8 sentences with “profitable”

The original impetus behind the EIC was profitable trade, not political power per se.

In the 1980s the only profitable industries in Russia were oil and vodka, and then oil prices began to fall for a decade.

Thus, mills remained profitable for peasants, and milled flour became the norm in most of Europe by the end of the 12th century.

Railway construction became a massive industry in its own right, fuelling both profitable investment and the occasional disastrous financial collapse.

Most of all, we'll have to convince ourselves that sometimes it's much more profitable to slack off than to get swept up in the hustle and bustle of modern life.

For most of the 17th century, the Dutch controlled an enormous amount of the hugely profitable trade in luxury goods and spices from the East Indies as a result.

Drofflader has just coordinated a team of researchers who set themselves the goal of determining which professions will be the most profitable in the next ten years.

This, in turn, led to widespread piracy and conflict between the powers of Europe in their colonial territories, as they sought to seize profitable lands and assert their respective monopolies.