Sentence examples for gained a fortune from inspiring English sources

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Jeronimo Arango and his two brothers, Manuel and Placido Arango, gained a fortune when they sold their stake in retailer Cifra to Wal-Mart's Mexican arm in 1997.

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A handful of fanatical ideologues, along with a somewhat larger number of money men who stand to gain a fortune from supply-side policies, relentlessly enforce the faith.

It told the story of a man who gains a fortune but loses the love of his life on a "prospecting" expedition aboard an alien spaceship, one of many left behind by the mysterious Heechee, who have taken refuge from even more mysterious aliens inside a black hole.

By acting as a sort of bat-signal for the movement, Netta and Deray have gained a national profile earlier this year, Fortune ranked the pair at No. 11 on its list of the World's Greatest Leaders, 12 spots ahead of Elon Musk.

The Wangs may have lost their fortune but they have gained a new set of Chinese relatives whom they meet in a late, climactic banquet, where they feast on stewed chicken testicles, turtle soup and other delicacies, enjoying the "jangle of this unfamiliar homeland" while knowing they will in the end return, altered, to their American home.

In 1999, having lost a mini-fortune in China, Mr. Murdoch gained a wife; he married Wendi Deng 17 days after divorcing his second wife, to whom he had been married for three decades.

Tymoshenko's critics have suggested that, as an oligarch, she gained her fortune improperly.

Alina married a wealthy landowner from Smilavichy, whose father had gained his fortune by managing property for the Ogiński family.

Suppose one adds to the desert principle the further norm that when a person has less than she deserves, it is morally more valuable to gain an increment of good fortune for that person, the greater the gap between what she has and what she deserves.

Speaking in the room where ten years before Steve Jobs launched the iPod – the music player which revived Apple's fortunes and helped it gain a dominant position in consumer electronics – Cook said that "I consider it the privilege of a lifetime to have worked here almost 14 years".

Lee, Sid Andperry Bass Net worth: $6.6 billion Lee, 41, and Sid, 56, gained oil fortune from father, Perry, 83.

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