Sentence examples for chief source of wealth from inspiring English sources

In Romney's world, and throughout his own tax return, the money earned from money — as opposed to money earned from working — is the chief source of wealth.

Long-standing assimilation to Spanish culture had reinforced the patriarchal structure of the local nobility, whose chief source of wealth was sheep raising.

The division of labor identified by Adam Smith as the chief source of wealth is far deeper than at any time in history.

They must have been aware too that they were about to destroy tourism, rightly or wrongly the chief source of wealth for the Balinese.

White, semitransparent Parian marble (Paria Marmara), used for sculpture and quarried from subterranean pits on the north side of Mount Marpessa, was the chief source of wealth for ancient Páros.

In several states, this trade is a chief source of wealth.

Whereas livestock is a secondary source of wealth to the Otoro, cattle are the primary source of wealth, prestige, and political position for the Humr Baqqārah.

"Our diversity is our main source of wealth and self-esteem," she says.

The trickiest issue he faces is land, which remains the main source of wealth.

Our primary source of wealth estimates are tax data.

These tyrants founded further colonies, but the chief source of Corinth's wealth remained its possession of the isthmus, which controlled not only the land traffic between Attica and the Peloponnese but also the traffic between the Aegean and Ionian seas by way of the Corinthian and Saronic gulfs.