Sentence examples for vast inheritance from inspiring English sources

Unfortunately, a vast inheritance materialised from his grandfather, which made him financially independent for the rest of his days.

Beckford was a wildly eccentric aesthete who went through a vast inheritance collecting art and building houses, including his famous Gothic folly, Fonthill Abbey, in Wiltshire.

As Sting reveals his decision not to leave his £180m fortune to his children, Libby Caudwell, a billionaire's daughter, reflects on why a vast inheritance can be a burden.

One of 52 children of one of the world's richest building contractors, Mr. bin Laden, who became dedicated as a young man to a resurgent Islamic faith, has used his vast inheritance -- variously estimated at $80 milion to $300 million -- to finance terrorist activities in a worldwide jihad, or holy war, against the United States.

However Durdey comes to the conclusion that the decisive factors were to use his "vast inheritance" to provide himself with a house that was "impressive, dominant and suitable for Cheshire's greatest landowner".

Gaunt dies soon after; Richard becomes increasingly dictatorial and confiscates Gaunt's vast inheritance from being granted to Bolingbroke; his banishment is converted to life, though his sons remain in the country.

The reckless bankers and financiers, he continued, "are unanimous in their hate for me — and I welcome their hatred!" F.D.R. summoned and shaped the nation's outrage against the "economic royalists" to advance his agenda of a highly progressive tax code, a steep tax on vast inheritances, fair labor standards, security for the elderly and help for the unemployed.

Louis at first consented to the match but withdrew his consent after objections from the princes and from Mme de Montespan, who desired the vast Montpensier inheritance for her children.