Sentence examples for obtaining wealth from inspiring English sources

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".

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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].

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.

Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) is the most widely used thermal technique for obtaining a wealth of information about a material.

They exist for the sole purpose of obtaining increased wealth through their ownership stake.