Sentence examples for illegitimate wealth from inspiring English sources

Most political parties are engaged in an unseemly scramble for power – the perks of which can be a means of amassing illegitimate wealth – rather than good governance.

Their mission was to redistribute to the impoverished masses the "illegitimate" wealth accumulated before the revolution by "apostates" and "blood-sucking capitalists".

The vast majority of Russian voters deem oligarchs' wealth illegitimate.

But gambling is an illegitimate route to wealth, particularly for the government of a tribe or a state.

Elements like Mary's mentally ill father, her illegitimate daughter, the wealth of Mary's lover and the working-class origins of the investigating psychiatrist never become integral to the action.

The issues associated with Sanders -- illegitimate power of wealth -- and those associated with Trump -- the white poor, relations with Russia -- were all swept away.

Everyone but Walker can see that he's being set up for a double cross when this young temptress asks him to trace her late husband's illegitimate progeny so they can share the wealth.

"While I could not bear the idea of a church that denounced art and beauty," she concludes, "did that really mean I approved of one that sold salvation and let its bishops and popes siphon off church wealth into the pockets of their illegitimate children?

Indeed, a law of primogeniture is illegitimate as it inhibits a man's right to distribute his wealth as he wishes (LPPO 224).

As an illegitimate son, Olaf was entitled to one mark of his father's wealth; this was, however, customarily understood to be a mark of silver and not gold.

You do not want the nation to discover the little or no taxes you have paid, how illegitimate many of your business transactions were, and what is in fact your true wealth.