Sentence examples for affluent days from inspiring English sources

The Lagos government has dismantled controls on foreign capital flows, which in more affluent days were seen as a defence against "speculators".

A legacy from the affluent days of the bubble, perhaps, but still the Japanese are likely to buy, should they spot that one particular object of otaku desire.

Though most of the tiny room was a shrine to second-tier boy bands, one corner had been cleared for a Mexican computer — a remnant of more affluent days.

From Italy, Greece, Spain and other countries in the European currency union, the affluent these days are moving money into hard assets valued in something other than euros, which have been plunging in value.

But like many affluent Mongolians these days, he also breeds racehorses.

And these days, affluent investors can choose among a growing array of them.

Then there are Diamond Days (affluent, mortgage-free suburbanites), Senior Security (well-off but risk-averse), and the Vintage Value (not so well-off).

These days affluent communities have less room to be smug.

There were thoughtful liberals who argued, as far back as the 1980s, that policy makers needed to distinguish in the public mind between basic domestic spending, much of which goes to sustain less affluent and older Americans day to day, and the kind of public investments that might give future workers better access to the new economy.

These days, the affluent do not perambulate in watchful villages.

Those labels are different from older descriptions like "limousine liberal," which evoke the charges of class treachery that conservatives have leveled at affluent liberals since the days of F.D.R.