Sentence examples for capital earned from inspiring English sources

Barack Obama's considerable political capital, earned on Election Day 2008, is spent.

Bain Capital earned $34 million, 34 times its 1986 investment, in Calumet Coach, a manufacturer of medical equipment, for example.

The legislation heading to the National Assembly now exempts capital earned by active founders from the sale of their companies.

The political capital earned from Bin Laden's death will not last forever — it has to be invested soon.

They reckoned that "slave capital" earned at least equal returns to those from other forms of capital investment such as railroad bonds.

One clerk at a court in Brasília, the capital, earned $226,000 in a year — more than the chief justice of the nation's Supreme Court.

He had been out of work for the past year, though earlier he had been a painter in Tunis, the capital, earning 300 dinars each month.

Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Daniel Shuchman, a fund manager, fumed at the book's "medieval hostility to the notion that financial capital earns a return".This is not just a matter of presentation.

The capital earns a moderate glimmer of light in Debbie Tucker Green's promising, piquantly observed kitchen-sink drama Second Coming (Kaleidoscope, 15), in which the possibility of ethereal intervention elevates and complicates familiar domestic frictions.

Lokech, an officer in the Ugandan Army, commanded African Union troops during the 2011 offensive that pushed Al Shabaab out of the capital, earning him the nickname the Lion of Mogadishu.

GE may have developed a similar model in which a periphery of companies is built around a core "money" company or bank (GE Capital) that attracts capital, earns high returns, and feeds the growth of other units.