Sentence examples for prodigious wealth from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Smith, in Federal District Court on Tuesday, described how he helped Mr. Rajaratnam add to his prodigious wealth by trading on illegal stock tips.

The banker, Heather Webster, reviewed the prodigious wealth accumulated by Mr. Gupta, a former global head of McKinsey & Company, the elite management consulting firm.

Mr. Robertson continued investing on his own, and he also used his prodigious wealth to seed promising young managers, including Mr. Hwang.

What struck Roger C. Altman the most was that such abject poverty could exist in a seascape studded by natural splendor and prodigious wealth.

It is a tale of greed, hubris, empire and religious persecution; also of human civilisation, prodigious wealth, architectural glory and religious tolerance.

During the sentencing of the former hedge fund manager Anthony Chiasson on Monday, Judge Richard J. Sullivan marveled at his prodigious wealth, ticking off the annual income listed on his tax returns.

That these may be intimately linked, not only at times of insufficiency and misery, but at times of prodigious wealth-creation and excess, is the taboo which prevents a more rigorous examination of that most lasting of relationships, the one between economy and society.

Now you would think this prodigious a wealth of opportunity would have everyone shouting "Abbondanza".

Russia, under Vladimir Putin, used its prodigious oil wealth to rebuild and refurbish its military, which had largely disintegrated following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

In a lengthy interview this week, Mr. Weiner said that he "understands the prodigious influence of wealth," but that he will not back down, even if Mr. Bloomberg prevails in rewriting the term-limits law and enters the 2009 race.

"The present century has been marked by a prodigious increase in wealth producing power," he writes in the opening of Progress and Poverty.