigned the seals of his office, was declared guilty of having encouraged and promoted the South Sea scheme with a view to his own exorbitant profit, and was expelled the House.

Although there was no strong public sentiment against the practice, Pitt altogether refused to profit by it.

The tree is rarely planted in mixed plantations where profit is an object; it interferes with its neighbours and occupies too much room.

In this office he was in constant intercourse with Pepys, whose diary frequently mentions him; but the insinuations of Pepys against him must not be taken too seriously, as there is no evidence to show that Batten in making a profit from his office fell below the standards of the time.

The copper lodes of New South Wales contain ores of a much higher grade than those of many well-known mines .worked at a profit in other parts of the world, and, with a fair price for copper, the production largely increases.

The Sadducee was a Jew outwardly so long as he so retained place, power and profit.

Such disqualifications include the holding of any office or place of profit under the council other than the office of chairman, and the being concerned or interested in any contract or S r n ?'

All sewers, whether made by the council, by their predecessors, or by private persons, vest in the district council, that is to say, become their property, with some exceptions, of which the principal is sewers made by a person for his own profit.

The whale fishery also has greatly fallen off; there is no profit on the oil and the whales are sought for the baleen alone; they are much less numerous too than they once were, and have to be sought farther and farther north.

No person who holds any office of profit or trust under the state or the United States is eligible to the legislature, and no member, during the term for which he was chosen, shall be appointed or elected to any office created, or the emoluments of which have been increased during his term.

The attempt to throw off the British yoke was confined to a few disaffected ex-rulers and their heirs, with their numerous clansmen and hangers-on, besides the badmashes and highwaymen who saw their way to profit by the removal of the British administration under which their peculiar talents found no safe outlet.

The resulting profit was small, and Swift's editorial duties brought him into acrimonious relation with Lady Giffard.

With his fierce hatred of what he recognized as injustice, it was impossible that he should not feel exasperated at the gross misgovernment of Ireland for the supposed benefit of England, the systematic exclusion of Irishmen from places of honour and profit, the spoliation of the country by absentee landlords, the deliberate discouragement of Irish trade and manufactures.

There is no reason to think that the English ministry wished otherwise; but secret influences were at work, and a patent for supplying Ireland with a coinage of copper halfpence was accorded to William Wood on such terms that the profit accruing from the difference between the intrinsic and the nominal value of the coins, about 40%, was mainly divided between him and George I.'s favourite duchess of Kendal, by whose influence Wood had obtained the privilege.

Place and profit were comparatively indifferent to him; he declares that he never received a farthing for any of his works except Gulliver's Travels, and that only by Pope's management; and he had so little regard for literary fame that he put his name to only one of his writings.

The excuse, as a rule, may hold good, that the postal charge is only a reasonable one for service rendered, so that the net income of the post office really resembles the profit of a business, but the element of taxation appears undoubtedly to enter.

Taxes in his view must come out of rent, or profit, or the wages of labour; and he observes that every tax which falls finally upon one only of the three sorts of revenue "is necessarily unequal in so far as it does not affect the other two," and in examining different taxes he disregards as a rule this sort of inequality, and confines his observations "to that inequality which is occasioned by a particular tax falling unequally upon that particular sort of private revenue which is affected byl it."

People are induced to do things they would otherwise leave alone, Dr to leave alone what they would otherwise do, because money is given to them out of the pockets of the tax-payers to make it worth their while to do so; but there is palpably loss and not profit in the proceeding.

Livingston's final victory in the courts brought him little financial profit because of the heavy expenses of the litigation.

Hicks's teachings on slavery had impressed both James and Lucretia; in 1830 James gave up a lucrative cotton commission business that he might not profit from the products of slave labour; and both took an active part in the campaign against slavery.

Its great ranges, whose insufficient rainfall makes impossible the certain, and therefore the profitable, cultivation of cereals, or other settled agriculture, lend themselves with profit to stock and dairy farming.

It was to the great profit of England that they died within two years of each other, the elder in 1040, the younger in 1042.

Llewelyn-ap-Gruffydd, the old ally of de Montfort, had come with profit out of the civil wars of 126366, and having won much land and more influence during the evil days of Henry III., was reluctant to see that his time of prosperity had come to an end, now that a king of a very different character sat on the English throne.

For more than three years Lancaster practically reigned in his cousins name; it was soon found that the realm got no profit thereby, for Earl Thomas, though neither so apathetic nor so frivolous as Edward, was not a whit more competent to conduct either war or domestic administration.

In the commencement of his continental war Edward took little profit either from his assumption of the French royal title, or from the lengthy list of princes of the Low Countries - Battle of whom he enrolled beneath his banner.

The sole achievement of the early years of the war which was of any profit to Edward or his realm was the great naval triumph of Sluys (June 24, 1340), which gave the English the command of the sea for the next twenty years.

Hence there arose, both in and out of parliament, a violent agitation for the removal of Lancaster from power, and the punishment of the favorites, who were believed, with complete justification, to be misusing the royal name for their own private profit.

The rivalry between them was purely personal; both were prepared to go on with the Lancastrian experiment, the attethpt to govern the realm in a constitutional fashion by an alliance between the king and the parliament; both were eager persecutors of the Lollards; both were eager to make profit for England by interfering in the civil wars of the Orleanists and Burgundians which were now devastating France.

He owned many ships, and traded with great profit to himself abroad, because he could promise, as a king, advantages to foreign buyers and sellers with which no mere merchant could compete.

The survivors of that time were capable of taking arms for any cause that offered a chance of unreasonable profit, and no ones loyalty could be trusted.

In the year of the treaty of Etaples the Yorkist conspiracies began once more to thicken, and Henry was fortunate to escape with profit from the French war before his domestic Yorkist troubles recommenced.

In 1500 it was for the common profit of the realm that there should exist such a court, which could reduce even the most powerful offender to order.

He would have been astonished to hear that, before the end of the century, his office had to deal with more than 3,000,000,000 postal packets a year, and that the net profit which it paid into the exchequer was to be more than double what it received in 1839.

The national spirit, vaporized into a cosmopolitan mist, was fast condensing again under mortification and insult from abroad uncompensated by any appreciable percentage of cash profit.

An acre thus produces $11.60,.making a gross profit of $5.60.

When this is deducted from the gross profits of $5.60 prices found above, We have a net profit of $3.32 an acre, not an exorbitant one by any means.

In the early days of wheat-farming the bonanza farmer often speculated, but experience has taught him that he had better leave this to the men in the cities, and content himself with the profit from the business under his eye.

Excellent profit is made in certain parts of the island from the herring fishery; this is especially the case on the east coast.

The first part of his life was devoted to mercantile and financial pursuits at Cadiz and then in Madrid, where he managed the affairs of and liquidated a mercantile and industrial society to the satisfaction and profit of the shareholders.

These successes produced a great effect; the cause of discovery, now connected with boundless hopes of profit, became popular; and many volunteers, especially merchants and seamen from Lisbon and Lagos, came forward.

Of these the former, in his two voyages of 1455 and 1456, explored part of the courses of the Senegal and the Gambia, discovered the Cape Verde Islands (1456), named and mapped more carefully than before a considerable section of the African littoral beyond Cape Verde, and gave much new information on the trade-routes of north-west Africa and on the native races; while Gomez, in his first important venture (after 1448 and before 1458), though not accomplishing the full Indian purpose of his voyage (he took a native interpreter with him for use "in the event of reaching India"), explored and observed in the Gambia valley and along the adjacent coasts with fully as much care and profit.

So well did he profit by the teaching he received in this quarter that, in 630 or 631, Cyrus was appointed to the vacant patriarchate of Alexandria, and in 633 succeeded in reconciling the Severians of his province on the basis of Ala 6Eav5pGKi Elip.-yEta (one divine-human energy).

These animals are of great use and profit to their masters, for their wool is very good and fine, particularly that of the species called pacas, which have very long fleeces; and the expense of their food is trifling, as a handful of maize suffices them, and they can go four or five days without water.

It is not easy to defend the principle that a landlord who has already lost his rent should also have to pay the defaulter before getting a new tenant or deriving a profit from the farm by working it himself.

The consolidated rate was now paid by the occupier, who would profit by economy and lose by extravagance.

Aquitaine, hitherto the common prey of all the Frankislh kings, having in vain tried to profit by the struggles between Fredegond and Brunhilda, and set up an independent king, Gondibald, now finally burst her bonds in 670.

Despite a temporary triumph, when Childeric was forced to recognize the principle of hereditary succession in public offices, and when the mayoralties of Neustria and Burgundy were alternated to the profit of both, Lger soon fell into disgrace and was exiled to that very monastery of Luxeuil to which Ebromn had been relegated.

When the abdication of Christina of Sweden caused a quarrel between Charles Gustavus of Sweden and John Casimir of Poland, by which the emperor and the elector of Brandenburg hoped to profit, Mazarin (August 15, 1658) leagued the Rhine princes against them; while at the same time the substitution of Pope Alexander VII.

He never perceived how its loss threw France back a full century, to the great profit of foreign nations; while neither did the Church perceive that she had been firing on her own troops.

The hive bee is, moreover, the only insect known to be capable of domestication, so far as labouring under the direct control of the bee-master is concerned, its habits being admirably adapted for embodying human methods of working for profit in our present-day life.

Authorities differ with regard to the age during which the queen-bee is useful to the bee-keeper who works for profit.

As a rule, it may be said that the man content to start with an apiary of moderate size - say fifty stocks - may realize a fair profit from comb-honey only; but so limited a venture would need to be supplemented by some other means before an adequate income could be secured.

The well-read and intelligent bee-keeper, content to work on orthodox lines, will be able to manage an apiary - large or small - by guiding and controlling the countless army he commands in a way that will yield him both pleasure and profit.

The Arab-speaking and Mahommedan population found their religion and language respected, and from the first showed a marked desire to profit by the new order.

Show specimens generally profit by being born earlier.

The house of correction pays the city a profit of $35, 000 to $40,000 a year.

When there is no other means of entering into commercial relations with remote and savage races save by enterprise of such magnitude that private individuals could not incur the risk involved, then a company may be well entrusted with special privileges for the purpose, as an inventor is accorded a certain protection by law by means of a patent which enables him to bring out his invention at a profit if there is anything in it.

In Stock Exchange slang the term is used of an operator who applies for a portion of a new security being issued, not with a view to holding it, but with the intention of immediate realization, at a profit if possible.

Horses were high maintenance animals, and there would be no profit until the safari and the guest ranch were completed.

He hastily denied his endeavors were for profit, but tossed in a caveat of "possible help with expenses."

By the end of the summer I'll have enough profit to roof the house.

He was an amiable chap, who wouldn't give any profit forecasts.

You cannot profit from the proceeds of crimes that take place abroad.

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The seed is a common adulterant of mustard seed (Brassica) either by chance or for profit.

A deliberate breach of the health and safety legislation with a view to profit seriously aggravates the offense.

She keeps a margin from selling airtime which makes up her profit.

He confirms that this cut applied to with profit annuitants as well as to pension and endowment investors.

In order to enjoy and profit from reading, pupils must achieve automaticity of word recognition.

These opinions have been based primarily on detailed examination and interpretation of company balance sheets, profit and loss accounts, and payment performance.

Without profit sharing an Islamic banking makes direct investment and equity financing a must.

This allows a bettor to close his position and take a profit or loss even before the event itself has ended.

By chasing profit, you become more bland, " is Duncan's take.

The Radon Council are a non profit making regulatory body for the radon industry.

You'll receive a competitive salary; performance-related bonuses, profit sharing and employer funded pension.

Workers in McDonald's make profit through their ability to cook burgers at very low pay rates.

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In the world of supermarket cartels, of course, profit is everything!

They made a business buying chicken feed with their own money and recouping the costs, with profit, from sales of eggs.

In the US, schooling is a $ 650 billion marketable commodity to be traded for a profit.

It can only be of profit then to learn how Boston dealt with intending communicants.

However, it's not just Asian cooking that can profit from the addition of a little coconut cream.

All the income derived from practice does not equal profit.

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These magazines are there simply to sell advertising, they are profit generating publications not educational or philanthropic publications.

In Miller's work the view that profit must outweigh humanity is often excoriated.

A keen eye had he for situations where a profit might accrue.

Once again the profit margins returned from the bulls have been a real eye-opener with a top gross of just under £ 2200.

To improve their profit margins, Insurance Companies began to establish their own fire brigades.

Marx argued that the main driving force behind capitalist crises lies in what he called the tendency of the rate of profit to fall.

How to understand and use cash-flow forecasts and profit and loss accounts and what information you would need to produce them.

We want to be the best professional fundraisers in the UK not for profit sector.

He will be a completely gross, vulgar farmer, totally inattentive to appearances, and thinking of nothing but profit and loss.

He has also returned the once heavily indebted weekly to profit.

This would offer a virtually inexhaustible source of profit for OPEC.

A man who had kin in a village in which there was a specialty would profit by such ties in trading.

It's quite something to say that you're a buy-to-let landlord or that you've bought and developed a property and sold it for a profit.

He doesn't sound like someone who would sign an irrevocable license allowing others to profit from his work.

More efficient harvesting techniques affect those species that profit from seed wastage (e.g. linnet, corn bunting ).

Their profit margins are likely to come under intense pressure leading to the possible closure of smaller chemists in rural areas.

The small or niche market has been responsible for many people making a nice profit from the Internet.

The solicitor I used was not really a rip-off merchant he was just an ordinary solicitor making a healthy profit like most other solicitors.

The profit motive test should not be applied here.

People have the mistaken notion that business is sales minus costs and expenses is equal to profit.

Rover tried to generate almost obscene levels of profit from the City.

It seemed obscene a private entity could profit off the imprisonment of fellow citizens.

We have received a profit of £ 5,000 on a capital outlay of £ 10,000 - 50% gross return on capital.

In a world where profit usually beats principle, how can socially responsible investment become palatable?

Released on February 14th 2005 at £ 9.99 every single penny of profit will go to UNICEF.

Sales revenues forged ahead, growing 19% year on year whilst operating profit increased by 15% .

These forces will continue to insist that all production should be aimed at maximizing profit.

The group that earns the most profit at the end of the project is the winner.

The company made £ 83 million pre-tax profit last year.

Rentals can normally be offset against taxable profit * .

Our retail energy supply gross profit grew by 14% to £ 95 million.

Tax is then charged o the net rental income profit.

As a result we even posted a small overall trading profit for the year.

The K-factor only affects the SCR, and so relates only to the impact of discretionary profit sharing in the stress scenarios.

There were many variations in the way this problem was tackled and in the amount of profit considered reasonable.

It is likely that profit remittances in the future will rise in response to the recent rise in FDI to Africa from the UK.

Rev A L Birkbeck - Asked whether any progress had been made over animal sentience versus profit.

That way you scoop up plenty of shares cheaply with each market setback, ensuring you make a decent profit in the long run.

To date no company has been able to get oil out of oil shale at a profit.

Beside, in my plan I clearly shew how much profit the Crown ought to get per annum.

In terms of operating profit margins Miller ranks sixth, proving it can compete with the majors.

Whatever the reason, profit or just plain stupidity, for showing these the people involved must be stopped.

Bonuses can be paid via employe profit sharing schemes, usually tax-free.

The hypothetical tenant in an ability to pay scenario is likely to have no profit motive.

Anyone selling a dose of heroin to a young girl like that for a mere tenner 's profit is surely beneath contempt?

This stops the short termers getting in who only want there 10 - 20% profit ove a few weeks.

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Why do amounts connected to a payroll item show up as unclassified on the profit & loss by class report?

Prithee, be silent, boy; I profit not by thy talk; thou art said to be Achilles ' male varlet.

You ca n't vilify the music companies for seeking to profit from their intellectual property that is just good business practice.

However, last month's profit warning was probably more traumatic than all three put together for Carnival investors.