Sentence examples for concept of wealth from inspiring English sources

Here among the San, the concept of wealth has begun to sink in.

So far, the U.S. still embraces cash, because our concept of wealth is material: we collect it, handle it, hoard it.

At the fund-raiser on Wednesday, Mr. Romney kept up his assault on Mr. Obama for his seeming to say in a 1998 interview that he believed in the concept of wealth redistribution.

His argument is supported by a Barclays Wealth survey of 2,000 high net worth individuals earlier this year, which found that conspicuous consumption was not on the rise in the West: "The concept of wealth commanding respect seems to be diminishing in Europe, whilst in Asia Pacific and Latin America it is considered very important".

It appears that you do not understand the concept of wealth generation.

I recently had the opportunity to deliver a keynote speech on the concept of wealth: how should we define it and what makes one feel wealthy?

The technological leaps that interest Wilson — from spear and skewer to fork and knife, say, or from pounding stone and grinding mill to food processor — are, obviously, inextricable from the cultural leaps that moved Homo sapiens from cave to settlement, which is to say to agriculture and, with it, to concepts of wealth, property, and the kitchen.

But wealth is not defined by those "things". I realized I needed to think beyond the material concepts of wealth.

And one of the the most interesting things about this letter is not only Ruskin's interpretation of the horse as a figure of social injustice, but also the way in which he distills the concepts of wealth and social station to points that can be easily comprehended by a child.

Mandelson made a technical criticism of the plans for a mansion tax, but supported the concept of a wealth tax.

WALTER CAMPBELL Manhattan Beach, Calif., Feb. 12 *   To the Editor: The concept of a wealth tax as described in the article, is disturbing.