I'm first going to recognize the obvious "true" answer which is that by holding the price of crude high, they make cleaner alternatives less unlucrative (though perhaps not yet profitable). ❋ Unknown (2009)
It was under the Kamehamehas, long before, that he had served his own country as Chinese Consul -- a position that was not altogether unlucrative; and it was under Kamehameha IV that he changed his citizenship, becoming an Hawaiian subject in order to marry Stella ❋ Unknown (2010)
Mankell, for instance, wrote seven well-received but unlucrative novels, and more than a dozen plays, before turning to a life of crime; Karin Fossum was a prize-winning poet; Maj Sjöwall was an editor and translator. ❋ David McDuff (2009)
He is a respected lawyer, but he has spent his career in the unlucrative fields of labor law and advocacy for the poor. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Then it shut some high-cost factories abroad, dropped some unlucrative products and cut the design time for new chips. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Truly, Lamb House was no sanctuary, but rather a “small, crammed and wholly unlucrative hotel,” and the hermit no meagre solitary but a tough and even stoical man of the world, English in his humour, ❋ Unknown (2002)
However, about half of Triangle's annual sugar production of 200,000 tons goes to the relatively unlucrative home market, and most of the rest is exported to the European Community under special trade agreements at around $450 per ton. ❋ Unknown (1993)
The life of the gipsy is not unlucrative: his wants are few and coarse, and the calls upon him are scarcely any. ❋ Various (N/A)
As far as he hated anything, he hated this work of his; long ago, had he been alone concerned, he would have dropped it, and taken to tramping the roads with boot-laces to sell, or some other equally unstrenuous and unlucrative avocation. ❋ Rose Macaulay (1919)
It was under the Kamehamehas, long before, that he had served his own country as Chinese Consul -- a position that was not altogether unlucrative; and it was under Kamehameha IV that he changed his citizenship, becoming a Hawaiian subject in order to marry Stella ❋ Unknown (1912)
I am gratified at this action of the Foundation, not solely because it secures against want the old age of men who have given their lives to an unlucrative but noble profession, but in a higher sense because such action signalizes ❋ Unknown (1911)
So Kennard stayed on, unable to tear himself away from her, and obtained an unlucrative post as accountant in ❋ Emmuska Orczy Orczy (1906)
We have been enjoying a very pleasant and not unlucrative time for the last six weeks, with the -- er -- natural result that there are several ladies and gentlemen in London whom I would just as soon avoid. ❋ Unknown (1906)
It was simply an unlucrative exchange of so much broken iron between two sensible and prudent nations. ❋ Henry W. Nevinson (1900)
St. Louis 'confessor at Paris for the endowment of scholars, desirous of studying the unlucrative but vital subject of theology, was soon imitated by the chancellor of Henry III. ❋ Reginald Lane Poole (1892)
And can you expect that men, who make as little use as possible of Heart, that unlucrative commodity -- who only exercise Reason for shrewd purposes of gain, not wise purposes of good, and who might as well belong to ❋ Martin Farquhar Tupper (1849)
To top it all off, I had chosen my University because it had enjoyed a reputation as “the” technical/IT University in our State – at least when I did my first degree in the 90′s; Australia was also discussing its critical shortage of skilled workers in areas like IT, and having to “import” workers; and IT is not “unlucrative” like, say, Classical Languages (* cough*) - and yet here was this University underfunding its own IT Dept.! ❋ Unknown (2008)
