How To Use Wealth In A Sentence

A few talented writers en dowed with originality and exceptional animation, a few brilliant efforts, isolated, without following, interrupted and recommenced, did not suffice to endow a nation with a solid and imposing basis of literary wealth. Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian
First, it moves a great deal of diffuse wealth and concentrates it in the hands of the war industry.
On paper, we're a one-person-one-vote nation; in reality, we're more than a bit of an oligarchy, in which a handful of wealthy people dominate.
With the usual prerogative of the wealthy classes, he tended to choose doctors with a reputation for having studied some topics in greater detail than usual.
Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy. I experience myself as overflowing, spending, alive, hence as joyous. Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness. Erich Fromm

It's worth taking chances when you're shooting at a chance of fame and wealth.
Such a man or woman is slave to his or her social position and wealth.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
Very wealthy people don't like to be questioned about whether they can support a cheque. Times, Sunday Times
The decades of peace and accumulation of wealth in the west have not only been arguably bought at the expense of the rest of the world - but also of ourselves.
On the one hand, it was a powerful tool to enhance or sustain personal and corporate power, wealth, and status.
Finally, for those comfortable with investing in stocks there are a wealth of options to choose from.
Complicated cross-shareholdings in the keiretsu style are typical in Asia, where controlling families and their cronies siphon much wealth away from shareholders.
They come from a privileged/wealthy background.
Very slowly or moderately it was rising, and I thought I was at the estate of a wealthy person for the architecture was very expensive looking.
Even though these involved rich Mexicans, it can happen at any time to extranjeros flaunting their wealth in a povert stricken town in a 3rd world country. San Miguel crime spree?
The poor litigant will wait for the somnolescent process and leisurely pronouncement and the wealthy litigant will have his case speedily terminated. The Hindu - Front Page
The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing them.
In developing countries like India, it is the wealthier and better-educated who tend to be aspirational; the poor are not yet in a position to aspire to much of anything.
He used a specially-arranged series of interviews during the Commonwealth summit yesterday to mount a stout defence of his position.
The watertight rooms, costing from £500 a night up to £3,000 for a suite, are aimed at wealthy travellers who want a unique holiday experience.
He treated the vast mineral wealth of his country as something for him to sell off to the highest international bidders.
At first the duo live in a manner that befits a pair of wealthy American socialites. The Sun
Listen to him prating on about his wealth.
Richard and his friends, he reminds us constantly, are wealthy, beautiful, aloof from the slings and arrows of dowdiness and paying bills and slogging it out in monotonous jobs.
They put this view into practice quite straightforwardly, avoided ostentatious clothing and wealth, refused to swear oaths in court, to bear arms or to defend themselves.
Its wealth depended on the scientists who worked in a large lab behind the administrative block.
However, there is no great bonanza of wealth awaiting Ireland in the Atlantic waters.
You don't flaunt your wealth in a courtroom. Times, Sunday Times
Wealthy people buy the houses from the Trust, employ builders to do the restoration and move in when all is ready.
He rebuilds a lab, on the sly, that is humongous, an undertaking requiring great wealth and a greater amount of equipment and manpower. Teenage armor: A review of the new Iron Man cartoon | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
Tourist revenue is now our principal source of wealth.
Everything was explained in it -- everything made clear; and gradually she realised the natural, strong and pardonable craving of the rich, unloved man, to seek out for himself some means whereby he might leave all his world's gainings to one whose kindness to him had not been measured by any knowledge of his wealth, but which had been bestowed upon him solely for simple love's sake. The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches
In the hands of the untrained and unwary it can cause untold damage to your wealth.
In analyzing wealth accumulation, we limit attention to the subsample that supplied complete data on all financial and demographic variables of interest.
They are poor amid wealth and their living conditions are lousy.
The mysterious tonic and the fine-tooth metal comb brought Walker incredible wealth.
Well, it would be in a whole new jurisprudence so far as the prosecution of Commonwealth offences were concerned in this country.
Wealth as an instrument of social control is a privilege of rank or of birth.
These comments provide a glimpse into the thinking of a layer of extremely wealthy Hollywood liberals or erstwhile liberals, whose commitment to democratic rights is increasingly tenuous.
The same illustration with the boy can also be translated into our global society where we have poor and wealthy nations.
Mumbai is a mixture of great wealth and extreme poverty, delightful colonial buildings alongside shanty huts. Times, Sunday Times
On the surface, Annie Powerss life in a wealthy Floridian suburb is happy and idyllic. Black Out by Lisa Unger: Book summary
his dreams of vast wealth are a hallucination
Wealth is something that we are all encouraged to aspire to, rightly or wrongly. Times, Sunday Times
The bank has been discussing a possible sale of the platform to local wealth manager IOOF Holdings Ltd. and a newspaper report Wednesday claimed that NAB has lodged an updated version of its bid with the ACCC, including a plan to sell North to IOOF for less than A$50 million. AXA Asia Profit Falls 19%
‘They would have needed social stability’, he says, suggesting brochs were not watch towers or forts, but ‘ostentatious signs of status and wealth’.
However, an economic model that does not include the creation of wealth is about as valuable as an ecological model that does not include reproduction or predation.
In her few public appearances she resembles a well-heeled rancher's wife more than a fabulously wealthy businesswoman. Times, Sunday Times
As I looked at these mines with their thousands of grinning natives and heard the rattle of gravel in the "jigs" my mind went back to Kimberley and the immense part that its glittering wealth played in determining the economic fate of South Africa. An African Adventure
Those resources might be land or industry or mineral wealth or the environment.
It is unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate wealth.
Can the Commonwealth detain bankrupts for the purpose of examining them, on the basis that some bankrupts are likely to flee before examination?
There were also a huge range of aspects of Her Majesty's life - from images of her relaxing with her family and corgis, entertaining, on her royal duties, and as Head of the Commonwealth.
It's considered gauche to flaunt your wealth. Times, Sunday Times
In the moralistic atmosphere of 1950s Hollywood, it was tricky to present Colette's account of the risqué demimondaine, and its glorification of the courtesans who relied on wealthy playboys and aristocrats to live in a state of opulence. France's Courtesan Queen Returns to the Silver Screen
Jamaica, a member of the British Commonwealth, has a bicameral parliamentary legislative system.
They grew wealthy overnight and had a beautiful little opera house built in the midst of their shacks on the steep slope.
The bear leader bear-led a group of wealthy young men on a cross-country hike.
But when you ask for it back, don't be surprised to get an admonitory finger-wagging about being over-fixated on money and wealth, when you really should be thinking more about wellbeing and the work-life balance.
But the success of the past two seasons mean that the standard emblazoned with four bezants or gold coins, to symbolise both wealth and wheels of a car is apt.
He was totally without ostentation or pretension and totally disinterested in wealth, honours or managerial power.
This orphanage solicits its benevolence of the wealthy people.
The city of Bordeaux exudes wealth: its enormous, elegant squares easily rival the Place de Vosges in Paris or Piazza Navona in Rome.
Wealth flows from industry and economy.
Which driver is in pole position on the F1 wealth grid? Times, Sunday Times
Consumer demand will be depressed as stock prices retreat, leading to lower levels of net household wealth.
He has a wealth of hair.
Leonardo clearly believed that wealth, patronage, and political power lay in the courts to the east of mainland Europe.
His great wealth came from Jamaican estates and he was frequently reminded, when tribune of the people, that he was a slave-owner.
Now, as for those in our church who contend for the ceremonies, many of them are led by such _argumenta inartificialia_, as wealth, preferment, &c., and if conscience be at all looked to by them, yet they only throw and extort an assent and allowance from it, when worldly respects have made them to propend and incline to an anterior liking of the ceremonies. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)
The blood tests which snared three drugs cheats at last month's Winter Olympics could be missing from the anti-doping programme throughout Britain this year, including the Commonwealth Games.
The concentration of wealth and power is a great deterrent to democracy.
Otherwise, the Commonwealth could always legislate to say certain categories of State legislation are prohibited.
Ostentatious expenditure focused the attention of the poor on the wealth of the wealthy, for this of course was its purpose.
Many of the subjects are necessarily members of wealthy or aristocratic families, and part of the purpose of the show is to explore the place of children in society their dress, and their toys.
A wealthy businessman has been found bludgeoned to death.
Yet those who might write off the Commonwealth and European medallist have short memories.
Self-assessment would also provide a heaven-sent opportunity to rid the nation of estate agents, while increasing our wealth.
This gap is important in even-numbered years in order to accommodate the spectacle of the World Cup or the Summer Olympics, perhaps even the Commonwealth Games or the European Football championships.
Wisdom is more precious than wealth.
The secret of wealth lieth in the letters SAVE.
As he expounded the philosophy of enterprise and free-market wealth creation, there was a stir of interest in the public gallery.
His great and wealthy enterprise constantly formed an apple of discord.
Wealthy women might have a string of brightly coloured beads linking the two brooches across the chest.
She herself meant eventually to marry, because one couldn't forever hang on to rich people; but she was going to wait till she found some one who combined the maximum of wealth with at least a minimum of companionableness. The Glimpses of the Moon
What is true of the inequality of wealth also holds for income inequality. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
Democracy shows an independent positive association with health, which remains after adjustment for a country's wealth, its level of inequality, and the size of its public sector.
As a wealthy businessman, he couldn't even begin to imagine real poverty.
This stunning coin, which portrays several symbols of fortune and wealth, also reflects the auspiciousness of the number eight in traditional beliefs. The Perth Mint – New Product Releases : Coin Collecting News
We are always ready to sneer at wealthy men who get involved with sport. Times, Sunday Times
But that would be no different from somebody disinterring a 20-year-old volume of the Commonwealth Law Reports and recounting what happened in some case.
His condemnation of violence and wealth, of government repression and church hypocrisy, brought him administrative pinpricks and excommunication.
Because when you add up the total tax packages that the Republicans passed last year and this year, it literally consumes the entire surplus, and the winners turn out to be the wealthiest people.
Wealth is not necessarily synonymous with happiness.
Because the states directly provide the greatest share of schools funding, the percentage increases for the commonwealth are higher.
While the wealthy sportsman was the original English motorist, it was not until Edward VII took up motoring (with relish) that the motorcar began to gain precedence over the horse and carriage with the Marlborough House Set. The Motorcar | Edwardian Promenade
Remarkably, however, U.S. policymakers began kowtowing to the Saudis from the time of the discovery of oil in the kingdom in 1938 before they had any wealth or the United States imported a barrel of their oil. Arab lobby’s unseen influence
Born in Dundee, Scotland, he was a member of the wealthy Keiller family, well known amongst other things for their marmalade and preserves.
Lanikai is a community of wealthy, preposterously fit, good-looking people who seem to be constantly in motion.
Tolstikov is a wealthy professional athlete, yet he considers bananas a luxury.
A wealthy, mysterious Englishman named Henry Philips arrived in the port and rapidly gained Tyndale's trust, and hence access to the Pointz household.
Both were excellent fund-raisers among the wealthy, and they kept up feminine appearances by favouring Parisian fashions.
Of course, these are minor quibbles with a book that provides such a wealth of content.
Tulips became a status symbol - and wealthy Dutch and European aristocrats and newly-wealthy merchant classes had to have them!
The remarkable fact about this inpouring of wealth is its extraordinary suddenness.
Music is replacing capital as the major generator of wealth.
Her family is wealthier than most and has seen more sorrow. Times, Sunday Times
They belong to one of his students, a wealthy, charming Cuban-American named Consuela Castillo, whose thrilling desirability enchants, infatuates, and torments Kepesh. The Nihilist
But what's been the biggest redistribution of wealth in the last 100 years? The Sun
His wealth is his brag.
Italy was a country of inexhaustible charm, sybaritic pleasure, and cultural wealth, of course, but it was not to be taken quite seriously in an economic or political sense.
For years they have marched, waved flags and mouthed slogans whilst the people elected them to offices of wealth and privilege.
He's a wealthy man.
On the other hand, the wealthiest members of our society are relatively unaffected. Times, Sunday Times
Spending is due to double over the next decade, feeding on more and more of the federal fisc and national wealth. Medicare for a New Century
Do not the young men contrive great wealth what of their pack-straps and paddles? CHAPTER 2
During the past 15 years, they have transformed Poland into a paradise for big business and the wealthy, while large parts of the population lack the most elementary basic needs.
The value of a person's stock market portfolio is not inconsequent; there's a perceived feeling of wealth," says Mr. Pringuet. Spirits Brighten at Debt-Heavy Pernod Ricard
Now the losses are enormous and you'd have to be seriously wealthy to cover them.
He retired to England, a fabulously wealthy man. Times, Sunday Times
This gift for things mechanical and his skill as a mechanical engineer quickly made him a very wealthy man. THE HUNTING OF MAN
To the west of the town, on the B939, is Rufflets hotel www.rufflets.co.uk , a turreted mansion house built in 1924 for Anne Brydon Gilroy, the widow of a wealthy jute baron. Drives That Leave the City Behind
Therefore, increasing premiums for wealthier seniors is more likely to restrain overutilization than hiking their ... common sense Medicare reforms, like income-adjusted premiums ...will help ensure patients are seeking appropriate care. Richard (RJ) Eskow: The Burr/Coburn Medicare Plan: 10 Deceptions - And A Free-Market "Death Panel"
The famous graziers and other people, how well willing soever they be taken to be, will not be known of their wealth, and by miscontentment of their loss, be grown stubborn and liberal of talk. The Reign of Mary Tudor
Wealth is not his who has it, but his who enjoys it.
From 1953 he was assistant to the managing editor, serving as media organiser for the Perth Commonwealth Games and for early tours to the promising mineral regions of the north-west.
Next, a row with wealthy philanthropists and charities over a cap on tax relief for charitable giving. Times, Sunday Times
The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind ... to filch wealth and power to themselves. DeMint says Tea Party activists leading spiritual revival
But it also is true that neither candidate came from a wealthy, politically influential family or a powerful political machine.
Any time people know what's going on in their companies, they do feel what you call a patriotic responsibility to invest there," said Paul Palazzo, a managing director for Altfest Personal Wealth Management in New York. The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines
Those households tend to be wealthier and better educated on average, making newspaper readers an attractive market for advertisers.
There was some secret about the source of his wealth.
American defender of theirs says just the same of their industrialism and free-trade; indeed, this gentleman, taking the bull by the horns, proposes that we should for the [78] future call industrialism culture, and the industrialists the men of culture, and then of course there can be no longer any misapprehension about their true character; and besides the pleasure of being wealthy and comfortable, they will have authentic recognition as vessels of sweetness and light. Culture and Anarchy
Very wealthy people don't like to be questioned about whether they can support a cheque. Times, Sunday Times
In addition, wealth is passed from one generation of the wealthy to the next.
I for a long time, but at last I awoke from my heedlessness and, returning to my senses, I found my wealth had become unwealth and my condition ill-conditioned and all I once hent had left my hand. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Its "proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality as the means of procuring wealth and thereby securing virtue," were sown like seed all over the land. Benjamin Franklin
Why did such a wealthy family need to fund the marriage of its grandson through a tacky magazine deal? The Sun
In his many years as an angler, businessman, and conservation leader, this gentle demeanor helped bring together local meat fishermen, outfitters, wealthy anglers, conservationists, and ranchers.
The fiduciary estate is distinct from the fiduciary's personal wealth.
Until recently, there were nine different armies competing for food and access to the local mineral wealth.
The top one percent of the population has acuminated more wealth than the bottom ninety percent put together. Are We In the Twilight of the Great America
The initiative comes after two HMRC amnesties have failed to entice many wealthy taxpayers with offshore accounts to declare their taxable income. Treasury to get £1bn windfall in Swiss deal over secret bank accounts
Only thus can Europe have any ideological and cultural glue; without it we are just a commonwealth of states in a customs union’.
Theatres were closed during the Commonwealth.
Early wealth in Barbados was built on remittances sent back by emigrants who went to Panamá to build the canal. Think Progress » Mark Krikorian: ‘Haiti’s So Screwed Up Because It Wasn’t Colonized Long Enough’
My purpose is to show that poverty and misfortune make no invidious distinctions of “race, color, or previous condition,” but that wealth unduly centralized oppresses all alike; therefore, that the labor elements of the whole United States should sympathize with the same elements in the South, and in some favorable contingency effect some unity of organization and action, which shall subserve the common interest of the common class. Black and White
She had a string of wealthy boyfriends before she finally married.
They began to talk loudly and at length on a range of topics: the benefits of various air miles and insurance packages; the moral beatitude of wealth creation; their twin enthusiasms for brand development and soul music.
The play tells the story of a fabulously wealthy woman who seeks revenge on her heartless seducer.
If rates remain stuck at ultralow levels, investors may return to the asset class simply for the yield, says Hans Olsen , head of Americas Investment Strategy at Barclays Wealth. Not Dead Yet: What to Do With Your Bets on Rising Rates
Thus, the wealth of the fishing fleet increases when the industry has the rights to pollute. Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice
They were put to work in remote areas to fell trees, mine the country's mineral wealth and open up the vast and empty land tracts of the far north and east.
They merely induce wealthy collectors to dip into their pockets.
New taxes on wealth could redistribute money from older, better off Australians into education, health, and unemployment accounts for young Australians.
Wealth is still to be parceled out by the state in ways unrelated to production - according to social justice.
The city's wealth came almost entirely from its role as an entrepôt, moving goods from the eastern Mediterranean to Lombardy and over the Alps to northern Europe.
He is suddenly appointed rector of a wealthy, old-established and very beautiful parish in the heart of rural Wiltshire.
Mother was referring to the infamous story of Helen Potter, daughter of a multimillionaire beer and wine distributor in Hyannis Port who, after she had been engaged to the son of a wealthy Boston builder, was discovered naked in bed with her closest girlfriend. Olivia
Alberti was also occupied by the dialectic of the vita activa – vita contemplativa. 33 Through his own treatise on the subject, De commodis literarum atque incommodis,34 and a study of the Florentine family, Della famiglia,35 Alberti deeply influenced a younger generation of powerful and wealthy soldier-scholars, including Leonello d'Este and Federico, who negotiated their turbulent political climate as much by tactical eloquence as by militaristic valor. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
The Duke and Duchess were so wealthy that they seemed to have money coming out of their ears.
Bordered by nine countries, its mineral wealth is brazenly plundered, made possible by an infernally weak state in which corruption, violence and lawlessness are rife.
Each local network of cattle stealing provided an alternative system of power and wealth in that locality.
Vast estates that had been managed by monasteries as endowments for religion and charity were impropriated to swell the wealth of courtiers and favorites; and the commons, where the poor man once had his right of pasture, were taken away, and, under forms of law, enclosed distributively within the domains of the adjacent landholders. Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings
The reforms will benefit wealthy property investors, or those who have held on to a former home. Times, Sunday Times
Potential must be realized, energy must be utilized, wealth must not be hoarded.
He's the scion of a very wealthy newspaper-publishing family.
A telling example is the narrative cycle painted on a cassone, attributed to Filippino Lippi (1457 – 1504), probably commissioned by wealthy Florentine Jews. Art: Representation of Biblical Women.
And a very big part of their struggle is with the structure of power, and especially wealth, among Muslims because that is largely based on practices that are at best murkily understood even by professionals, and which are easily attacked by propagandists, e.g,, the World Bank causes poverty. Matthew Yglesias » The Politics of Terror
Immediately, offers poured in -- from a taverna in the wealthy neighborhood of Kolonaki, from a big baked goods chain, from green grocers in the wholesale market of Rendi, from caterers with leftovers from weddings and baptisms -- and were directed to orphanages, old age homes, halfway houses for the handicapped, soup kitchens run by churches and municipalities all over the Athens area. Diana Farr Louis: Food Aid Takes Off in Athens
Sir Bobby Charlton and George Best were among VIPs holding the hi-tech baton, flanked by flag bearers carrying the flags of the Commonwealth nations.
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Booms are almost by definition a huge transfer of wealth from one section of the population to another leaving many in the lurch.
Wealth of words is not eloquence.
Those unfamiliar with these significant changes in institutional wealth, selectivity, student quality, and academic research will benefit greatly from this book.
Don't go down in history as a spendthrift, who threw away the country's wealth and squandered the opportunity to truly develop our nation.
The entire social system, based on kinship and alliances, is shown crumbling away as, in each generation, wealth-bearing brides make off with what they can salvage in money and durables.
His personal wealth is estimated at around $100 million.
Now, in our new climate of national affluence, wealth and all its trappings seem available to anybody determined enough to have them.
They have set in motion a redistribution of wealth that really will squeeze the rich until the pips squeak. Times, Sunday Times
Simon could have used a bit of grooming in smartening up his appearance as a wealthy young man.
All students must have access to quality education without regard to wealth or class.
Page 127 on Col. Rochester, whose wealth, enterprise, and intelligence well qualified him for the undertaking; and as it had been assigned him to cognominate the new village, I have heard it said that he jocularly gave his reason for selecting its present title, as follows: Twenty-two years a slave, and forty years a freeman--,
Yours is that you happen to be the chief law enforcement officer of this Commonwealth.
The US legal system is highly politicised and thus vulnerable to undue influence from wealthy business and individuals. Times, Sunday Times
Only wealthy people will able to buy houses with large enough gardens to not be affected. The Sun
Such a glamorous home is a perk of the job for a wealthy international sportsman, the kind of holiday hideaway that footballers have long enjoyed. Times, Sunday Times
Bangladesh was part of India and Sri Lanka (Ceylon) was controlled by India which was a part of the British Commonwealth with a British Minister (called a protectorate). Think Progress » Rice: After 9-11 â€œWe Could Decide the Proximate Cause Was Al Qaedaâ€
While not the stated objective of policy, this reverse Robin Hood outcome cannot be gainsaid: the share of wealth held by the top 1 percent of households has risen to 35 percent from 21 percent since 1979, while their share of income has more than doubled to around 20 percent. Harlan Green: Starving the Beast of Government Starves U.S.
Meanwhile, other politicians have offered their own proposals to address the advantages enjoyed by the wealthy.
The whole place is impossibly glamorous and the wealth on display is something else.
By singling out the single family home as a conveyor of individual wealth we have inflated its value as a social connector when in fact it is a social disconnector - separating the physical distance between strangers, alienating the wealth class from the poor, and creating "neighborhoods" that enforce stereotypes and social clichés. Milton Curry: Nixon in China and the American City: Radical Urban Revitalization Needed
That, we respectfully submit, relates directly to a depredation upon the exchequer of the Commonwealth.
Pleasure and pain are the wealth of life, to escape its negative, as some of the face of courage, in fact, be able to recall a blessing.
As a member of the Commonwealth Minerals Committee during World War II, he identified the potential of King Island scheelite.
In addition to working on the sports ground he was doing odd jobs as a gardener out in the wealthy suburbs. Seminary Boy
The wealth of extras for this unsettling horror include a featurette about the special effects and deleted scenes. The Sun
The securities firm shall employ ongoing training to improve the professional ethics of wealth managers.
Senior executives such as Sallie Krawcheck, head of global wealth and investment manag ement at Bank of America Corp., and Heidi Miller, head of international operations at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., are still a statistical anomaly. Ranks of Women on Wall Street Thin

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