Sentence examples for obtained wealth from inspiring English sources

But last week a pointed article in the official party newspaper, the People's Daily, said corrupt officials had been secretly using children, wives, friends and even mistresses to move and hide illicitly obtained wealth overseas.

In some cases, both may be true, but there are many millionaires who started with little and obtained wealth through hard work, dedication and a never-ending willingness to acquire new knowledge.

"I mainly did this to obtain wealth and become well-known," CCTV quoted Mr. Chen as saying.

This ambivalence kept him from leaping headlong into the movement, but it also mirrored the urban proletariat's love-hate relationship with a laissez-faire capitalism that rewards and celebrates those who obtain wealth by any means necessary.

NEW YORK TIMES Financial Shenanigans on the Big Screen  |  Leonardo DiCaprio, who portrays Jordan Belfort in the upcoming movie "The Wolf of Wall Street" (directed by Martin Scorsese), tells New York magazine that the memoir on which the film is based "personified America's addiction to obtaining wealth at all costs, and that hasn't changed".

Although the 32 assets used in this study to obtain wealth distribution in Nigeria are more than the eight assets used in a Mauritania study [15] and 15 and 11 assets used in the rural and peri-urban villages respectively in a Chinese study [4], inclusion of more assets to provide for regional differences in values and preferences would improve its accuracy.

Its amazing how many people are willfully ignorant about how much privilege factors into obtaining wealth.

Sellers portrayed an ex-schoolmaster in a small French town who turns to a life of crime to obtain wealth.

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was run, and four principal components with eigenvalues greater than one were summed to obtain wealth index values [ 39].

Having obtained their wealth by buying state assets on the cheap, trading heavily on their Kremlin connections, most of Russia's "oligarchs" survived the devastating financial crash of August 1998 by a cynical manipulation of their remaining properties.

Otofuji and colleagues obtained a wealth of paleomagnetic and radiometric results from in and around the Izumo area (Otofuji and Matsuda 1983 , 1984 , 1987Otofuji et al. 1991), and these results played an important role in the development of the 15-Ma rapid rotation model (these studies are reviewed by Otofuji 1996).