Their wealth drove a local mini-boom.
Over the past decade, Oman's oil wealth drove economic growth, but business and state contracts were consolidated in the hands of a few merchant families; the country's new riches were commonly perceived as being unevenly distributed.
Escalating wealth driven by a bull market cannot be divorced from the atrophying of the middle class when stock repurchases and cash reserves nudge earnings per share and stock prices higher but do nothing to create employment or increase national productivity.
Growing personal wealth drives the appetite for jewelry, which is today nearly half of all demand.
Amazon's wealth drives its corporate power, which forces governments to do its bidding by applying to its reverse RFP process.
Individual productivity and wealth, driven by successful CC and DC/CD strategy outcomes of individual transactions, help accelerate the emergence of modern secular RS and expressive SE norms and values, while democratic D preferences solidify, but are not engrained throughout all of society.
Over the long run, it just nudges us toward pointing out that the pursuit of wealth drives societal advancement which the reformists in the party favor and it's not just a license to grab, grab, grab (and bribe), which the reformists as well as old co….
The river crossings that preceded it were built to connect the town to the plantations, and slaveowner wealth drove local development.
If national wealth drives secularization, the global population will cross an atheist threshold where the majority see religion as unimportant by 2041.
Her resentment of the uneven distribution of wealth drove her to fight on behalf of labor unions throughout her entire life, and we owe much of our current culture of activism to her efforts.
Go back four years to the near global financial meltdown of September 2008 that is now estimated to have destroyed $19.2 trillion of wealth, driven millions out of work, caused millions to lose their homes and crushed the retirement dreams of an untold numbers, and the names at the center that crisis are still featured in today's headlines.
