Sentence examples for exorbitant wealth from inspiring English sources

Capitalism meant exorbitant wealth at the top, but it also meant rapid technological progress and economic growth.

When Bloomberg was elected mayor, his exorbitant wealth was widely seen as guaranteeing his purity of purpose: beholden to nobody, he could pursue his sense of what was right.

Just about all the lovable, hateable and hoot-able gang is here: gay, straight and transsexual, lustily on the prowl or searching for enduring love, pampered by exorbitant wealth or straight from middle-class Cleveland.

He argues this fear has only been exacerbated by Trump's exorbitant wealth, which enables his platform to be entirely self-directed, without impetus for compromise.

Those realities look even harsher when you compare the bargain-basement salaries earned by the average Chinese young adult with the exorbitant wealth of China's well-connected.

Paulson rose to prominence and exorbitant wealth after making billions of dollars betting against the U.S. market for subprime mortgages, while most of Wall Street was still in the midst of a feeding frenzy over mortgage bonds.

It was, Gates acknowledged, "an odd form of capitalism" that had permitted her husband to garner his exorbitant personal wealth (fifty-three billion dollats, at last count) and to set up the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which gave away three billion dollars last year, mostly for global health issues.

The Kremlin-appointed leader of an impoverished southern Russian region called Kalmykia, he is known mostly for his exorbitant and mysteriously acquired wealth and his fanatical devotion to chess.

As a result, the Gaineses have provided not only themselves with an exorbitant amount of, well, wealth, but have made Waco a Disneyland-like destination for home and design obsessives.

The worst cardinals, providing, of course, the material for the worst Popes, have been for the most part cardinal nephews, the temptation to the creation of such having been rendered to great to be resisted by the exorbitant greatness of the power, dignity, and wealth attributed to the members of the Sacred College.

Bagoas was commander in chief of the Achaemenid forces in the conquest of Egypt (343 bc) and gained wealth by selling back to the priests at an exorbitant price the sacred writings looted from Egyptian temples.