Sentence examples for wealth extraction from inspiring English sources

But what is to stop wealth extraction continuing?

MPs have accused Green of being an "unscrupulous chancer" and overseeing "wealth extraction rather than wealth creation".

Two other cables provide graphic detail of such "wealth extraction" on the part of the governors of key provinces in eastern Afghanistan.

He was accused of being an "unscrupulous chancer" and overseeing "wealth extraction rather than wealth creation" during a parliamentary debate into the collapse of BHS.

Using the same word for different activities "camouflages the sources of wealth", leading us to confuse wealth extraction with wealth creation.

And the story in both those professions has not been of brilliant returns to shareholders or vast improvements for society, but of wealth extraction and lobbying politicians, Davos-style.

Unlike Australia, Norway has kept their resource extraction wealth in their control without it fattening up a capitalist exploiting of finite mineral resources.

Only a fraction of the wealth accrued from extraction is left in the host country – to say nothing of the communities often "resettled" – ergo forcibly removed – from the land concerned.

It's true that it creates much wealth through resource extraction and manufacturing, but a growing number of these jobs require higher education.

Sustainability of oil wealth through incremental extraction (in proportion to local or national needs) is not on the agenda of development organisations.

That millions of Africans were forcibly taken to the Caribbean colonies by British slave traders, that the wealth they extracted came at a horrific cost and that while that wealth continues to flow through British society today, its extraction is still keenly felt in the islands of the West Indies.