Sentence examples for initial fortune from inspiring English sources
Akhmetov had made his initial fortune trading it.
Steyer, who made his initial fortune engaging in arbitrage, has employed unconventional tactics at times to achieve his goals.
Terry — who reportedly had made his initial fortune buying sick slaves and then reselling them for profit — first began doing business with Moses Taylor as early as 1838.
Unless Chiltern lies to the House, she will reveal to the world that he made his initial fortune by passing on privileged information.
Mancini, who made his initial fortune as a player scoring goals, principally with Sampdoria, described Cavani's afterwards as, "Two stupid goals.
Widener made his initial fortune as a purveyor of meat to the army in the civil war, before becoming the public transport mogul and princely art collector.
He is one of a long line of tech tycoons from Michael Dell to Bill Gates who made their initial fortunes in their twenties and thirties.
Though Musk is close with Trump tech liaison Peter Thiel — Musk and Thiel both made their initial fortunes from launching PayPal — his selection as a Trump adviser comes as something of a surprise.
The pattern is familiar the majority of Mexico's billionaires made their initial fortunes off state privatizations under scandalous terms during the Salinas administration and since then they have formed a powerful lobby for further privatizations, along with international finance institutions like the World Bank.
Murphy had initial good fortune in leaving Ebdon with no pot after a couple of safety shots went awry but he never looked like missing once among the balls.
It's one thing to have both Gabriel and Jesus as passive recipients of their initial good fortunes, but quite another to see Jesus' drug problem and Skip's writing block magically whisked away at novel's end.
