surplus profit in a sentence

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1. Tawney opposed what he called the " acquisitive society " that causes private property to be used to transfer surplus profit to " functionless owners "  capitalist rentiers.
2. Agreement was reached with the Great Western Railway that the GWR would lease the SWR on completion of the line to Fishguard, paying 5 % on the capital plus half of surplus profits.
3. Windfall profit is a surplus profit whereby a higher selling price occurred as a consequence of the Ringgit depreciation riding on the backlash of the economic crisis that hit the country since the middle of 1997.
4. As a co-operative the Bank is owned by its customers and its main purpose is to create prosperity for these customers . the Co-operative Bank paid $ 1.3 million of surplus profit back to the majority of its customers.
5. A perpetual lease of the line to the Great Western Railway was agreed at this time, on the basis of a rent of 5 % on the capital of ? million ( shares and loans combined ) and half of any surplus profit.
6. However the theory became very important to neo-Marxists such as Ernest Mandel who interpreted late capitalism as a form of increasingly parasitic rentier capitalism in which surplus profits are obtained by capitalists from monopolising the access to resources, assets and technologies under conditions of imperfect competition.