Sentence examples for inherited fortune from inspiring English sources

But these properties were paid for through their hard work in business, Count Arco said, not an inherited fortune.

He has taken refuge there after losing his inherited fortune (which came from soap manufacture, a fact he hates remembering) on horses and cards.

Its emptiness seems to symbolise Elliot's emotional paralysis, brought on by a suspicion (later confirmed) that his inherited fortune is somehow tainted.

Osama bin Laden originally rose to prominence because his inherited fortune allowed him to bankroll Arab volunteers fighting Soviet forces in Afghanistan.

In Dynamite (1929), his first talking picture, a frivolous society girl marries a poor death-row inmate to retain her inherited fortune, but her plans for a brief marriage are upset when he is proved innocent.

A down-at-the-heels dandy who squandered his inherited fortune and now lives hand to mouth, he is a spiritual cousin of Cole Porter, whom Mr. Kline gracefully portrayed in "De-Lovely," the otherwise execrable Porter screen biography.

Teddy Roosevelt advocated an inheritance tax because he thought that huge inherited fortunes would ruin the character of the republic.

And some use inherited fortunes to fund great public museums or seek cures for disease.

"It may have a political effect," Mr. Van Reenen said of the shift from inherited fortunes to self-made ones.

Then there is the utopian Thomas Johnes, who spent three inherited fortunes on his wonderfully situated gothic pile in Hafod, Wales.

These might include inherited fortunes (as in Ms Radmacher's case), a family firm or a prized possession.The ruling stops well short of the almost automatic implementation of such deals that is common in continental Europe.