He invented an incandescent light bulb before Thomas Edison, but it was not commercially profitable.
In the last 10 years an influx of new capital has led to the creation of newspapers and periodicals that aspire to become commercially profitable.
Cable would already be competing in this market if educational programming were considered commercially profitable.
It is still a matter of debate, however, whether the colony was commercially profitable.
The major hardwood of Arabari is sal, a commercially profitable forest crop.
"I've never tried to prove anything," he told Downbeat magazine in 1952, "except that good jazz, properly presented, could be commercially profitable."
The rising value of natural gas - it has tripled in price in the last year - may make such a pipeline commercially profitable.
Although many of Wood's films were commercially profitable, her acting was criticized at times.
However, the company's hands are tied because the Government insist that the main consideration must be that bus services are commercially profitable.
Over the years it has grown from a small local labourers tavern into the commercially profitable venue that it is now.