Sentence examples for to acquire wealth from inspiring English sources

In Vietnam's patronage-fuelled business culture, a good way to acquire wealth and power is to milk one's official connections.

On nominal salaries, clerks (known then as writers), cadets, assistant surgeons, ship captains and ship husbands, who handled charters, all found opportunities to acquire wealth.

If, for example, a society impelled its members to acquire wealth yet offered inadequate means for them to do so, the strain would cause many people to violate norms.

That "contravenes the tenets of many religions that to acquire wealth for the sake of accumulating riches is wrong, and that one should seek to forgive those that have trespassed against them".

Wealth as well as income was shared more evenly: the richest were taxed progressively, while more people started to acquire wealth by owning their own homes, building up pensions and savings.

The story is a reflection of society and how people driven by a lust for money can stoop to any extent to acquire wealth even if it comes at the cost of relationships and betrays the nation.

Expanding means testing could also mean having it apply only to select parts of Medicare, such as part B (which provides out-patient care) or part D (prescription coverage).The problem with means testing is that it may distort incentives to work and acquire wealth,because it is essentially a tax increase for the wealthy.

The barons were hostile to the Despensers, due to their acquired wealth and perceived arrogance, and in 1321 they were banished.

Once you acquire wealth, then you can volunteer or give back to charity.

We're told elected positions can help politicians acquire wealth -- hence the fights over voting -- but what are the methods used to acquire that wealth?

Built in 1897 for the mayor of Bad Ischl, the house is typical of summer homes built in the area during the Industrial Revolution, when people built elaborate homes to flaunt newly acquired wealth, according to the listing agent.