Sentence examples for idle wealth from inspiring English sources

That Thailand's former prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, now resides in Dubai, a city of ostentatious, idle wealth, seems apt for a telecoms tycoon turned fugitive politician.

Then ministers should raise more funds, not by taxing ordinary pay or spending, which would slow the economy, but with a levy on idle wealth.

Even if the mustard-coloured hinged-box set had no distinguishing features, the generic period costumes compensated: drop-waisted gowns in chiffons, silks and organzas for women, with the men adorned in imperial Russian military splendour playing out their final days of idle wealth before that world collapsed forever.

This type of deal would be easy to administer; there are endless businesses and ventures out there that will gladly pay the people to make something of idle lands and untapped wealth.

Another is that the poor in aggregate spend more than the rich (there are only so many motor cars and yachts a billionaire can own, so much of the super-rich's wealth sits idle. as it were), and therefore growth tends to be faster when income is more evenly distributed.

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This gets into whether we want to support a growing (in wealth) class of idle rent-seekers, both at home and abroad.

In "When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich," for instance, Harburg imagines the democratization of wealth and class: When the idle poor become the idle rich You'll never know just who is who or who is which..

The industrious rich could prove far more of a threat to equality of opportunity than the idle rich.The desire to preserve wealth lies behind one of the biggest problems with family companies, poor corporate governance and lack of transparency.

The road also takes in a few rough dormitory towns and massive factory complexes, in case you were forgetting that Euskadi pride is built on centuries of toil generating wealth for Madrid's idle middle classes.

It has even begun hiring programmers in Omsk, a remote Siberian city with a wealth of technology workers idled by the decline of Russia's military-industrial complex.