Sentence examples for state wealth from inspiring English sources

Yet rather than having two systems, it might be better to apportion state wealth taxes between the states where families live and work.

The ambitions of national rulers and the requirements of expanding industry and commerce led gradually to the adoption of economic policies based on mercantilism, a school of thought that advocated government intervention in a country's economy to increase state wealth and power.

The main left-wing opposition party, Syriza, which has vowed to reverse all privatizations if it comes to power, said Taiped was "a tool of the troika" whose goal was "the biggest sell-off of state wealth that Europe has seen since the era of East Germany".

That is partly because leaders have to be careful not to be seen as going against historical Communist Party values and also because Mr. Bo's promotion of a strong state role in the economy found widespread support among those who feared rapid privatization of state wealth.

Leila Trabelsi, the politically ambitious wife of Tunisia's Zine AliAbidine Ben Ali, was easily the most detested, a monstrous symbol of nepotism and corruption, whose embezzlement of state wealth made Imelda Marcos's nearly 3,000 pair of shoes seem trifling.

Because of technical and idiosyncratic oddities in the exact relationship between individual and state wealth, these estimates are perforce a blend of art and science.

The acquisition would give Julius Baer control of Bank of America's non-United States wealth management unit, which has around $90 billion of assets under management.

The first possibility would be scrapping the Dublin regulations, which require refugees to claim asylum in the first EU country they arrive in, in favor of a mandatory redistribution system throughout the bloc according to different states' wealth and capacity.

Hosni Mubarak's Egypt has long functioned as a state where wealth bought political power and political power bought great wealth.

The reporter notes "Hosni Mubarak's Egypt has long functioned as a state where wealth bought political power and political power bought great wealth".

Merchants and entrepreneurs are merely recyclers of state-owned and state-generated wealth and a previously open and culturally and religiously accommodating society has been replaced by beleaguered communities locked in laagers.