Sentence examples for acquired worth from inspiring English sources

Evaluative self-respect, in contrast, has to do with acquired worth, merit, based on the quality of one's character and conduct.

Like the prosecutor, Spengler said that Holmes's motive for the massacre was that "by killing others, he could gain value and acquire worth.

When Mr. Blaustein acquired 93 Worth Street in 2010, for example, he paid roughly $300 a buildable square foot.

Yale, however, simply grew: its endowment swelled to $10 billion, and with time it acquired $2.9 billion worth of property.

Separately, Bank of America also acquired notes worth $3.6 billion from Countrywide Financial's bank and the equity in a number of other Countrywide subsidiaries.

The Whitney trustees pooled their pennies, acquired $200 million worth of postwar American art and gave it all to the museum as a gift.

The Los Angeles museum is trying to keep up with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, which in the last two years has acquired art worth more than $125 million.

They pooled their pennies, acquired $200 million worth of postwar art and gave the whole shebang -- 87 works -- to the museum at once.

At a time when his official salary was the equivalent of nineteen thousand dollars a year, his extended family acquired businesses worth more than a hundred million dollars, according to Bloomberg News.

This myth coexisted for years with the public knowledge that Suharto presided over a regime in which his closest friends controlled huge monopolies and lucrative concessions, while his children acquired assets worth billions of dollars.

For years, this myth coexisted with the public knowledge that Suharto presided over a regime in which his closest friends controlled huge monopolies and lucrative concessions, while his children acquired assets worth billions of dollars.