Sentence examples for seizing wealth from inspiring English sources
Writers such as Thomas Carlyle expected a repeat of the horrors that followed the French revolution in 1789 or the barricades of 1848: mass unrest and disorder, with the newly enfranchised crowd seizing wealth and power.
By contrast, nowadays, the president appeals to a populist ideal of the masses seizing wealth and power from the rich and powerful--while enforcing his own political grip on the nation.
It is not a liberal era — when government intervenes to seize wealth and power and distribute it to the have-nots.
Governments can be tempted to print money recklessly or seize wealth brazenly from their citizens — Venezuelan hyperinflation and Indian demonetization are recent examples.
seize wealth and natural resources.
I suppose you would call him an economic populist: he advocated, among other things, unionisation, shrinking government and reducing taxes, abolishing the Federal Reserve, nationalising resources and seizing private wealth during wartime.
The test may come if a serious attempt is made to seize their wealth.
The sight of the treasure he carried roused the cupidity of the sailors, who resolved to kill him and seize his wealth.
If you're holding excess claims, you might use whatever means are available to you to encourage the government not to seize your wealth through taxation or inflation.
On the day of the festival, the Maharaja showed up at the temple armed, with a contingent of soldiers; he eventually ordered a number of rebels to be executed, seized their wealth, levelled their homes, and sold their wives and children into slavery.
The king's remains were buried in a corner of the chapel of a Franciscan monastery, the Greyfriars Priory, that like Richard fell victim to the Tudor kings when Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries and seized their wealth about 50 years after Richard's death.
