Sentence examples for Modest wealth from inspiring English sources
No? Visions of modest wealth swam in my head.
For most Americans, home-ownership is a plausible path towards modest wealth accumulation.
But despite the modest wealth, money isn't everything, says the 67-year-old full-time worker.
Some suggested it was her father's farm and modest wealth that Bill found most attractive, considering he already had a mistress, Nancy Brown.
Steeped in the gaucho tradition and having the open fields of the Pampas on which to practice, a ranch hand with the necessary talent can attain high renown and modest wealth at either polo or horse racing.
Both his parents were probably illiterate; his father rose to prominence in the town, becoming, effectively, the mayor, but began during his son's adolescence to lose his modest wealth, slowly selling much of his property.
Gangsters amassed their (usually modest) riches without the aid of family wealth or education: Richardson makes much of his "natural intelligence".However falsely, gangsters are associated with that more stable era and even held to be responsible for it.
It definitely proves that those Chinese buyers with comparatively modest new wealth still feel perfectly confident in the current international environment.
The pile of offshore anonymous loot is now large enough so that even a very modest 0.5% wealth tax would yield at least $75 billion a year.
Until recently though, it was not thought that this would cause obesity to become widespread in developing countries, some of which are still fending off famine.It now seems that even modest increases in wealth in countries undergoing industrialisation are enough to tip their people from malnutrition to obesity.
Although most universities have only modest endowments, the wealth of the richest has made them increasingly vulnerable to criticism from parents upset about rising tuition costs, lawmakers pushing them to spend more of their money and policy experts arguing that they should be helping more needy students.
