Sentence examples for on our wealth from inspiring English sources

But feeling at one with the mathematics and engineering fanatics in our own household, I would tell myself that our mastery did not depend on our wealth but on our modern, western outlook.

It is a call to save ourselves from becoming fixated on our wealth and on providing our children with the latest gadget and games, which ultimately are mere distractions from our remembrance of the creator.

Based on our wealth estimates, these 58 pledges amount to a promise to eventually donate at least $139 billion.

Today it's the opposite: a drain on our wealth that drives conflict, threatens the planet, and stifles real growth, and the technologies that can sustain it.

We've been in this marathon mode since our lives were turned inside out by the attacks on symbols of our wealth, our sense of freedom, our security.

What kind of people do we want to be? Do we, as a rich country, want to spend a tiny proportion of our wealth on saving and improving lives in poor countries?

In the West, we lived under the specter of nuclear war and spent a huge share of our wealth on our military, at a terrible social cost.

As long as 1percentt of our people control 40percentt of our wealth and 60percentt of our people live on 2.3percentt of our wealth, economic justice for the majority of Americans of any color isn't even on the short list of our national priorities.

According to our wealth index on socio economic status using common household assets in rural northern Ghana, 43.8% were relatively poor, 20.8% were within the middle class while 35.4% were within the rich tertile.

They are terrified that if they do not continue to support the current Ponzi scheme on which our wealth and stability are based, then the whole of the western world will end up looking like Greece and that is not the foundation on which to keep in power.

Prof. Wood contends there is substantial basis in case law, U.S. statutes and international treaties to hold public officials accountable as "trustees of the commons," responsible for protecting the air, water, soils and other natural resources on which our wealth and health depend.