Sentence examples for affluence on from inspiring English sources

Today, urban renewal means Donald Trump building towers of affluence on the Hudson and East Rivers.

This is egregious affluence on an unprecedented scale, real gold on the walls, doors and fittings, 1,022 crystal chandeliers and a guest list of Hollywood-Bollywood glamerati who've taken rooms at up to £10,000 a night.

Moore set up a photography studio in a tin hut in Bhopal, draped the interior in rich red material, laid a carpet – a sign of affluence – on the floor, and got two ornate "king chairs" made for the families to sit on.

Great to be here, the business secretary tells them, though I always have to remember that Lib Dems are in favour of bypasses in Eastbourne, but against them in Lewes (19 miles away).As part of my research, I went to Mr Clegg's constituency of Sheffield Hallam, a rare pocket of middle-class affluence on the moors above the otherwise solidly Labour city of Sheffield.

The Market, just downstairs from Twitter's headquarters at 1355 Market St., is a burst of affluence on the long-troubled middle stretch of Market Street near the Civic Center.

She was beautiful and proper, but a symbol of the persona -- the public face we put on to meet the world -- and of the rise of American affluence on the world stage in the fifties.

Their proper aspirations – for a place to live, a job of work, a safe public place, and above all a healthy planet – have been jeopardised by our demand for affluence-on-credit.

As the rest of us live through austerity, the City's age of affluence carries on regardless.

Surprisingly, the results show that the success does not depend on the affluence of the areas.

The global downturn has thrust fast-growing Asia into the limelight as an engine of world growth, prompting an influx of investment by businesses seeking to capitalize on booming economies and on the rising affluence of Asia's billions of consumers.

Amy Stuart Wells, a professor at Teachers College, Columbia University (The Hechinger Report is an independent publication based at Teachers College), said that diversity can be a hard sell for parents, who often judge whether a school is "good" or not based on what they've heard from their neighbors and on the relative affluence of the students who attend.