Sentence examples for pockets of affluent from inspiring English sources

Pockets of affluent communities soon found their native American chestnuts developing orange cankers.

Frankly, it's hard to believe that such a cut will lead to much additional spending -- especially if it goes mainly into the pockets of affluent consumers, whose spending is not limited by lack of ready cash.

When this billionaire plutocrat charlatan – who poses as a man of the people as he enriches himself at their expense – implements a $5.5tn cut that shamelessly shovels money into the pockets of affluent and wealthy Americans, he should be resisted.

Unsurprisingly, the majority comes from within the state or elsewhere in New England (almost every "Mainer" has his or her own summer "camp" regardless of income) but there are pockets of affluent outsiders who have formed their own communities over the years.

In the pockets of affluent districts in Shanghai and Beijing, there are a growing number of organic cafes and farmers markets springing up in fashionable malls. .

In the pockets of affluent districts in Shanghai and Beijing, there are a growing number of organic cafes and farmers markets springing up in fashionable malls.

The British government, apart from pensions, pays large sums to the elderly, much of which ends up in the pockets of more affluent citizens.

But the surrounding suburbs, with their pockets of educated, affluent whites alongside struggling communities of blue-collar whites, are expected to be a battleground.

From the Midwestern rust-belt to the burst housing bubbles of Nevada, California and Florida, even in small pockets of still affluent regions like Du Page County, Ill., the nation's soaring poverty rates are visibly reclaiming last century's triumphal "crabgrass frontier".

The trend has also widened the gap between the rich and everyone else as, overall, the economy has continued to grow overall but the bulk of those gains have ended up in the pockets of the affluent.

One in six families are covering essential costs with payday loans or unauthorised overdrafts, or are defaulting on household bills, in the most financially distressed parts of Britain, according to research which suggests that some of the neighbourhoods struggling the most are concealed in pockets of otherwise affluent areas.