Sentence examples for affluence which from inspiring English sources

'The paradox is that success breeds affluence, which creates permanently raised expectations,' he said.

Unless you can call it a fault to be born too soon to be caught up in the general affluence, which younger people think has always been there".

This look is also one of the commonest faces of contemporary India: not affluence, but a simulation of affluence, which makes the face seem paradoxically humane.

New Jersey is hardly a stranger to insult, ranking fairly high among the country's most disrespected states, despite its affluence, which is second only to Connecticut's.

The credit culture has created an illusion of plenitude and affluence which disguises the millions who are paying back debt like a form of indentured labour.

A similar insensitivity can be seen over his conspicuous displays of affluence, which go far beyond anything that either Margaret Thatcher or John Major allowed for themselves.

In this study, a material affluence scale (MAS) was constructed using material affluence indicators which represent material living conditions in Ghanaian adolescents' reality.

And rising costs are often symptoms of much deeper problems: problems that were irritating during the years of affluence but which are cancerous in an age of austerity.The first problem is the inability to say "no".

It charts a westward, generations-spanning route from the cluttered, shabby environs of a Lower East Side tenement to a honeyed land of affluence in which nothing seems to exist but the sky and the sea.

We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, but most people in developed countries are still, by historical standards, extraordinarily well off.

The late Ernest Gellner, a social anthropologist, observed that the transition to modernity and affluence (of which he broadly approved as long as it was supported by a strong welfare state) is often a painful one.