Sentence examples for respectable fortune from inspiring English sources
Across the Channel, in the Netherlands, Queen Beatrix Queen Beatrix, 63, and the rest of the royal House of Orange share a much more respectable fortune of $3.2 billion.
The Sporting Life reported that Dunlap "dropped out of the game in 1892 to follow the racing game, at which he lost the respectable fortune he accumulated in base ball".
New apartment houses pushing up everywhere erased old social boundaries (though the Kolonáki district on the southeast slope of Likavittós remained an enclave of respectable fortunes), and villages that had been attached to the city in the previous expansion lost their physical and political identities.
But a single woman of good fortune is always respectable and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else".
Evgeny Lebedev is fighting hard to make his family's fortune respectable, and so far he seems to be winning.
"It was the genteelest town in North America, and many of its inhabitants were highly respectable, as to station, fortune and education," he later wrote.
"Now, with the rapid growth of riches, millionaires are too common to receive much deference; a fortune of a million is only respectable poverty," McAllister said.
You have to look deeper than that.Diana herself had married one of the most respectable men in Britain, Bryan Guinness, heir to a brewing fortune, and had borne him two sons before running away with Oswald Mosley.
For you see the very root of the American dream is not success by fame and fortune but upward mobility through hard work and respectable values.
John Blair was "one of the most respectable men in Virginia, both on account of his Family as well as fortune".
Some people Rubin spoke to said the Karzais might come to have a more respectable legacy, like reformed American robber barons or "families who made their fortunes during Prohibition".
