How To Use Affluence In A Sentence
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No place on the planet can remain an island of affluence in a sea of suffering.
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And in such a case envy will be sure to work and boil up to a more than ordinary height, while the envious person frets, and raves, and swells at the plenties and affluence of his abounding neighbour, and (as I may so express it) is even ready to burst with another's fulness.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
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Age and a comparative, hard-fought, affluence have undoubtedly helped propel them rightwards.
Times, Sunday Times
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When you mix Asia's rapidly spreading affluence with the region's cultural affinity for brand-name luxury goods, you have a mouthwatering recipe for Richemont, owner of such well-known lines as Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels jewelry, Piaget watches, Montblanc pens and Alfred Dunhill leather goods.
To make good stock decisions, consider a global perspective
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Now, in our new climate of national affluence, wealth and all its trappings seem available to anybody determined enough to have them.
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As the Observer reports, it draws on work in the London borough of Newham (inner city and diverse); Cambourne in Cambridgeshire (a new purpose-built community), and Salisbury, Trowbridge and Devizes (rural towns with pockets of affluence).
Rude Britannia? Don't you believe it | Observer editorial
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Binford, following upon this idea of hunter-gatherer affluence, proposed that preagricultural peoples living the good life would live it where it was best, in those optimal ecological zones where the most plentiful supplies of wild plants and animals could be found.
The Goddess and the Bull
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There was Marco in grimy apron plating up, or opening scallops, looking every inch the piratical hero, with his long black hair and sunken eyes and high cheek bones, surrendered long ago to his new-found affluence.
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For every one rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes indigence of the many.
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All everyone wants is pleasure, money, affluence - no matter how mundane or how temporal it is.
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Progress against the diseases of affluence is sadly slower.
Times, Sunday Times
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These seem likely to reflect income and affluence rather than tenure status.
Home-ownership - differentiation and fragmentation
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N&S critique the presumed attachment of environmentalists to romanticist premodernist images of society and celebrate economic modernization, along with the growing affluence, individualization, and freedom that this social process creates.
Joseph Romm: Memo to Media: Don't be Suckered by Bad Analyses from the Breakthrough Institute
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For them, affluence was bought at the price of less freedom in their work environment.
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The rich move away from urban centres as affluence increases.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Hitherto she had accepted their ideals without questioning -- their kindly affluence, their inexplosive religion, their dislike of paper-bags, orange-peel, and broken bottles.
A Room with a View
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What effects they might suffer in their remaining years – my winter beachhouse in the keys was damaged by an especially harse hurricane so I had to rebuild by sinking poles 40′ down – are easily offset by the adaptability their affluence affords.
Think Progress » Attacking Global Warming Science: Where There’s George Will, There’s a Way
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At the Morning Star Ranch in Marin, the residents called their way of life "voluntary primitivism," a design for living that transcended both excessive affluence and minimal hygiene.
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Houses gone out of people's reach, rents spiralling, inadequate hospital services, too few places for children at risk - it's all there under the cover of affluence.
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So that the rest of the world in its growing affluence can eat beef.
Times, Sunday Times
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A decade of affluence and stability has created a backlash.
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Since 1900, the U.S. population has quadrupled, affluence has septupled, GDP has increased
Cato @ Liberty
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Berry is a vocal critic of what he calls the glamour of newness, ease, and affluence; and a champion of distraction.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT
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While I sat quietly munching on my corn, I couldn’t help but think of a recent study conducted by Focalyst, which sheds new light on boomer affluence and dispels a common myth: nearly every baby boomer is an ATM machine, with so much money they don’t know what to do with it.
Boomer Elites (The Boomer Blog)
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At the core there is affluence, relative security of employment and a cosmopolitan culture based on networking with peers in a global cultural environment.
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Rising expectations were fuelled by increasing affluence and a widening gap between people's experiences in other sectors of consumption and public services.
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It's a sign of our growing affluence that often where children once rode bicycles they now churn up paths on ear-splittingly noisy motorbikes.
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Think about it: industrialist builds wealth by building stuff; rich heirs drift leftward and, in adolescent fashion, rail against the industry that provided them with their affluence.
Matthew Yglesias » Five State Solution
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Much greater wealth is concentrated in ever-decreasing numbers of centres of affluence.
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He goes on publishing the book and as many of his confederates as choose to go into the conspiracy do so, and they rear families in affluence.
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Such high-minded scorn for the '90s and the general affluence and calm they represented is an eminently understandable sentiment.
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Reaching a goal of zero net deforestation will require reducing the pressures to deforest that come from population growth, rising affluence, the construction of ethanol distilleries and biodiesel refineries, and the fast-growing use of paper.
Earth Policy Institute: Planting Trees and Managing Soils to Sequester Carbon
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Thus did Western Man decide to abolish himself, creating his own boredom out of his own affluence, his own vulnerability out of his own strength, his own impotence out of his own erotomania, himself blowing the trumpet that brought the walls of his own city tumbling down, and having convinced himself that he was too numerous, labored with pill and scalpel and syringe to make himself fewer.
Barbarians inside the gates « Anglican Samizdat
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But the practice of inhaling fumes from volatile substances is not generally associated with affluence and success.
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The church was being given a taste of how the world works - its lopsidedness, its patchy rhythm of muchness and emptiness, of affluence and desolation.
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The relative affluence of the South East appears to have increased and the centre of economic gravity may have moved further south.
Home-ownership - differentiation and fragmentation
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If you are admitting that an important part of the signal is a social signal, then there's no way for an entrepreneur to compete on price - When you're dealing with social cues of affluence, the price tag is an key part of the signal.
Overcoming Signaling, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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The postwar era was one of new affluence for the working class.
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In the 20-odd years since the founder's pet first appeared on islanders' T-shirts, the Black Dog has become synonymous with a certain beachy New England affluence.
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According to Dr. Srinivas, once we are able to refresh our memory of our rich past and our timeless heritage, we would be in a position to rededicate ourselves to reviving the affluence and wisdom of India.
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There is a lot of affluence in this part of the state because it has many businesses.
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This has confounded the expectation that increased affluence, education, and contact with the outside world would reduce the preference for boys.
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No place on the planet can remain an island of affluence in a sea of suffering.
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As he felt the young fellow's eyes upon him he recalled the effusive piety of his conversation at Tyler Sudley's house, his animadversions on violin-playing and liquor-drinking, and Brother Peter Vickers's mild and merciful attitude toward sinners in those un-spiced sermons of his, that held out such affluence of hope to the repentant rather than to the self-righteous.
The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895
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Progress against the diseases of affluence is sadly slower.
Times, Sunday Times
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Horace), is proper only to be frequented by princes and other great men in the highest affluence of fortune; the subterrestrial is appointed for the entertainment of the poorer sort of people only, whom Horace advises,
The Works of Henry Fielding Edited by George Saintsbury in 12 Volumes $p Volume 12
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Affluence was hardly a protective factor for car owners.
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So that the rest of the world in its growing affluence can eat beef.
Times, Sunday Times
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Western affluence has also become the occasion for moral decline in general and the growth of sexual perversion in particular.
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Born with a legal claim to honour and to affluence, he was in two months illegitimated by the Parliament, and disowned by his mother, doomed to poverty and obscurity, and launched upon the ocean of life only that he might be swallowed by its quicksands, or dashed upon its rocks.
Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1
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Most population researchers agree that population growth quickly slows with a level of relative affluence.
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Born with a legal claim to honour and to affluence, he was, in two months, illegitimated by the parliament, and disowned by his mother, doomed to poverty and obscurity, and launched upon the ocean of life, only that he might be swallowed by its quicksands, or dashed upon its rocks.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II
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So that the rest of the world in its growing affluence can eat beef.
Times, Sunday Times
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Though some might even argue that it's beaucoup plus cocktail than London, what with its particular brand of super flashy footbally affluence and designer glamour.
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This is the consequence of peace and affluence: what matters most to the country matters least to the people, and the only way they can be persuaded is by using the same warm kind voice they heard as they drowsed in the cradle.
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The war and the expansion that followed created a culture of mobility and middle-class affluence unmatched in the history of the world.
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However, affluence and technological advances have created new kinds of safety hazards for people who live in Western society.
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The resplendent Lord bestows affluence on the devotee who offers worship and oblations.
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The city's relative affluence has long been reflected in its property values.
Times, Sunday Times
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No place on the planet can remain an island of affluence in a sea of suffering.
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We may observe in passing that similar tendencies are at work even in some of the richest countries, where they manifest as a trend toward excessive urbanization, toward "megalopolis", and leave, in the midst of affluence, large pockets of poverty-stricken people, "drop-outs," unemployed and unemployables.
Chapter 10
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But my own growing affluence has increased my distance.
Between Worlds: A Reader, Rhetoric and Handbook
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They have been further homogenized, and secularized, in the postwar years of relative affluence by American-style middle-class consumerism.
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As soon as the moving vans roll down the street, here come the transforming architects, the floor sanders, carpenters, decorators as another family prepares to put the stamp of affluence on an old address.
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She gets fired, her husband resigns in solidarity, and the couple moves to the cloudless suburban affluence of Stepford, Connecticut.
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Their affluence is more apparent than real.
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Then, after the war, increasing affluence brought more toys for children - tin soldiers, tops, and dolls made of an exciting new material called plastic.
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This youthful triangle becomes the centre of the story, a generation adrift because their parents, too, have lost their moorings in a suburban sea of affluence and anxious anomie.
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Furthermore, the same affluence encourages an increased array of leisure time activity choices.
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Women who aspired to social prominence extended the confinement period before birth and the lying-in period afterward to testify to their affluence and physical delicacy.
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Some of them want to flaunt affluence in all sorts of ways while others subdue their inclination to spend or buy property.
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Zurich's affluence came initially from cornering a sizeable chunk of the 14th Century silk trade.
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To the casual visitor Cheltenham is a thriving shopping centre, a centre of affluence which attracts all the best names.
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To the casual visitor Cheltenham is a thriving shopping centre, a centre of affluence which attracts all the best names.
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Their affluence is more apparent than real.
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She was taken out of poverty in a back-to-back house in Bradford, where her divorced mum had to bring up six children, into middle-class affluence.
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Even so, most of us enjoy an affluence the majority of the world envies.
Times, Sunday Times
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The resplendent Lord bestows affluence on the devotee who offers worship and oblations.
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‘Be!’ and it becometh; what I most wonder at is his understanding, how it hath increased, and whence he hath gotten this loftiness and this lordliness; but, when Allah willeth weal unto a man, He amendeth his intelligence before bringing him to worldly affluence.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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In the vehemence of their indignation, the general public somewhat forget that poverty and affluence can be equally conducive to moral depravity.
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The flamboyant court of Burgundy was a spectacular expression of princely prestige and affluence.
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The film is also interesting as an illustration of newfound working class affluence and aspirations.
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And then there is the feeling that that kind of semi-poverty, which has in itself something of the pleasantness of independence, when it is borne by a man alone, entails the miseries of a draggle-tailed and querulous existence when it is imposed on a woman who has in her own home enjoyed the comforts of affluence.
He Knew He Was Right
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In a landmark 1970s study, Paul Ehrlich and others described the relationship formulaically as IPAT Impact = Population × Affluence × Technology; see www.stirpat.org.
When a Billion Chinese Jump
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Ironically, in the prosperous 1990s, expensive cigars enjoyed a resurgence of popularity as a badge of affluence.
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These seem likely to reflect income and affluence rather than tenure status.
Home-ownership - differentiation and fragmentation
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She had looked so exceptionally well-dressed the previous evening he had supposed that what she called ruin was comparative affluence, for Bruce had not yet learned that clothes are unsafe standards by which to judge the resources of city folks, just as on the plains and in the mountains faded overalls and a ragged shirt are equally untrustworthy guides to a man's financial rating.
The Man from the Bitter Roots
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This tale of two nightclub hostesses (played by Sylvia Syms and June Ritchie) unfolds in a deracinated Britain where moral certainties are being eroded by affluence.
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The charity's current assets of just over 20 million suggest great affluence.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The relative affluence of the South East appears to have increased and the centre of economic gravity may have moved further south.
Home-ownership - differentiation and fragmentation
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These seem likely to reflect income and affluence rather than tenure status.
Home-ownership - differentiation and fragmentation
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In this seat of felicity is every enjoyment which fancy can form, or friendship, with affluence, bestow; but still my mind frequently returns to the happy shades of my nativity.
The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton: A Novel Founded on Fact
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And in between acts, earnest spokesmodels touted the latest in consumer products that would enable you to conform to the rigors of post-war affluence.
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So it seems to me that this marked increase in cars is a good indicator of rising affluence.
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What we are seeing increasingly is a society of private affluence and public squalor.
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Changes in the family cannot be separated from changes in the structure of the economy, the expansion of the idea of rights, and increasing affluence.
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The era was also one of prosperity and affluence, an era of material plenty.
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All these amenities suggest a degree of affluence and urbanity remarkable for a country village in northern New Hampshire during the first half of the nineteenth century.
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“The Americans have plentifully enjoyed the delights and comforts, as well as the necessaries of life,” said the Newport Mercury, “and it is well known that an increase of wealth and affluence paves the way to an increase of luxury, immorality and profaneness, and here kind providence interposes; and as it were, obliges them to forsake the use of one of their delights, to preserve their liberty.”
A Renegade History of the United States
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Earlier affluence has led to high consumption of intoxicants.
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Thus such features as wider home ownership, affluence, and the embourgeoisement of the working class are not necessarily electorally adverse; democratic socialist parties can still thrive in prosperous societies.
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It was a marriage in a vacuum, with two sweet children and all the material trappings of affluence and success.
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We throw billions at banks and the rich, spend lavishly on weapons to kill people, giving the military and its lobbyists an orgy of affluence in wars we can't afford, but can't insure nearly a third of our citizens, can't manage a policy to keep people from foreclosures due to policies that allow banks to pigout on bailouts ...
John O'Kane: Freed Empire
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The effect of increasing affluence is to minimize the importance of economic goals.
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Mean while the sudden affluence occasioned by trade, forced open all the sluices of luxury and overflowed the land with every species of profligacy and corruption; a total pravity of manners would ensue, and this must be attended with bankruptcy and ruin.
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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Affluence also creates an ever-growing class of well-off consumers, many of whom seek to emulate the crudities of consumption of the elites.
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Our unprecedented affluence also explains much, although its role as a facilitator has been relatively scanted in most discussions of anti-Americanism that I have seen.
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“Class segregation and the spatial concentration of poverty at historically high levels,” concluded demographer Douglas Massey and his colleagues, “when juxtaposed with the growing concentration of affluence at all geographic levels, portends a divided society that runs counter to the egalitarian ideology of the United States and its historical commitment to equality.”
American Grace
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So that the rest of the world in its growing affluence can eat beef.
Times, Sunday Times
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Everything, down to the £100-a-throw cinnamon-coloured calfskin menus, expresses comfort, discretion and affluence.
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This new, more cosmopolitan look to kosher is due in part to the growing affluence and influence of American Jews, says Deborah Dash Moore, a historian and director of the University of Michigan's Frankel Center for Judaic Studies.
Hip Kosher Cooking
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Affluence also knits generations together, although that thread has a silkier sheen.
Times, Sunday Times
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The amount of land devoted to development has mushroomed, thanks to the automobile, improved building technology, and greater affluence.
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They contribute generously to village and family enterprises and avoid ostentatious displays of affluence.
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This was the troubling existence of social division; the co-existence of affluence and destitution; of learning with ignorance; of sobriety with dissipation and dissolution.
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What we are seeing increasingly is a society of private affluence and public squalor.
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Around this time, far far away from the trials of Smith, living a life of sunshine and affluence a million hemispheres from The Fall, a tiny Californian bass player called Brix was making plans to check out a Fall gig in Chicago with her friend.
FallNews - Hey Peasants!
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The flamboyant court of Burgundy was a spectacular expression of princely prestige and affluence.
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Social factors, such as affluence and population growth, add further demand and strain on recreation opportunities.
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There are now designer boutiques, bakeries selling ciabattas, and that telltale sign of overaffluence - the Bang and Olufsen shop.
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Despite problems, the Japanese worker today enjoys a degree of affluence undreamed of a few decades ago.
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And I began to think about what I call the stewardship of affluence and the stewardship of influence.
Rick Warren on a life of purpose
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family depended on his ability to wangle a few dollars occasionally . With this money, they would eat well and dress well for a while , making a pretence of affluence.
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On my walk some guy seething in his affluence got really hostile with me barking how Obama's "effed" everything up.
LJWorld.com stories: News
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About such drivers of status affluence Mr. Best is frustratingly incurious.
Why We're All Above Average
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This identity, in a culture of affluence, is no better declared than through the biblical image of the steward.
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Rough clothing and general shabbiness proclaimed their lack of affluence, yet there was no rowdiness, and no one gave the two overworked barmaids trouble.
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These commercials often incorporate the image of pop and movie stars to give their houses the proper sense of glamour and affluence.
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Indeed, a family's ability to hire servant girls and free the mistress for productive work was a sign of its increasing affluence, not its poverty, and most women did not aspire to escape outdoor work and immerse themselves in housewifery.
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Why had he and Zoe, in the first flush of affluence, decided the desirable residence was truly desirable?
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Pockets of affluence coexist with poverty.
