Sentence examples for wealthier lands from inspiring English sources

There are vigorous flows of money from cities to the countryside in developing countries, but in wealthier lands roots seem more easily forgotten.

As the frightening tale goes, globalization forced people in wealthier lands like North America and Europe to compete directly with cheaper laborers in Asia and Latin America, sowing joblessness.

Their pressure resulted in a variety of elections, based on different voting qualifications, such as the Prussian three-class franchise, which granted to some electoral groups — chiefly the wealthier, landed ones — greater representative power.

These factions were separated in part along class lines, with the wealthier land owners and merchants who dominated the legislature's upper house (called the "court of assistants") favoring accommodation, while the more representative lower house favored the hardliners.

Such news flashes offer viewers in placid, wealthy lands the option of responding with pity or indifference.

Matt King is the patriarch of a wealthy, land-owning family in Hawaii.

A minuscule minority of the wealthy, landed elite would see diminished profits.

Napoleon cultivated the loyalty of the nation's wealthy landed proprietors by a system of patronage and honours.

The scrappy son of an amateur wrestler, Mr. Dasti has clawed his way into Pakistan's Parliament, beating the wealthy, landed families who have ruled here.

Bronisław Malinowski's mother, Józefa, née Łącka, of a moderately wealthy land-owning family, was highly cultured and a good linguist.

Poor farmhands and unemployed town dwellers who squatted on land here are as filled with optimism as wealthy land owners are with dread.