Sentence examples for potentially wealthy from inspiring English sources

Under Touré's uncertain economic leadership, however, the potentially wealthy country did not prosper.

In the opening ceremony, a brave young woman interrupted the Republic of Congo's Minister of Culture to condemn poverty and homelessness in a potentially wealthy land: a pure Achebe moment.

The people of potentially wealthy provinces such as East Kalimantan and Riau have long grumbled that Jakarta siphons off all the revenue from their oil and gas without providing anything in return.

Indeed this country, which Mr. Clinton avoided, amounts to towering testimony to just how deep into misery a potentially wealthy nation can be dragged by mismanagement, corruption and oppression.

Iran at heart is a country like any other, struggling to free itself from poisonous colonial and imperial legacies, pursuing its rights and interests in a world dominated by great powers, fought over by competing secular and religious elites, talented, potentially wealthy, badly governed, and deeply uncertain how to meet the rising expectations of coming generations.

The economic decline and the ruin of irrigation systems that had affected central and southern Iraq do not seem to have been as marked in Al-Jazīrah, where agriculture was largely dry farming, dependent on rainfall; the area was consequently less potentially wealthy than the south but also less vulnerable to political upset.

The past few years have seen most of the biggest and (potentially) wealthiest clubs being bought up by very rich foreigners who think they have the funds to subsidise a top class, or even second class, football club.

Opponents of so-called zero rating have criticized the practice because it potentially allows wealthy companies to muscle their way in front of consumers at the expense of smaller rivals.

Economically, Indonesia is potentially the wealthiest nation in South-East Asia, for its natural resources surpass those of Japan, Korea, Taiwan or India: it is one of the ten largest oil-producing countries; it ranks first in the exportation of liquified natural gas (most of which goes to Japan) and it has vast timber forests, gold, rubber, tin & coffee.

This raises the inevitable question: is it the potentially healthy and wealthy who marry.

As a legalistic opening text takes hilarious pains to make clear, Harry Shearer's improvisational satire "Teddy Bears Picnicc" is in no way concerned with this group of wealthy, potentially litigious individuals.