Sentence examples for rich swept from inspiring English sources

The very factors that made new enterpreneurs rich swept older entrepreneurs from their perches.

But it is good to see Darci Kistler, in the title role, opening herself to the rich sweep of the Rieti-Bellini score.

But hey, you don't have to be rich to sweep your girl off her feet.

The twenties were the years of postwar American gaiety in Europe, and the Cole Porters were happily involved with the shining fleet of vicomtes, contessas, princes incognito, and rich Americans that swept from Paris to London, to the Lido, to the Riviera, with Elsa Maxwell as the tireless tugboat that pulled them forever onward.

But much depends on behaviour and attitudes in parts of the world that have yet to experience the sudden drop in birthrates that swept across rich countries in the three decades after the second world war.

Such was the start of Pentecostalism, which swept through rich and poor countries alike in the 20th century, transcending barriers of sex and culture, and surviving schisms and frequent financial scandals.That story is told with admirable clarity and detail by Allan Heaton Anderson, a British professor of religion and former Pentecostal minister, in "To the Ends of the Earth".

It is a clear appeal to small farmers worried that joining Europe means that rich foreigners will sweep up their land.

The hayloft on the flat, rich Georgia field here was swept away in 1987, transformed like so much of the state into a manufacturing plant with flagpoles, loading docks and endless blank walls.

That is a problem for a great diversity of wild things trying to thrive alongside humans.Beihai sits in a tight-lipped bay on the Gulf of Tonkin, where the rich silt of estuaries is swept and trapped by turbid currents a paradise for molluscs and those that hunt them.

SÃO PAULO, Brazil — André Esteves is not the only rich and powerful Brazilian to be swept up in a corruption investigation that has rocked the country.

Here six percussionists produced waves of spirited noise that swept through the orchestration, itself rich in athletic figuration, explosions of timbre and humorous touches.