| They're never going to be anything more than a profitless, subsidised, medieval craft collective. |
| The cycle of hopeful experiment followed by complete failure went on in profitless repetition. |
| As far as foreign investors are concerned, China has become a land of profitless prosperity. |
| The problem is that young people regard carving as a toilsome and profitless job. |
| If businesses became profitless, he said, entrepreneurs could not pay the salaries of employees and would not survive long. |
| As was amply demonstrated during the dotcom boom, many people bought shares in profitless, no-hope companies purely because the shares had risen substantially beforehand. |
