Sentence examples for private affluence from inspiring English sources

In the 1950s John Kenneth Galbraith bemoaned the existence of "private affluence and public squalor".

She had left a Britain marked by private affluence and public squalor.

Private affluence, population mobility and social diversity are among the factors weakening solidaristic institutions and impulses.

He means the America of Ronald Reagan and George Bush, with its private affluence and public squalor.

In short, it offers a way to address the problem of "private affluence and public squalor" that John Kenneth Galbraith identified in the 1950s.

One of the first guests was the renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith, best known for his critique of private affluence amid public squalor.

The most likely answers include private preoccupation with affluence and the excrescent excesses of campaign finance.

With the economy suffering, this "public affluence, private squalor" is causing real resentment.

The business lobby is throwing big money into ads opposing the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), which would make it easier for workers to join unions, but one concern it has neglected to address is how the United States can again become a land of broad-based affluence with private-sector unionization at its current 7percentt level.

"The fact that approaching half the children in London have received private tuition reflects the relative affluence of the capital, increased competition for school places and, perhaps, some parental concerns over the quality of their children's schooling.

Greater affluence also led to more private homes being built, so that by the mid 1960s house building peaked at more than 400,000 a year.