Sentence examples for to become affluent from inspiring English sources

"In a sense, Singapore is presented as the kind of society Kim says he wants North Korea to become: affluent and high-tech but under strong leadership," Mr. Armstrong said.

One of the driving forces behind much of entrepreneurship is the possibility to become affluent.

That is, you do not have to be driven to become affluent, as it can happen in the course of your career.

Every day, a hundred thousand people join India's middle class, and many have become affluent enough to eat out every week.

"The arrival of Starbucks and Ben & Jerry's just confirms what the neighborhood has become: affluent and well educated.

Mao was born in the village of Shaoshan in Hunan province, the son of a former peasant who had become affluent as a farmer and grain dealer.

Desperation to become wildly affluent major leaguers leads most these youngsters to destitution.

He predicted that life in a modernized world "is likely to become crowded, affluent, nasty, brutish and long".

One of MacLeod's spokesman heroes, a miner whose children will have a "better" life, offers a bitter prophecy: "Our sons will go to the universities to study dentistry or law and to become fatly affluent before they are 30.

Kaesong, which opened in 2004, is the legacy of a far calmer period, when back to-back liberal governments in Seoul thought economic engagement would open the North to become more affluent and peaceful.

New millionaires in China and India have helped propel the combined wealth of Asia Pacific's richest individuals past their peers in Europe, with the region's wealthiest predicted to become more affluent than millionaires in North America over the next 12 months.