Supercell is one of a handful of standout successes in the mobile game business, where it has proved difficult for many companies to make money — or at least to hold on to their prosperity.
Entire country towns depended for their prosperity on profits from big grazing estates and dairy farms.
"The vice president can lay no claim on their personal prosperity or professional success," Mr. Ridge added.
While this transition will bring enormous opportunities in employment, innovation and our quality of life, it will fall harder on those regions that have traditionally based their prosperity on fossil fuels.
Wearers could display their prosperity by putting on multiple layers of fabric, which at that time was costly.
Godard derides his protagonists' vulgarity, ignorance, triviality, and venality; he confronts the worldwide misery that their prosperity depends on; and he repudiates, on aesthetic as well as moral grounds, the industrial society that both produces and sustains their warped values.
The Caymans have built their prosperity less on tourism, like most other Caribbean islands, and more on serving as a tax-free home for 9,253 hedge funds and many more banks and companies that pay small fees to establish the Caymans as their official domicile while operating mostly elsewhere around the world.
Hostilities between the Seleucids and Ptolemies enabled the Nabataeans to extend their kingdom northward and to increase their prosperity based on the caravan trade with Arabia and Syria.
Their prosperity was based entirely on alliances in London -- it was all about who you knew.
