Far from being models of pure democracy, they usually followed the agenda and preferences of the chosen few, who tended to be the richest figures in the town.
Tens of thousands of poor families have left inner London in the past five years, creating "social cleansing on a vast scale" and leaving large parts of the capital as the preserve of the rich, figures suggest.
"Do you think I should get a medallion?" But the richest figures sipping Taittinger champagne were not in banking, computing or the media, but in mining coal, copper, gold, nickel and other commodities whose values are soaring.
The peridotites can be divided into two layers: pyroxene-rich and olivine-rich (Figures 2A,E,F).
Ratio maps of the ν2: ν4 peak areas indicated areas of granules likely to be ACC-rich (Figures 5d, 6d).
When I first moved to Silicon Valley back in the 1990s, not only did most of the large tech companies operate outside the city, but most of the richest figures in Silicon Valley tended to live outside the city, either north in Marin, east in Walnut Creek or south in Woodside, Palo Alto or Menlo Park.
Then he promptly began filling his administration, especially when it came to the economy, with the richest of the rich, figures guaranteed to promote the dismantling of whatever tepid regulations remained to protect citizens from economic disaster while enriching the usual.01%.01%
It's a nice little find, with sawtooth brickwork, oddball brick coursing and a rich, figured marble lobby.
In his first scenes as the doctor from abroad, Mr. Amalric doesn't stint on special effects — with plenty of tics — but under Mr. Desplechin's guidance he grows into a rich figure.
Thus, the full-length equestrian statue of St . George(1373) on Hradčany Castle in Prague, which was cast by Martin and Georg von Klausenberg, did not set a trend, though rich figure decoration is often found on large fonts dating from the 13th to the 15th century.
