Sentence examples for acquired fortune from inspiring English sources
While her husband imposed martial law in Manila, Marcos relocated, to spend her dubiously acquired fortune in a city more scaled to her appetites.
Known for his radical pronouncements advocating the nationalization of the country's mines and the seizure of white farms without compensation, Mr. Malema is the subject of multiple corruption investigations into his vast and mysteriously acquired fortune.
The rich will not suffer, as corruptly acquired fortunes have almost all been converted to shares, gold and real estate.
The same must be suspected of other countries that are likely to have hosted illegally acquired fortunes from Arab spring countries and are now dragging their feet when it comes to co-operating with the new governments in repatriating those funds.
A good number of teams are still owned by real estate companies who acquired fortunes in the property market, like Evergrande.
King of Torts (Doubleday, $27.95) is a timely if superficial literary thriller about a group of vulgar trial lawyers who acquire fortunes by suing major drug companies.
Large-scale plantation slavery first emerged in Barbados, then spread throughout the sugar islands and the southeastern mainland colonies, allowing planters to acquire fortunes and influence unmatched elsewhere including the tobacco colonies of Maryland and Virginia.
His quietly acquired private fortune is illustrative of changes in the political culture here.
Donovan proceeded to set up a law practice, moved it to Wall Street, and soon acquired a fortune.
In 2012, the Times used Chinese records to calculate that the family of Prime Minister Wen Jiabao had acquired a fortune of $2.7 billion during his time in office.
Rhodes & Company prospered through the marketing and transportation of coal and iron, and by 1885 James Ford Rhodes had acquired a fortune sufficient for him to retire.
