Sentence examples for over riches from inspiring English sources

But as I watched the opera, my mind kept flashing to the "The Social Network," another dazzling drama about quarrels over riches, social hierarchy, envy, theft and the consequences of deceit.

This is a drama about quarrels over riches, social hierarchy, envy, theft and the consequence of deceit — a world upended where the vassals suddenly become lords and the lords suddenly lose their magic.

Had so much money not been at stake, these leaders might have been able to settle their differences without bloodshed, but competition over riches, combined with the impatience with dialogue that Johnson describes, made the meltdown almost inevitable.

While the Republicans fight over their riches, the Democrats dream of deliverance.

Page A11 DIVIDE OVER OIL RICHES There is money by the barrelful for those with mineral rights.

Is this just another public battle over riches--like when Macauley Culkin's parents fought over his millions--or are your parents seriously worried about your well-being?

In South Korean chaebol, heirs are often at one another's throats over the riches left to them by deceased patriarchs.

Although the conflict in Ituri, fueled by rivalries for power and control over mineral riches, dated to the 1990s, the court's jurisdiction only went into effect in 2002.

She initially embarked upon a pupillage in chancery, but her appetite for public law and policy prevailed as she opted for the Government Legal Service over the riches that private practice would no doubt have brought.

The complaint against Middlesex is that in giving Hughes a short contract, which he chose over the riches of the Indian Premier League, it provided him with a pre-Ashes training course.

Here he is describing Beau, midlife: And in the middle — the sleek young adult, ambling through the blazing beech wood some Provincetown autumn when the leaves seem an extravagant spilling over of riches, his big black paws wet with dew, his lovely thick nostrils working overtime, sleek retriever tail in the air.