Sentence examples for accumulated property from inspiring English sources

She prospered over the next several years as a shopkeeper and accumulated property in Norwich and New London.

Godwin also condemns "accumulated property" as a source of power over others and envisions a loose economic system in which people would give and take according to their needs.

Thus, twice a century God would "level the playing field" between the rich (who had accumulated property) and the poor (who had lost it).

Sherman quickly became successful at the practice of law, and by 1847 had accumulated property worth $10,000 and was a partner in several local businesses.

You must define when dissolution is triggered as well as what happens to the accumulated property and capital after dissolution.

But he was a dragon among men, and dragons have no interest in accumulating property.

Unlike despotisms, modern democracies are not supposed promiscuously to accumulate property and then charge their taxpayers to maintain it.

There was considerable variation among societies as to whether a slave was allowed to accumulate property that he might keep after manumission.

This did not mean, however, that slaves could not possess and accumulate property but only that their owners had legal title to whatever the slaves had.

The helots were in a sense state slaves, bound to the soil and assigned to individual Spartans to till their holdings; their masters could neither free them nor sell them, and the helots had a limited right to accumulate property, after paying to their masters a fixed proportion of the produce of the holding.

Even so, the guidelines insist that the self-employed will not be allowed to "accumulate property".One way of interpreting the changes is that rather than creating new opportunities, they merely legalise what was already a widespread informal economy of clandestine private enterprise.