How To Use Lucrative In A Sentence
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Soon the most lucrative function of the resurrected orbital was as an alien adventure park.
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I felt like a gleeful kid after a particularly lucrative Halloween expedition, and enacted the self-same rituals.
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But today the genre stands as a lucrative niche in an otherwise struggling fiction industry.
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A governorship was a lucrative and prestigious position, but it was not a sinecure.
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What has been your most lucrative work?
Times, Sunday Times
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She told how he had given up his lucrative career as a design draughtsman to ‘do the job he loved’.
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These two debacles take us right to the core of how service professionals handle and account for risk when they take on highly - lucrative contracts from clients.
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The old look out towers had to be manned against corsairs but they also earned their keep as observation points for the lucrative and highly organized hunts for the great shoals of tuna fish.
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In return the Chinese got a lucrative slice of the country's huge copper and cobalt reserves.
The Sun
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The final word, “scar,” might not refer to the one on Harry’s forehead, then, but to a new mark that appears on another person, now the bearer of Harry’s purified soul — and perhaps the protagonist of a lucrative new heptalogy.
Harry Potter Deathwatch
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Many providers offer lucrative interest-free deals, so to sustain these offers they need to charge interest and fees on other parts of their range.
Times, Sunday Times
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His crunching forehand winner on the last point sent him on a joyous, leaping celebration, and with lucrative reason.
Times, Sunday Times
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He saw through some lucrative deals for his players/clients, and became firm friends with many of them.
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Until the colonists managed to cultivate a lucrative staple crop, however, profits were not immediately forthcoming.
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Why would the these companies feel the need wrest control of the governing bodies, ignore conflicts of interest and insist on being able to hand-pick the researchers in areas of research as controversial and potentially as expensive and lucrative as climate change?
RP Siegel: What Price Impartiality? Top Universities Sell Their Reputations to Big Oil
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T's so-called postpaid net subscriber growth, which fell sharply in the first quarter from a year earlier, continued to lag in the second quarter, underscoring the difficulties of the wireless industry's most lucrative source of income.
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Constant turnover is the rule, as techies go where the coolest technology or most lucrative stock options are.
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These Schooners along with several other larger four masted Schooners and Barkentines would help pioneer the lucrative sugar trade from Hawaii to Californias C&H refiners near San Francisco.
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When the bank attempts to foreclose on her family home, Regina receives a lucrative job offer from Beth Davis, her former employer and an increasingly popular inspirational speaker with an almost cultlike following.
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No doubt the outdoor equipment industry would rub its hands in glee at the thought of such a lucrative threat to its customers.
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Over the years it has been the most lucrative business for me.
Times, Sunday Times
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Believe it or not, this guy actually is a mortician, running a lucrative funeral business in Richmond, Virginia!
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A gang of bank robbers come up with a plan for a lucrative armoured car robbery, but a determined police officer is closing in on them.
The Sun
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At a cost of just $45 million, the film may prove a lucrative investment for rebooting the puppet franchise across the spectrum of Disney platforms.
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He decided to turn his hobby into a lucrative sideline.
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This lucrative sub-industry has further blossomed in recent years due to efforts made by the wealthy founder of the Templeton investment fund, Sir John Templeton, to find harmony and consilience between science and religion.
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She has a lucrative business selling leather goods.
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Keen to preserve his artistic integrity, he refused several lucrative Hollywood offers.
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Organising talent, keeping their portfolios and hiring out services to television companies and advertising agencies can be a lucrative business.
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There is, in fact, a glittering array of dignified and sometimes very lucrative offices open to members of the Bar.
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During the Interior secretary's tenure, Taylor jumped to more lucrative work as a pumper, roughneck, and roustabout on Wyoming's oil wells.
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Even though film and television are more lucrative in terms of remuneration, theatre offers a true spiritual experience.
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Alexander pursued a lucrative itinerancy painting portraits in America, and when he had exhausted his possibilities, he returned to Scotland.
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Clive conquered and organized Bengal for the East India Company He first went to Madras as a clerk in 1743 and by 1749 had won the lucrative appointment of military commissary.
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To make their investment lucrative the newly appointed hospodars impoverished the people of Moldavia with high taxes.
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For years, resorts and hotels have offered layer upon layer of child-friendly amenities to lure the lucrative family market.
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His most lucrative sideline was what he called the mobile phone business.
KANDAHAR COCKNEY: A Tale of Two Worlds
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Expensive golf equipment makes rich pickings for thieves, and the lucrative nature of golf crime was highlighted by a recent theft from the pro shop at the Golf Club.
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It is likely to be covered by a celebrity magazine as part of a lucrative six-figure deal.
The Sun
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(East New York, Brownsville), Barron is the only Democratic member without a committee chairmanship or a lucrative annual "lulu" stipend.
Vos Iz Neias - (Yiddish:What's News?)
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As mayor, Brown must dismantle his lucrative law practice, which the financial report shows he began in April 1977.
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I expect they will be fed up until they're big enough to sell for meat because the pig industry is starting to become lucrative again.
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A circus strongman who specialised in bending steel bars, he found a lucrative alternative career digging out Egyptian antiquities for wealthy patrons.
Times, Sunday Times
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Online advertising firms are likely to be added to the list of media pitching for lucrative public information contracts under the new government.
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It deters people from buying new bicycles, while at the same time there is a lucrative trade in stolen models and this has to be examined.
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Major problems confronting CITES have resulted from the highly lucrative trade in the ivory from tusks of elephants.
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He was happy to accept their offer of a lucrative consultancy role to help garner votes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Time to make use of this area, and turn it into something more interesting, local, and lucrative (in terms of space leased from the city) than a Detroit-style arcade wasteland.
Thumbs Up on Chihuly at Seattle Center « PubliCola
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And many people are finding they can launch lucrative businesses stitching gifts from home.
The Sun
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Kenya's coffee plantations were lucrative and worked by African labourers; however, south Asians predominated on the railways and in the commercial sector.
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Wallström said the communities in lucrative mining areas were at a particular high risk.
Evelyn Leopold: UN Council Told to Act Against Rapists in Congo
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It is a lucrative business for gangs.
The Sun
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Mercator's plan to demerge its coal mining division is in line with moves by its peers in the shipping industry, which have announced plans to hive off their more lucrative non-shipping businesses to increase market valuation as well as offset the volatility of the shipping industry.
Mercator to Spin Off, List Coal Unit
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As Shadow Foreign Secretary, he will be able to keep lucrative directorships and after-dinner speaking engagements.
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What has been your most lucrative work and did you use the money to buy anything special?
Times, Sunday Times
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To its supporters, who include among others the British Government, which has signed a potentially lucrative contract with Odyssey to salvage a 17th century navy ship called HMS Sussex carrying bullion worth up to £500m, the Nasdaq-listed company, founded by a former advertising executive and a real estate magnate, is a reputable organisation that follows strict archaeological guidelines in its legitimate search for sunken vessels.
A £200m treasure hunt. Has Odyssey Marine found ‘La Vierge’? : Coin Collecting News
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The stardom of the cast of Basketball Wives, Love & Hip Hop and plus-ones like Amber Rose and Cat Stacks make being a groupie, jump-off, or an athlete/rapper's girlfriend seem like a lucrative career choice.
Sharief Easterling: Love & Hip Hop: The Coon Squad
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One of my many lucrative pre-bends is as a Serial Killer Parole Judge for Ontario.
Archive 2007-06-01
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Keen to preserve his artistic integrity, he refused several lucrative Hollywood offers.
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He meant palm oil, the lucrative production of which is eating up forestland.
Times, Sunday Times
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The cumulative rewards can be lucrative, and the experience can change lives.
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The North-West programme franchise remains highly lucrative, with under three years to go before renewal or a reshuffle.
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To begin with, prisoners are among the least lucrative of clients, and certainly the least sympathetic to juries, so that few lawyers are willing to litigate on their behalf.
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The ‘rest’ players get will either be spent playing lucrative friendlies abroad, or will be ruined by some other fixture pile-up caused later in the season.
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No doctor or nurse has been struck off as a result of the scandal, and bosses at the hospital left with big payoffs for lucrative jobs elsewhere.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her trip to Milan has been extremely lucrative for her budding career.
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A gay men's choir which performs hits by Neil Young and Radiohead has landed a lucrative record deal with the label behind Lady GaGa.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Claims handlers, who help policyholders pursue insurers, reckon that the most lucrative area is health insurance.
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No doubt the outdoor equipment industry would rub its hands in glee at the thought of such a lucrative threat to its customers.
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The union says New York-based Verizon Communication Inc. is seeking $20,000 per worker in annual concessions, and workers bristle that their jobs are being characterized as unprofitable when, they say, their work help build the company's lucrative, non-union wireless business.
FOXNews.com
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The illegal perlemoen trade is a lucrative business, with an estimated 150 poachers operating in the city alone.
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The most lucrative, in terms of quick turnover, was a deal he helped arrange while governor with former Tennessee Sen.
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On the most lucrative routes, the airlines may be assigned different time slots.
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And many people are finding they can launch lucrative businesses stitching gifts from home.
The Sun
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But what tempts these youngsters to leave the security of home and lucrative jobs for an austere lifestyle of development work in India?
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Barely 1,000 men here still fish for silver eel, with bag-shaped "fyke" nets or old-fashioned traps, and for glass eel with special dip nets - though glass eel fishing, centred on the rivers Severn, Wye and Parrett in the south-west, can be an exceedingly lucrative business.
The Guardian World News
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It takes a lot of work and dedication to make this kind of thing happen, and so in some senses that 85% that they retain is a bet that the best ideas that come in will actually be lucrative enough to offset their efforts in organizing the contest.
American Idol for apps launches | FactoryCity
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The region is renowned for its lucrative smuggling routes and bitter rivalries with neighbouring tribes.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the early 19th century, fur traders wiped out its seals; during the Gold Rush, a lucrative and larcenous trade in seabird eggs killed millions of common murres.
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Over the past few years, medical school graduates nationally have opted in increasing numbers to pursue careers in lucrative sub-specialties such as dermatology instead of in lower-paying areas such as primary care.
Yale Daily News: Latest Issue
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The cocaine trade being so lucrative, it encouraged disloyalty and betrayal.
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It wants the money spent on public infrastructure, providing lucrative contracts for business.
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What has been your most lucrative work and did you buy anything special with the money?
Times, Sunday Times
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The report says that technologies for mitigating — rather than adapting to — climate change dominate because they preoccupy the more advanced developing countries and are potentially more lucrative.
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The opportunities for lucrative trading and the profitableness of overproduction which they made possible became almost immeasurable.
Preaching and Paganism
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Indonesia is also a haven for the international trade in endangered animals, an illegal activity that ranks only behind drug trafficking in lucrativeness.
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While most newcomers who gain admittance to the NBA's lucrative members club pay their dues on court, he instead gambled vast sums that he had yet to earn in the hope of greater long-term fulfilment across the Atlantic.
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Russia is said to be one of the few countries that might see a net benefit from climate change, in longer growing seasons and by opening lucrative northwest shipping passages as pack ice retreats.
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We sell each egg for Nu 6 as opposed to private farms 'Nu 10 for each egg," Pema Wangdi said, adding that many private poultry farms had cropped up in the last few years, raising the lucrativeness of the business.
Kuensel Newspaper
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From 1780 to 1834 he held the lucrative sinecure of teller of the Exchequer.
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They have banked big payoffs and then moved on to lucrative new posts.
Times, Sunday Times
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Getting paid from ACORN while collecting their welfare checks is pretty lucrative isn't it?
Palin gives 'stirring' gun rights speech at NRA dinner, says group
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Logging concessions are stimulated by the wrong incentives: it is more lucrative to clear forestland for plantations than to plant on open and unproductive land.
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Beggars can't be choosers, but ironically this is the situation in which the second-richest club, in what is now the most lucrative league in the world, find themselves.
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It denied claims that it was prioritising more lucrative junk mail.
Times, Sunday Times
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Historically, it was the privatised railway's most lucrative network.
Times, Sunday Times
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They try to make it lucrative enough for the artisans, so that they will be able to make a living out of producing articles for the market, right round the year.
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For Burrell, however, who blames Charles for the stress he was put through in the court case, revenge has been sweet and very lucrative.
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NEW DELHI – IndiGo will begin international flights from Sept. 1, starting with Dubai, Singapore and Bangkok at initial return fares of 9,999 rupees $223, intensifying competition with other Indian and overseas airlines on these busy and lucrative short-haul routes.
IndiGo to Start Cut-Price Overseas Flights
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Defying the age of celebrity, and resisting the lucrative market for antiquities, the property owner kept mum about his treasure for decades.
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Everything she puts her name to sells like hot cakes and moving into the art world could be very lucrative.
The Sun
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In effect, however, they are acting as legmen for organized crime, which has turned southern Africa's stolen scrap into a lucrative industry.
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At the moment the birds are beginning to flock, so it is a lucrative time to do it.
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The demand for stronger beers and spirits lead to a lucrative trade during which Portuguese traders and Kavango people exchanged a bag of brown sugar for a heifer.
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These Schooners along with several other larger four masted Schooners and Barkentines would help pioneer the lucrative sugar trade from Hawaii to Californias C&H refiners near San Francisco.
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But maths is access to a lot of well-paid and lucrative careers.
Times, Sunday Times
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The nationalisation of the coal mines in 1946 meant the family lost control of their lucrative income stream.
The Sun
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So we are unwilling to walk away from a lucrative business deal that isn't entirely honest.
Christianity Today
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He gave an exemplary performance yet again and had this been the Oscars he'd have walked away with bagfuls of awards and lucrative contracts.
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He says he began representing amateurs to help the minor leaguers who get cut before they ever receive a lucrative major-league contract.
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NEW YORK — The wave of exchange mergers that has surged forth this week could make trading cheaper, thanks to potential cost-cutting in the lucrative fields of technology and market data.
Exchange Mergers Hold Potential for Lower Data Fees
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Thousands of Russians are now studying in America and Europe, and have acquired marketable skills, enabling them to land lucrative jobs.
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The country set sail in the early fifteenth century and never looked back, its explorers and navigators opening up lucrative trade routes to Africa and India.
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The next stage up is industrial espionage, apparently the most lucrative.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thus the trade, though lucrative, was quite separate from the rest of his thinking.
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Drinks makers have long viewed the Far East as a lucrative market, with spirits, particularly whisky, popular in the region.
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He then moved into the lucrative world of wholesale pharmaceuticals, buying and selling generic medicines.
Times, Sunday Times
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Since being noticed on the show and receiving two Golden Globes he has received numerous lucrative job offers.
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These churches engage in multiple business ventures from tele-evangelical services to lucrative music businesses and have slick websites offering ‘online shopping’.
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Born in Glasgow in 1850, he migrated at the age of four to Quebec, where his father built up a lucrative career in shipbuilding and lumber.
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This familiar toolbox of desktop computing is a huge and lucrative business, but demand for it has slowed.
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Sanrio, the company responsible for Hello Kitty, Little Twin Stars and a host of other cuties, has a billion-dollar turnover, much of it derived from the lucrative licensing of products from T-shirts to sex toys.
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Writing your childhood fave or something of the sort can be a dream come true, and even lucrative for a time.
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He switched on later to the lucrative clandestine trade of felling and smuggling of sandalwood trees.
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In theory, people will leave areas of unemployment and low wages to go to the areas where lucrative jobs are available.
Migrants in Modern France: Population Mobility in the Later Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
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Would it not then become a lucrative enterprise to take the legal, pure, potent ( "The most trusted name in meth") US-manufactured recreational drugs to Canada or France or Japan or wherever and sell them there, where they would presumably still be illegal and able to command a higher price?
US policy and Mexico's war on drugs
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Successful graduates are all now in full-time employment, some with their sponsor companies, while many were also headhunted into more lucrative positions.
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Some technology firms have built up patent-licensing businesses — following the lead of companies like International Business Machines Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. — and use lawsuits as a tool to win lucrative settlements.
Tech Firms Intensify Clashes Over Patents
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Those with assets also benefit from a lucrative industry devoted to shielding them from tax.
Times, Sunday Times
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Actually, the poster business is almost as lucrative as the advertising we get for the webzine.
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The agricultural district, in which rice and watermelons and fruits and vegetables were grown in abundance, suddenly discovered a new, lucrative alternative crop.
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While bassist and drummer are resigned to lucrative obscurity, the lead guitarist is almost famous.
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Although lucrative reconstruction contracts were awarded to American corporations weeks ago, order on city streets and countrywide water and electricity supplies remain unrestored.
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Unfortunately, the prats who drew up the accompanying map forgot to include three of Scotland's biggest, busiest and most lucrative harbours, namely Grangemouth, Leith and Rosyth.
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Ford lost the sales lead in the lucrative low-price field in the late 1920s to Chevrolet.
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Looking forward, Croatia could be a potentially lucrative market for political consultants.
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Therefore, it was imperative Dutch traders find new and lucrative markets to bolster their economy and provide the funds needed to continue the war against Spain.
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Logging concessions are stimulated by the wrong incentives: it is more lucrative to clear forestland for plantations than to plant on open and unproductive land.
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In the old days, even short story writing was lucrative enough to merit gimcrackery classified ads.
February 2008
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Iraq sparked a scramble for lucrative oil contracts in June, when Shahrastani opened bidding to 35 international companies for long-term contracts to redevelop six oil fields.
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It is no longer a dowdy game played by culchies; it is now cool, trendy and, of course, lucrative for businesses that are along for the ride.
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Vidocq served a lucrative apprenticeship with various ruffians, vagabonds and swindlers.
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His embrace of popular culture extended to the movie musicals of the time, which provided lucrative employment.
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They have banked big payoffs and then moved on to lucrative new posts.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Galaxy deserved the victory after dominating the contest to secure a title victory that validates the franchise's lucrative investment in a star-studded roster.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
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There are no personal bonuses for pulling in a big deal or winning lucrative litigation.
Times, Sunday Times
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And those pressures create a lucrative traffic in illegal workers, filling the war chests of criminals.
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Size and state-sector camaraderie allow China’s big five state banks to carve up lucrative loans for big government projects.
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Fashion went on a world tour of spectacular locations worthy of showing its most lucrative collections.
Times, Sunday Times
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He used Rease as one of a number of ‘foot soldiers’ to front lucrative crack dealing businesses in the city.
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Major oil companies gain foothold in Iraq multinational players are hopeful of lucrative developments in the future More than six-and-a-half years after the US-led invasion that oil companies to rebuild its ailing infrastructure during two today won the contract for one of Iraq's "supergiant" oilfields, as part of a two-day auction intended to boost dramatically the
WN.com - Articles related to 3G spectrum auction on schedule: Raja
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And the ministry's decision not to ban VLOCs reflected the competing needs of Chinese shipowners, who view the ships as a threat, and shipbuilders, who want lucrative construction contracts.
China Gets Tough on Superships
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Their incorporation into these pedigree herds as suckler dams or resale as in calf cows offers a very lucrative second-hand value.
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Michael Chabon, author of Wonder Boys, is careful to place his Summerland within the new and lucrative publishing bracket of ‘all ages’.
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Well, the US eastern seaboard is singularly devoid of precious metal ore deposits, which kept Spanish attention to the south, seeking more lucrative immediate spoils in Mexico and South America.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Giving Thanks For the Lack of Gold and Silver
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When all the ladies who lunch end up at a dude ranch in Reno for six weeks so they can qualify as Nevada residents and get quick divorces, their cook is a tough old cowgirl (played by Marjorie Main, who went on to star in the lucrative “Ma and Pa Kettle” comedies about a clan of hicks) who thinks the ultrafeminine New York women are silly and spoiled.
VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » “As Barriers Disappear, Some Gender Gaps Widen”
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She advised us to look abroad for more lucrative business ventures.
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He switched on later to the lucrative clandestine trade of felling and smuggling of sandalwood trees.
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Thousands of ex-army officers have found lucrative jobs in private security firms.
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At college he built up a lucrative sideline touring local church and jumble sales for clothes.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the post-socialist world of marketization and privatization, women tend to be employed in the public sector where jobs come with social benefits, men in the new economy of the private sector which is far more lucrative.
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The trade, though lucrative, was quite separate from the rest of his thinking.
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Had the plan worked it would have proved highly lucrative.
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Companies still rely strongly on outside pay consultants, and some of the same firms that advise companies on how much to give CEOs are paid even more in lucrative contracts for other services to the same companies.
USA TODAY analysis: Many CEOs took a pay cut in 2009
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Plissoud did not save any money; for, though he was appointed to many offices, they were all lacking in lucrativeness; he was insurance agent, as well as agent for a society that insured against the chances for conscription.
Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 2
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The company is now tendering for a lucrative contract from one of Hong Kong's biggest bus companies.
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Perhaps not, but Lemaitre's rise to fame – and subsequent lucrative sponsorship deals – has led some black athletes in France privately to question the fairness of a sprinter benefiting from such commercial success, despite not making even the top 10 fastest men in the world.
Christophe Lemaitre, France's premier blanc, seeks grand cru status
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Just now, when every one is bound, under pain of a decree in absence convicting them of lese-respectability, to enter on some lucrative profession, and labour therein with something not far short of enthusiasm, a cry from the opposite party who are content when they have enough, and like to look on and enjoy in the meanwhile, savours a little of bravado and gasconade.
Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
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If they stay in the top six, they will be guaranteed a berth in one of the four most lucrative bowl games.
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Why not roll up your sleeves and snap up those lucrative implementation gigs?
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In the early 19th century, fur traders wiped out its seals; during the Gold Rush, a lucrative and larcenous trade in seabird eggs killed millions of common murres.
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The massive fall-off in lucrative television revenue means a drop of at least £14m.
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But this could be at anytime and anywhere in the world, meaning they have to drop other lucrative work opportunities.
The Sun
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National prohibition provided lucrative illegal markets, which some Italian Americans successfully exploited through bootlegging operations.
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Apparently, Rich wants to make sure that once his performing career dries up he's still got a lucrative career as a country tunesmith, but it's a shame that he feels the need to zero out to do it.
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There was a modern building to move into and lucrative development grants.
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Is it patriotism and loyalty to her home country that keeps her from doing so, despite what I can't help but see would be more lucrative opportunities playing for the US as a young, beautiful and highly-rated female chessplayer?
Article on Alexandra Kosteniuk
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Designing multi-million pound courses can be a lucrative business - even more profitable than the winnings of many top pros.
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College hoops is a big-time spectator sport with a lucrative TV deal.
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At college he built up a lucrative sideline touring local church and jumble sales for clothes.
Times, Sunday Times
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If they do, they won't receive the coveted UEFA license allowing those who qualify to play in lucrative continental competitions like the Champions League or the Europa League.
European Soccer Goes Feudal
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The practice is not a very lucrative one at the moment, but if it is worked up it should prove quite profitable.
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Beekeeping is a lucrative sideline for chestnut growers, as is selling the bolitus edulis growing under trees.
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He acknowledges, jokily, that separated parents could be more lucrative, doubling the orders.
Times, Sunday Times
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He then moved into the lucrative world of wholesale pharmaceuticals, buying and selling generic medicines.
Times, Sunday Times
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While letter delivery in the UK is a lucrative market, the profitability of door-to-door services is not uniform throughout the country.
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And as long as the financial rewards for success are so lucrative there will always be an incentive to cheat in order to gain any advantage.
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What is the most lucrative work you have done?
Times, Sunday Times
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The club has championed a campaign to host a new tournament on the lucrative European Seniors' Tour programme next year.
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And he had, with an effectiveness which won him a chestful of medals before he swapped the Legion for a more lucrative living.
FINAL RESORT
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Investing in a company that is liquidating is playing in a high-risk arena that can be lucrative when done right.
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Within a year of the passing of the Prostitution Control Act, it was revealed that Victorian sex industrialists were involved in the lucrative international sex trade run by crime syndicates, which is worth $A30 million in Australia Robinson, 1995.
Legalization of Prostitution in Austrailia
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Each day that revealed to him the lucrativeness as well as popularity of his new profession, saw him more and more convinced that he had found his calling at last.
The Two Rebellions; or, Treason Unmasked.
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Their wallets are only large enough to contain lucrative images.
Why I Choose to Live Carfree « PubliCola
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That he is now consigned to the lucrative wilderness inhabited by cricket's freelance mercenaries is sad but not surprising.
Times, Sunday Times
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England instead of despotic Russia, it is doubtful if he could work out his discovery of the electrotype -- we say _doubtful_; for, as far as we can learn, it seems hitherto judicially undecided whether the mere use of a patent, not for sale or a lucrative object, is such a use within the statute of James as would be an infringement of a patentee's rights.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.
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Insiders last night claimed she was furious that her co-host had been offered lucrative high-profile jobs.
The Sun
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As Lord Grenville's office of auditor of the exchequer was thought incompatible with that of first lord of the treasury, and as his lordship was unwilling to resign that lucrative office, a bill was subsequently brought into parliament empowering him to name a responsible trustee for holding auditorship so long as he should continue premier.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
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The lucrative 1946 tour was especially welcomed by the chronically underpaid "blackball" players.
Barnstorming in Black and White
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It's a phenomenally lucrative combination, analysts say.
