Sentence examples for supposedly wealthy from inspiring English sources

As the recession and high unemployment take their toll, there are hungry families all across the country: in cities and suburbs, poor, middle class and even supposedly wealthy communities.

But a wave of arrests in the runup to parliamentary elections has exacerbated protests in the surprisingly poor villages where Shia communities live in this supposedly wealthy Gulf state, and provoked more demonstrations in the capital, Manama.

One of the very first millennial shows, in fact, "Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire," was notable in that it auctioned off what producers called the "biggest prize of all": a supposedly wealthy B-movie writer named Rick Rockwell — who was later revealed to have had a restraining order filed against him by a woman he'd threatened to kill.

It's not surprising many people conclude that big businesses are to blame for this when daily headlines juxtapose revelations of rising executive pay alongside stories of how falling wages are trapping low-paid workers and their families in poverty, even in supposedly wealthy nations.

Beyond that, Yiannopoulos's public performances promise his fans that you can have traits perceived to confer sociopolitical disadvantage yet still be part of a supposedly wealthy, unflappable elite; his identity factors let him market a kind of old-fashioned idea of power to other people who feel disenfranchised.

Betty is unaware of Wilma's high-fashion mother, the overweening, over-the-top Pearl Slaghoople (Joan Collins), "a regular Joan Crawfish"; her father, the dotty Colonel Slaghoople (Harvey Korman); and the handsome, hissable Chip Rockefeller Thomas Gibsonn), a supposedly wealthy Rock Vegas resort owner.

Said to be the daughter of an unspecified noblewoman, she was supposedly young, wealthy and living in fashionable Manchester Square.

He sought to improve his financial position when, in about 1920, he met Arthur John Gordon, supposedly a wealthy American company promoter but in reality an undischarged bankrupt and confidence trickster.

How ironic that we need this "technology transfer" from Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world, to help our own people who are suffering in what is supposedly the wealthiest country in the world.

Yes, of course, killings happen in other wealthy, supposedly peaceful countries, but nowhere with the ease and normalcy with which they happen here.

Without major changes, this deal is looking more and more like traditional "supply side economics," the theory that tax cuts for the top help everyone else, because the wealthy supposedly turn around and spend and invest more.