Sentence examples for fortunes based on from inspiring English sources
Spiritual advisers tell fortunes based on the exact time of a client's birthdate.
Alexander Lebedev's fortunes, based on a variety of businesses in Russia, have declined dramatically over the last couple of years.
Among the 40 richest Latin Americans, the largest number have fortunes based on drinks (nine) and retail (six).
All presidential campaigns have ups and downs, making it dangerous to predict a candidate's fortunes based on the latest smooth or rough patch.
Now Mr. Lamy says the European Union needs a new dream to revive its sagging fortunes, based on modernizing its "social market" model of tempering economic forces with social protection to keep it sustainable.
Social systems were coming under pressure as aristocratic fortunes (based on agricultural land) were threatened by the opening up of food production in North and South America; industry had grouped together manual labourers and given them the power of strike action unavailable to isolated farmworkers; Britain's lead in the Industrial Revolution had been eroded by Germany and the US.
Thyssen family, one of the world's wealthiest families, its fortune based on a vast iron and steel empire established in the late 19th century.
It's named for the conductor Sir Thomas Beecham, who, one of the resident divas readily points out, inherited a fortune based on laxatives that provided generations of ageing folk with much needed relief.
Among its rites: cherry blossoms, longer days, and the anguished cries of baseball fans judging their teams' fortune based on a weekend's worth of games.
Such are the polarizing responses elicited by Mr. Soros, who came to the United States with nothing decades ago and built a $7 billion fortune based on market speculation.
Forbes estimated the growth of the mayor's fortune based on a rise in revenue at Bloomberg L.P., where sales reached $7.6 billion last year, and higher valuations for the company's publicly traded competitors, including McGraw-Hill and Thomson Reuters.
