6 sentences with 'profits'
Example sentences and phrases with the word profits and other words derived from it.
• « Flush with profits, these seven booming Asian countries are investing heavily in giant infrastructure projects. »
• « Henry's share of the profits amounted to about $25,000, although he had not contributed a cent. »
• « Her newsletter, Release 1.0, earns her steady profits, while her high-tech conference, PC Forum, attracts hundreds of cyber celebrities each year. »
• « Shipments of Chinese silk moved along the aptly named Silk Road through Central Asia, directly linking the two most powerful empires in the world at the time (via, as mentioned above, Persia, which made huge profits in the process). »
• « The rise of Turkish power in the east posed a problem for the east-west trade routes that Italian cities had benefited from since the time of the Crusades and, despite the agreements reached between Venice and the Ottomans, the profits to be made from the trade in spices and luxury goods diminished (at least for the Italians) over time. »
• « Some of this was undoubtedly born of anti-Muslim prejudice, but there was also the simple fact that the Ottomans now directly controlled an important link in the East-West trade axis, making profits that Europeans wanted for their own. »