Sentence examples for search for wealth from inspiring English sources

During the gold rush, we read, miners went west in a "search for wealth, but often found discrimination instead".

The English were rivals of the Spaniards in the search for wealth in unknown lands in the Pacific.

By the end of the 20th century, some scholars speculated that being American simply meant participation in the search for wealth and stability.

Holland was still a significant maritime power, and the search for wealth lured its ships to places far away, to an island called Manhattan in North America, and to a plantation settlement in northeast Brazil.

"Geography, topography, ethnicity, ideology, climate, natural resources, the search for wealth, mass migrations, all set the framework; but the random roll of the dice is as potent a force as any," he writes.

Their hero, played with toothy glee by George Clooney, is a hyper-articulate escaped convict named Ulysses Everett McGill, who wanders the dusty byways of Depression-era Mississippi with a pair of dimwitted companions, searching for wealth, his wife and his favorite hair treatment, a gooey pomade called Dapper Dan.

Before proto-globalization, globalizing networks were the product of "great kings and warriors searching for wealth and honor in fabulous lands, by religious wanderers,...and by merchant princes".

Thay suggests that our search for fame, wealth, power and sexual gratification provides the perfect refuge for people to hide from the truth about the many challenges facing the world.

The search for sovereign wealth and Chinese money may be increasingly seen not as a quest for loans to back up rock-solid European commitments, but as a substitute for commitments that have not been forthcoming.

Many new members come in search of wealth and power.

For hundreds of years people have been drawn westward across the United States in search of wealth.