Sentence examples for aggregations of wealth from inspiring English sources

"The corrosive and distorting effects of immense aggregations of wealth that are accumulated with the help of the corporate form," Justice Thurgood Marshall wrote for the majority in 1990, "have little or no correlation to the public's support for the corporation's political ideas".

In 1894, Elihu Root proposed an amendment to New York's constitution, banning "great aggregations of wealth" — corporations — "from using their corporate funds, directly or indirectly to send members of the legislature to these halls, in order to vote for their protection and the advancement of their interests as against those of the public".

In the 1990 case, the Court's majority opinion cited "the corrosive and distorting effects of immense aggregations of wealth that are accumulated with the help of the corporate form and that have little or no correlation to the public's support for the corporation's political ideas".

Indeed, as recently as 1990 the Court upheld a campaign-finance law because of "the corrosive and distorting effects of immense aggregations of wealth that are accumulated with the help of the corporate form and that have little or no correlation to the public's support for the corporation's political ideas".

This is the real cost of the GM bailout not just tens of billions of dollars of wasted taxpayer money, but continued unimaginative use of one of the largest aggregations of wealth and talent in the world.

The "Founding Fathers" were in fact deeply suspicious of large aggregations of wealth.

"We have had the largest aggregation of wealth the country has ever seen," he said.

The unprecedented aggregation of wealth in Australia has not engendered a more generous or altruistic era.

It extends the ongoing aggregation of wealth by the country's highest earners, deprives the government of revenue that's needed for job creation, and extends the current inequities -- all in the belief that the nation's leaders will honor the bargain by letting the cuts expire in 2013.

The Tories and Republicans "think you can just cut your way to prosperity" but the net result of that approach is "accelerate the trend lines which are to the aggregation of great wealth for a few while everyone else struggles.

"To me the Democratic Party represents people fighting against the aggregation of power and wealth in the hands of a few people," he said.