He gave up his law studies, and devoted himself to an unremunerative public work.
They have, to begin with, a genius for doing their duty, and doing your duty is an unremunerative occupation in this wicked world.
Duty is unremunerative here, but amusing oneself is remunerative.
Some of the Commissioners fixed rates on so unremunerative a basis as to defeat their object and to prevent the introduction of capital, and the construction of railways.
Leon Say as to the tendency to reduce railway tariffs to an unremunerative point when the State is the owner.
The danger that interested parties would, by political pressure, compel the State to expend public money onunremunerative lines and unremunerative services.
In other words, the railways during that period were paying interest on a considerable percentage of unremunerative equipment, besides the cost of its maintenance.
Last year attention was called to the unremunerative burdens imposed on the railways by the multiplying demands of legislatures and commissions for reports on every conceivable feature of their multifarious affairs.
The passenger service, except as precursor to the freight service, and in certain densely populated sections, was unremunerative in 1889 and is more so now.
Now, it is perfectly obvious that agricultural distress, by which I mean the continuance of a range of unremunerative prices, cannot long prevail in any district, without affecting the traffic of the towns.
Few in the entire Empire, with powers so versatilely pointing to an eminent position in any chosen direction, would have been content to pass their lives in an unremunerative existence devoted to actions of charity.
Yet,' replied Quen, 'the necessity for so laborious and unremunerative an existence may even now be averted by taking efficient precautions before you pass to the Upper Air.
Since then this very ill-clad and really necessitous person has devoted himself to the honourable but exceedingly arduous and in general unremunerative occupation of story-telling.
To make a picture, denotes that you will engage in some unremunerative enterprise.
To dream of a famine, foretells that your business will be unremunerative and sickness will prove a scourge.
The authorities in London thereupon ordered the Deputy in the province to discontinue all unremunerative services, a course of action which proved effective.
Moreover, it was not considered just that the letters of the people of the populous Eastern States should be taxed in order to provide unremunerative mail services to the remote and newly settled Western States.
This is particularly true of potatoes, which have sold at an unremunerative price, or at a loss, as a direct result of overexpansion of acreage.
Upon more careful inspection we find the wealth and luxury of our cities mingled with poverty and wretchedness and unremunerative toil.
Not the slightest provision had been made for the comfort of the employees, the idea being that something was gained by giving them as little and making the work as hard and unremunerative as possible.
Unremunerative employment, no doubt, especially to one ignorant of the art of working quickly, rather than well.
Medicine is becoming a more and more unremunerative profession.
No railway conceivably, of course, will chargeunremunerative rates for a long time.
It was not burdened by unremunerative branch lines.
Those omissions led the Treasury Committee of 1875 to say: "We fear the full cost of working these numerous and unremunerative offices is not realized [appreciated].
The consideration of the reasons for the financial failure of the State telegraphs may begin with the discussion of the effect of the building of unremunerative extensions.
They cannot have been part of the unremunerative Ghur-bund tuman; from their place of mention in Babur's list of tumans, they may have been part of the Kabul tuman (f.
The present depression of their occupations, the hard, steady, and often unremunerative toil which such occupations exact, and the burdens of taxation which our agriculturists necessarily bear entitle them to every legitimate consideration.
Of late years the competition of the importations of New Zealand lamb has reduced the price of English lamb to an unremunerative level.
He gave too much attention to these unremunerative studies of types she never met in actual life.
Indeed, there are various canals whose continued operation to-day, in spite of the losses on their wholly unremunerative traffic, is due exclusively to the fact that they are owned or controlled by railway companies.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unremunerative" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: abortive; barren; bootless; fruitless; otiose; sterile; unproductive; unprofitable
