You couldn't really make any money selling marijuana.

The Middle East is a potentially lucrative nearby market.

It doesn't necessarily predict a win win outcome.

Seeing no profit in it, nations avoid war.

Trafficking in human organs thus provides lucrative openings for organized criminal groups.

And all the lines of business that had been profitable before the downturn would become profitable once again.

Global trends and analysis suggest a lucrative market for the nuclear fuel in the next decade.

Encouraging a shift to legal cash crops and food requires time and heavy investment.

Excavated archaeological objects of cultural significance make a lucrative trade for unscrupulous dealers operating both locally and internationally.

US debt hardly looks like a bargain right now, even without the sinking dollar.

This is why banks suddenly look so unexpectedly profitable.

There are very few people who have been able to make the writing technique marketable, and as a result, I only do it in my free time.

And, given such riches, competition might appear lucrative at first sight. But cooperation stands to enlarge the pie.

Since raising livestock has proven to be profitable for the people of Botswana, the land continues to be exploited.

Cotton growing became so profitable for the planters that it greatly increased their demand for both land and slave labor.

The fact that the Geithner Plan is likely to be profitable for the US government is, however, a sideshow.

And countries facing depressions and rapidly weakening inflation typically face very low borrowing costs investors purchase government bonds for want of profitable alternatives.

A big factor that contributes to the existence of viruses, spam, and the like is their lucrativeness.

The goal is to create conditions allowing people to lead a normal life and to engage in profitable economic activities, unfettered by the radiation factor.

For the aristocracy, a personal union with Spain would prove highly profitable for Portugal at a time when the state finances were suffering.

The United States Ambassador at the time is repeatedly quoted as suggesting that Berlusconi has a financially enriching relationship with the Kremlin.

Microfinance institutions, such as Bangladesh s Grameen Bank, play a vital role in allowing self employed women to build profitable businesses.

The LTRO enabled Spanish and Italian banks to engage in very profitable and low risk arbitrage in their own countries bonds.

Likewise, the Russians have just erased much of Iraq s debt and agreed lucrative oil drilling deals.

They added that Cuban gas could be economically converted into liquid products such as gasoline or diesel fuel through the construction of a conversion plant.

New investments, lines of business, and worker firm matches that would be highly productive and profitable at normal levels of capacity utilization and unemployment are unprofitable now.

Major markets for charcoal originating in Somalia are Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen, where businesses do a lucrative trade in the commodity.

At the core of the commercial interests was pursuit of profitable trading activities under the protection of the Reich, but these entities were determined to stay away from political engagements.

War not only generates instability, in which organized crime thrives, but provides opportunity for illicit enrichment, through the creation of profitable markets for smuggled goods.

At the same time, while China represents a huge market in the ever receding future, it has not been an especially lucrative market for Google so far.

Indeed, there is a long tradition of retired police parachuting into lucrative posts in Pachinko, the de facto gambling industry and, to a lesser extent, across the public gambling sectors.

Increasing corruption within governments run by the Congress party, which led India to independence and monopolized political power for decades, showed what a lucrative career politics had become.

While some pharmacologists dedicate their lives to searching for the cure for cancer, regardless of any monetary incentives, many are driven by the hope of securing a lucrative patent.

(d) Call upon Member States to develop work programmes in road safety, noting that these programmes should be seen to be profitable investments for Governments to undertake

We can do it by jump starting with an industrial Lewis and Clark expedition to Shackleton crater, to mine the moon for resources, and demonstrate they can form the basis for a profitable business on orbit.

A carbon tax can help preserve the atmosphere while also discouraging some of the most exotic and risky energy exploration activities by making them unprofitable.

New products stall, old products are not as profitable as they once were (because competitors figure out how to make something better), and markets and consumers move on.

Such investments may not be as profitable as in other regions, but they should be regarded as public goods intended to equalize conditions for growth.

Moreover, real interest rates will rise, owing to policy uncertainty, rendering many investments that are truly socially productive unprofitable.

You don t particularly want to lend them out every day, but if someone is willing to pay, say, 200 to rent them for a dinner party, the trouble might be worth it. So you can set a high price to offset the inconvenience and make money on the side.

The partnership followed on from a rebranding from the name Hyde United and a lucrative kit sponsorship by Manchester City's charity arm City in the Community for a sum which saved the Conference club from bankruptcy.

The big banks play on this fear, arguing that financial reform will cause them to become unprofitable and make them unable to lend, or that there will be some other dire unintended consequence.

Part of Hariri s legacy was the award of quasi monopolistic licences to cronies for mobile telephones, for example and the sale of government debt at highly profitable rates to local banks in which had a direct interest.

As a result, the total value of imports is expected to exceed 10 trillion in only two years, providing lucrative investment opportunities and broader markets to foreign investors.

The Lebanese merchant, on the other hand, will try every trick in the book to outbid, outsmart, outwit and outdo the customer such that he comes up on top and still manages to convince the customer of the great bargain he has made. Case in point Canned Lebanese Air, or Hawa Lebnan.