How To Use Profits In A Sentence

During the take-over battle the stock quotations of both enterprises rose so that an investor would have to wait several hundred years to finance the purchase price of the shares from the present level of profits.
And when they have done ye wrang, even when ye hae gotten decreet of spulzie, oppression, and violent profits against them, what better are ye? The Waverley
The company profits grew by 5% last year.
Intel, the world's largest maker of computer chips, posted a 76 % drop in profits for the second quarter.
Many people confuse the workings of capitalism that lead to lower costs and greater profits with free trade.

They closed down after years of low profits.
The improvement has been across the board, with all divisions either increasing profits or reducing losses.
Rapid market growth and sector under-capacity encouraged Pilkingtons to expand and attracted new entrants to the marketplace without adverse effects on profits.
The disappointing profits are due to unfavourable currency translations.
Record profits in the retail market indicate a boom in the economy.
It is also the first provider to offer a with-profits investment option.
The inequity of allowing windfall profits to be appropriated by private landholders can thus be demonstrated more clearly than in George's day.
His Australian hosts piled on more pressure yesterday, saying that sweetheart deals that allowed corporations to dodge tax in countries where they made profits amounted to theft. Times, Sunday Times
A considerable amount of tax collection is now done, in effect, by casinos; rather than raise taxes to pay for services, legislatures legalize gambling and then take a rake-off from the profits earned by private casino companies. The Sack of Washington
It's a clever business tactic: Not only is the donation tax-deductible, but participating nonprofits bring in their lists, and shoppers are incentivized to buy, knowing the profits go to worthy causes. Artful Style on the Bowery
The supply line is the top line of the triangle and represents the overbought side of the market, when investors are going out taking profits with them.
If you strike it rich, you'll probably "reinvest" your profits in another turn of the wheel. Investing, After The Bubble Making It Back
It just shows that capitalists will turn to anything to make profits.
The investment banking arm has delivered strong profits growth in recent years by pushing both its clients' and its own capital into commodities and currency speculation. Times, Sunday Times
Its practice of paying the men their cash wages only once a month—a violation of Nevada law, which mandated semimonthly pay envelopes—guaranteed that the demand for scrip would remain robust and thus that the company store would continue to do “exceptionally good business with very gratifying profits,” as the Big Six board was informed that summer. Colossus
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Both industries are able to transfer intellectual property around the world, making it easier to justify recording profits in different countries. Times, Sunday Times
The use of subtherapeutic doses of antimicrobial drugs may drive down hog prices and lower profits for the entire hog industry, a new government report says.
And you are right, since salaries and general common people welfare dropped under retirement pension level (while profits and PIB soared during the 30 past year and more) it is the pensions that should be lovered, that makes sense ... Betanews
A windfall profits tax is exactly how it sounds; it is a higher tax rate on profits that ensue from a sudden windfall gain to a particular company. Ah, gerrymandering. | RedState
It has cut the final bonuses on its with-profits endowments and pension plans for the second time this year.
Using Companies House and other data, and cross-checking with industry sources, we estimated how each firm's profits were divided among its partners.
The singular aim of elite globalization is to maximize profits for international corporations.
It eats into their profits and for many of them the only good rabbit is a dead one.
It is also free from paying capital gains tax on profits. Times, Sunday Times
The company profits grew by 5% last year.
We don't have a charter and we don't have pressure from shareholders demanding profits and wanting to see readership figures.
There is talk of a massive fall in profits and a slump in turnover - talk that some outposts of the empire were simply not performing well enough to survive.
Their game plan is to boost profits by selling more goods at regular price, instead of last-minute markdowns.
(In fact, a 90 percent windfall profit tax on the bailout-created profits of the 19 largest banks would be the ideal way to promote a robust caulker jobs program.) Les Leopold: Clinton's Cash for Caulkers? Not enough Economic Insulation
In good years, profits from the second half more than cover losses from the first half.
The biggest determinant of junk bonds' success is the health of the economy and company profits. Times, Sunday Times
Its total group after-tax profits last year were 60 million. Times, Sunday Times
Such profits are endangered by the strike by about 500 United Auto Worker members who are demanding a contract with higher wages.
The ETF as envisioned is a great tool for silver investment for those unable or unwilling to buy, carry and store silver but what started as a way to encourage demand is now diverting demand from real silver which would tighten the supply and make us profits. Archive 2008-07-20
Suffice to say that BECAUSE we can sue employers for injuries and harassment at work, they're not in a position to take wanton liberties with the employees who generate their profits.
The marketers must accept the fact that it will take years to build the business volume that will return profits.
Increased production will, in turn, lead to increased profits.
In March 2004, the company announced plans to refit 50 stores and downsize its Big W chain to increase profits.
Business leaders know that fair but stable and competitive after-tax profits go hand in hand with job creation, investment and increased productivity.
In contrast to the general picture in the technology sector, data storage minnow InTechnology recently had to put out a cautionary note that its profits were likely to be ‘significantly ahead’ of general stock market expectations.
This is a hefty blow, considering that it represents half of the already poor profits the company expected to announce for its next interims on 23 November.
Giving them such empowerment is really investing in viable business capable of making long life profits.
Details on profits and dividend payments - as yet undivulged - are relevant, too. Times, Sunday Times
The company is expected to report record profits this year.
Profits, he said, had been ploughed back into the business, re-equipping the warehouse and expanding the sales team.
Investors therefore feel more confident about the outlook for company profits and stock markets.
The aborigines do hunt bears sometimes, attracted by the high profits.
A ban on this horrendous daily cruelty to thousands of animals would impact on the profits of food producers.
Now the company is growing and its profits are climbing. Going For It!: How to Succeed As an Entrepreneur
In addition, it is a mutual company and profits, if realised from its other businesses, are paid into the with-profits fund.
Overall, the group is expected to post pre-tax profits of £65m against £75m last time.
They have further hammered bank profits by wiping out the margin made on deposits. Times, Sunday Times
There is no heroism in butchery, no heroism in suicide, no heroism in writing that invokes, and profits from, the war you have left behind.
The majority of the firms are turning profits, they pointed out, unlike all those Web sites that went public in the late 1990s and hemorrhaged money.
Firms have an incentive to enter if the existing firms are earning positive economic profits. Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice
Passing on measly increases to savers isn't the only ploy banks have used to boost profits. Times, Sunday Times
The cow showers blessings on you as any business dealings with milk and milk-products bring profits.
Falling profits in the second and third quarters of 2002 seemed to substantiate the Fed's concern.
At least with the oilmen, I knew what I was dealing with and they did not even try to hide that they were focused on power, control, profits and sexist, macho gun-toting racist everything. Vivian Norris de Montaigu: Green Energy Boys Not So Different Than the Good Ole Oil Boys
Such housebuilders will always look for quick profits. Times, Sunday Times
It's hard to put a value on a company with large assets and turnover but low profits.
Profits fell during the third quarter.
In effect, the bookies would face a levy on profits to help those who are damaged by betting.
They struggled out of the red this year to post modest profits of NZ $6 million.
But these days, the chief executive of U.K.-based Kingfisher PLC, the world's third-largest home-improvement group, has a problem that no amount of do-it-yourself labor can fix: His company derives nearly half of its profits from continental Europe. CEOs' Message: Fix Europe, Or Else
Do firms try to maximize profits? Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice
While the children built up an atmosphere of camaraderie, the adults often feuded, competing for the profits of the deal.
Glencore's 2,000 employees share in regular distributions of its profits.
Customers are angry that the water companies continue to provide a poor service, while the bosses trouser enormous profits.
Profits so far this year are in line with expectations, with the residential side trading well. Times, Sunday Times
It's an ingenious hybrid where true believers provide the cannon fodder while an elite cabal of generals, arms merchants, land appropriators, oil prospectors and slave traders, muscle their way into the profits of war.
On a drive around the county's back roads, the sheriff pointed to new house after new house, some with mansard roofs, some with Palladian windows, that he said were built with drug profits.
Given the relative newness of the venture, it may be too soon to be talking about revenue, much less profits.
The bank yesterday revealed a 30 per cent nosedive in profits.
The business has had a bumpy ride over the last twelve months, but profits are growing again now.
Where profits are declared, tax relief tends to represent an extra bonus rather than a necessary incentive to foreign investors.
Higher interest rates can hurt stocks because they raise the cost of borrowing to expand businesses and cut into corporate profits.
Staff have accepted a deal offering them a 2% share of profits.
The shareholder also said he was dissatisfied with how the costs of about 200 billion yen ($US2. 23 billion) related to the latest recalls dented the company's profits in the fiscal year ended March. Toyoda Meets With Shareholders
The rise in the value of the dollar has depressed the company's earnings/profits this year.
The announcement came less than a week after interim pre-tax profits at the pizza group nearly halved after teething problems in the fledgeling German unit. Times, Sunday Times
If, however, a field be bought with the profits of usury, the usurer is bound to pay tithes on the produce, because the latter is not gotten usuriously but given by God. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
Recent losses have cancelled out any profits made at the start of the year.
Another of his profitable ventures was a school for slaves; Crassus purchased unskilled bondsmen, had them trained, and then sold them for handsome profits. Iris Erlingsdottir: Axing Art$ And Humanitie$
At least with the oilmen, I knew what I was dealing with and they did not even try to hide that they were focused on power, control, profits and sexist, macho gun-toting racist everything. Vivian Norris de Montaigu: Green Energy Boys Not So Different Than the Good Ole Oil Boys
Falling profits made it necessary to restructure the business.
More than 80 percent of its profits came from financial trading operations, dwarfing its earnings from pipelines and power plants.
They need to keep those profits to offset the days and years of warless peacetime. Think Progress » ThinkFast AM: June 21, 2006
Until the colonists managed to cultivate a lucrative staple crop, however, profits were not immediately forthcoming.
The system allows owners to pass profits and losses through to personal tax returns. Times, Sunday Times
Banks had huge profits in the pase few years, as a pct of all corps way over their long term average. Matthew Yglesias » Boring Into the Obama Stimulus Plan
RM: The interactive whiteboard maker announced a third successive year of record sales and profits. Times, Sunday Times
By holding down your wages, corporations fatten their profits, stock prices rise, and Wall Street's high-rolling investors rejoice.
Overall, the group is expected to post pre-tax profits of £65m against £75m last time.
This immediately indicates that demand for our goods remain stable, and that we have to adjust the input side, to realise bigger profits.
They got a small piece of the net profits and a screen credit.
The retailer said that it wanted to improve profits by ensuring that all invoices are processed so they are paid on time and in full. Computing
There are magnificent avenues of elm-trees, great gardens encircled by the moat, and a circumference of walls about a huge manorial pile which represents the profits of the maltote, the gains of farmers-general, legalized malversation, or the vast fortunes of great houses now brought low beneath the hammer of the Civil Code. A Woman of Thirty
Developers and equipment manufacturers, among others, would have no leverage on price, would see their markets shrink and their profits shrivel. Art Brodsky: Labor Leader's Lament: 'Where Are the Jobs' AT&T Promised?
It is the opposite of grinding out small profits away from prying eyes.
Everything (including profits) flows from this core value of serving the users.
You might think this immensely rich company would be satisfied with its vast profits.
The first is the cost of research and the need for profits to justify such costs; the second is the absence from virtual markets of the purely profit-based phenomenon of arbitrage.
Operating profits dropped by 18 percent to ￡105.9 million and interest charges were slashed by two-thirds to ￡5.4 million.
Third-quarter profits rose by 7 per cent compared with last year. Times, Sunday Times
Given lower sales forecasts, protecting margin is now the business imperative to maintain profits and cash. Times, Sunday Times
He said that the firm would reinvest much of its profits into technology. Times, Sunday Times
By most accounts, foreign shrimp farms are earning reasonably healthy profits.
In Singapore, there are no restrictions on the amount of capital investment, nor on the repatriation of capital or remittance of profits.
They say workers are made to pay with their livelihood for increased profits of corporations.
Most of his profits were gained by restoring to their owners the goods stolen by his own minions.
As such, the broker thinks there is a risk that the Government may clamp down on profits. Times, Sunday Times
Both profits after tax and earnings per share were also higher than last year at ￡50.1 million and 27.1 pence respectively.
The loud-mouthed dealer may well have made the company £100m in proprietary trading profits, but he also cost it £150m in damages.
The owner is making huge profits at the expense of downtrodden peasants.
If those companies believed there were profits to be made, they were right.
Within two years the affected mines had recovered sufficiently to have doubled and, in some cases, trebled their profits.
Get a head start on spring-cleaning and donate clothes, toys, furniture, household items, and old computers to nonprofits accepting them.
For the sake of a handful of people making huge profits the entire planet has been put in jeopardy.
Free entry and exit enables a potential entrant to adopt hit-and-run behaviour whenever the incumbent shows any signs of making above-normal profits.
These profits are going to necessary public services such as rehiring doctors in local hospitals.
The company began to make profits again with the new managing director at the helm.
Its main asset is the Ingka Holding group, which is conservatively financed and highly profitable: post-tax profits were €1.4 billion ($1.7 billion) — an impressive margin of nearly 11% on sales of €12.8 billion — in the year to August 31st 2004, the latest year for which the group has filed accounts. Flat-pack accounting « Isegoria
They must derive a large proportion of their profits from rental income. Times, Sunday Times
They have a proven record of bonus payments to their with-profits policyholders for every year since 1824.
Did you boost profits during the double dip? Times, Sunday Times
Profits were boosted by lower costs and the money it earned on the surplus cash.
However, in modern times many of these old cooperatives have demutualized and converted into stock companies to pursue higher profits.
In the mid-1980s, he gambled his export-quota profits on property and stock.
With parallel highways being paved, jitneys were inroading into profits.
Since most do not operate to earn profits, these enterprises do not pay dividends to shareholders.
A turnkey package would be offered in return for a down payment and a share of the profits.
People are expecting profits to reinflate, but I think we've still got a long haul before earnings have deflated to reasonable levels that will allow for decent future growth.
The levy was revised in February 1999 and only imposed on profits made from portfolio investments that were repatriated within one year.
A significant portion of the profits made on these deals comes from opportunistic financial engineering. Times, Sunday Times
When there is a surplus of the people resource it becomes a drain on profits. Personnel Management: A New Approach
The Commissioner of Inland Revenue made and confirmed assessments on the taxpayer for those years in respect of the profits from sub-licensing the films.
The rise in interest rates had a direct bearing on the company's profits.
Before all the red ink, profits were a modest 62 million. Times, Sunday Times
The price range between the lower cost-plus price and the higher value-based price signifies the additional profits available to a manufacturer that charges a value-based price for its product.
Government employment figures, compliant journalists and even the public might start to believe that the vast profits made by the company are being used for ‘investing in people’.
This enterprise is now on a firm footing and should soon show profits.
The retailer said that it wanted to improve profits by ensuring that all invoices are processed so they are paid on time and in full. Computing
For the sake of a handful of people making huge profits the entire planet has been put in jeopardy.
That's partly because the company decided that the timing was right in the first quarter to do the bulk of this year's securitization, in effect front-loading a big chunk of 2003 profits.
700 jobs will be lost in order to cut costs and boost profits.
Both increased capacity and competition will allow consumers to pay less, putting a dent into corporate profits.
Stripping out exceptionals and adjusting for onerous lease contracts, profits fell.
The big drug companies make huge profits.
She and assistant manager Lance Green had been instructed to improve profits at the expense of Burger King.
BRITAIN'S biggest pawnbroker has ousted its chief executive after blaming the plunge in the gold price for a sudden drop in profits. Times, Sunday Times
The banking arm of Scottish Widows will announce a huge 72% rise in pre-tax profits tomorrow and claim it is giving high street rivals a run for their money despite thinning margins and cut-throat competition.
Group profits slumped by 40 percent to ￡16.9 million last year, of which houses contributed three-quarters and development, a quarter.
The chief executive officer has spent much of the past decade criss-crossing the globe pushing the group's food ingredients business, which now accounts for over 70% of profits.
Third-quarter profits rose by 7 per cent compared with last year. Times, Sunday Times
The fuel supply chain is making opportunistic profits while sterling tanks. Times, Sunday Times
If you sell the house at the end of the period, the profits are sheltered from taxes, but the stocks are subject to capital gains taxes.
It is expecting pre-tax profits to come in at £31.9m on Friday, down from £39.6m last time.
After seeing its profits dented by Intel shortages the previous year, the direct-PC demon got its knickers in a twist over domain names and announced it was suing 23 people for alleged cybersquatting.
Analyzing how the cash flow statement reconciles profits with actual cash flows is also critical.
All profits were shared between the sports hall fund and a chosen sports charity.
As the ribbon is the auxiliary products, profits have been relatively modest, and the constant peer companies to join, rising raw material prices has led to increasing competition.
Oil companies were heavily criticized when they made large profits during the oil crisis of the 1970s.
Former staff describe a rude breadhead who siphons off the profits rather than paying his team their worth.
The competitive process arises out of disequilibrium in markets giving opportunities for entrepreneurs to exploit their superior information and earn profits.
To Mr Yunus and its other critics, the Mexican bank is no better than an old-fashioned loan shark, earning its huge profits by charging poor borrowers a usurious interest rate of at least 79% a year.
With collapsing technology shares and disintegrating manufacturing profits in an environment of general corporate over borrowing, there is now the clear specter of large-scale debt defaults.
Bad debt has hit the bank's profits this year.
In particular, we estimate the effect of herbicide-tolerant soybeans on herbicide use, crop yields, and farm profits using an econometric model that corrects for self-selection and simultaneity.
Much of the apparent growth in profits that occurred in the 1980s was the result of creative accounting.
He took a swipe at earlier press reports which claimed he would take advantage of the company and sell the properties as soon as he could after the two-year period to pocket profits.
But liberalisation could discourage long-term RD&D by emphasising short-term profits. Chapter 10
Bradford supermarket giant Morrisons today warned annual profits would be substantially below expectations as trading flagged at unconverted Safeway stores.
Some companies with the wherewithal to avoid taxes by magicking profits to some far-flung destination do precisely that. Times, Sunday Times
‘It was an idea I'd had for a while to make a CD of local unsigned musicians and give the profits to charity; and I realised if I wanted to do I should just get on with it,’ said Dave.
One bad harvest could wipe out all of a grower's profits for the previous two years.
Profits have risen by 15 per cent compared with the corresponding period last year.
Two-thirds of the profits are given to charities.
The Church was to receive a cut of the profits on every record sold.
I guess the best way to put this to the economically "challenged" is to put it in right-wing terms: "excessive profits" must be like "pornography" - everyone knows it when they see it. Fred Thompson makes debut appearance with McCain
Halfway pre-tax profits exceeded expectations but were still off by almost 20 per cent. Times, Sunday Times
There are big profits to be made in the international exotic bird trade.
If you have a qualifying with-profits plan, the lump sum you receive at the end of your term can be free of tax on income and growth. Times, Sunday Times
And profits were defended by courts, so they were not subject to the larcenous whims of the local sheikh or rajah.
In October 1956 he announced a plan for national development that had at its core a special incentive to encourage exports by a 50 per cent remission of tax on profits derived from increased exports.
Not surprisingly, many listed retailers saw profits shoot upwards as well, tripling in some cases.
Up to 11million of the gang's profits were laundered by crooked staff at a bureau de change. The Sun
Two quarrel and a third profits by it.
It added price rises would hit activity and profits may be squeezed. The Sun
Versace launched his fashion label in 1978 and the year before his death made pre-tax profits of £60m.
The Sunderland-based company, which runs trains in Wales, said its rail division boosted operating profits by 31 pc to 31.5 million in the year to December 31.
As for the military and industrial business, the 15% sales improvement we saw there didn't translate into much more profits, as warbot gross margins slipped 210 basis points. Lookit That Roomba Go! (BA, IRBT, LMT, RTN)
Manufacturing companies must analyse the profits arising for their shareholders and report these as they occur.
This will stoke fears in the City that the government is plotting a new clampdown on bank profits ahead of next year's general election. Times, Sunday Times

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