Sentence examples for fortunes held from inspiring English sources

China recently tightened access to corporate information, possibly because of a growing number of corporate fraud scandals, but also media investigations into the fortunes held by the relatives of political leaders, including the former Chongqing party boss Bo Xilai.

Just 12% of wealthy people in the US had more than 1% of their fortunes held in sustainable investments – a broad term which includes renewable energy and companies which have committed to pay employees fairly.

Fortunes held by more than one person (typically a parent and his children or several siblings) are denoted with "and family".

That kept fortunes, held in trust, from cutting estate/gift tax burdens by leaping across a generation to the grandkids (or great-grandkids).

"The train bandits got nothing compared to the railway tycoons who built up great fortunes holding up the government and the people," he says, before performing the gorgeous hobo's lament "Crystal Chandeliers and Burgundy," written by his son-in-law J. W. Routh.

He is in jail, pending an investigation on his own unexplained fortune held in Swiss accounts.

He said: "The Conservatives' biggest donor has not paid a penny of British tax on the vast bulk of his estimated £1.1bn fortune held offshore".

Comparing income, for example, can make a rich, but unemployed, heir to a fortune held in a tax haven seem poorer than a fast-food worker.

Instead, the visitors capitalised on their fortune, held their nerve and rediscovered the authority that helped them cruise to a two-goal lead before the break.

Mr. Kerry — married to Teresa Heinz Kerry, an heir to the Heinz ketchup fortune — held $3 million worth of shares in the company last year, according to an analysis of disclosure forms by the Center for Responsive Politics.

He said that the cover grew out of a conference on the future that Fortune held last summer in Aspen, Colo., "where we invited 136 of the smartest people we know to talk about the future".