Sentence examples for legitimate wealth from inspiring English sources

With few obvious sources of legitimate wealth, other possibilities are foreign spending and opium poppies.

The owner of an "impenetrable mass of stolen property," Lionel is baffled by legitimate wealth.

Of course, the Chinese economy has been growing rapidly for about three decades, creating much legitimate wealth.

The court rejected Mr. Cuellar's further argument that the prosecution had to prove that he had intended to create "the appearance of legitimate wealth".

If the cultural side-effect of such displays by prominent men is to reinforce that the only legitimate wealth is shared (or partly wasted) wealth, will the supply of motivation to create, to innovate, be diminished?

The Dickensian theme of Amis's novel is the corrupting influence of money, as his antihero, a career criminal with a vestigial conscience, wins the lottery and is baffled by legitimate wealth.

In a piece for the New York Times, columnist Ross Douthat wrote about the ambiguous concept of "sexual redistribution," citing an earlier blog post by the economist Robin Hanson, which had suggested incel plight not being able to get laid was possibly as legitimate as wealth inequality.

Watkins calls the questions about his wealth legitimate and acknowledges that neither his law practice, which he shut down a few years ago, nor his small bank, Alamerica Bank, has given him enough resources to buy a team.

Yet amid all the legitimate concern surrounding wealth and inequality and unfettered capitalism, it can be easy to forget the other side of the argument: that luxury can be more than just a high price tag.

The public tap became a legitimate source of wealth for the well connected, but also a wellspring of corruption and political patronage, much as it had been for the white minority during apartheid.

How absurd to boycott the World Cup when Russian money and influence is still utterly bound up in our economy, legal system and politics; when Russian wealth, legitimate and occasionally questionable, is hungrily consumed by the great sluicing global laundry that is the London property market.