Sentence examples for elusive prosperity from inspiring English sources

"Drawing on all his memories of his harsh Lambeth life, and fortified by his three years of observing American urban reality," writes Louvish, "Charlie begins his odyssey through the Lower Depths of the Land of Promise and elusive prosperity".

Laura Ingalls was born in the sylvan wilds near Pepin, Wisconsin, in 1867, and she grew up on the frontier, in the various log cabins, claim shanties, sod dugouts, and little frame houses that her inveterately restless father, Charles, built for his wife and daughters each time he bundled them into a covered wagon and moved on, mostly westward, in search of an elusive prosperity.

The god's eyes were open to the world below: the abbess, the worshipers and the vast expanse of the North China Plain, with its millions of people racing toward modern China's elusive goals — prosperity, wealth, happiness.

But others that have hitched their economic strategy to trade, like Mexico, have found prosperity elusive.

Fiscal discipline is painful, unpopular and, in today's Washington, as elusive as the prosperity we once had.

Turning thirty-seven, Mullick was forced to consider how long he could keep driving a crappy car, live without health insurance, and chase an elusive dream of artistic prosperity.

As Europe expands in a quest for prosperity and elusive unity, many among its new members in the East fear that hundreds of thousands of people may be left behind in a new underclass, throwbacks to the lost era of command economies and state control.

Prosperity remains elusive.

But just as the prescriptions of the International Monetary Fund are now being questioned, as prosperity has proved elusive for countries like Brazil and Argentina, so are the W.T.O.'s intellectual property rules.

Broadly shared prosperity will remain elusive as long as workers' buying power is limited.

The appeal of overthrowing a strongman like Maduro or Saddam Hussein or Muammar Gaddafi is as evident as post-invasion stability, prosperity, and peace are elusive.