Sentence examples for wealthiest class from inspiring English sources

During the Hellenistic period the priests were both the wealthiest class and the strongest political group among the Jews of Jerusalem.

A similar sense of the dangers of wealth may also have prompted the lex Voconia (169), which prohibited Romans of the wealthiest class from naming women as heirs in their wills.

Men were better informed, but even so less than 30% of the wealthiest class were aware, for example, that someone might be HIV-positive yet look healthy.Recent surveys also show that two-thirds of Egyptian girls aged 10-14 have been subjected to the traditional practice of female circumcision.

To a degree probably not seen before, members of the wealthiest class were not born into great wealth.

Voting in the Comitia Centuriata proceeded by centuries according to precedence, starting with the equites, followed by the first and wealthiest class; these groups constituted a clear majority over the combined votes of the other four classes if they voted as a block.

He also contrasted the poor and his own wealthy class.

Economic stratification, and the rise of a super-wealthy class, threatens our democracy.

It also created massive opportunities for fraud and corruption and a new wealthy class.

"We have a nucleus of people living very marginally, and a wealthy class".

"You have a wealthy class of people who buy these tickets for business purposes.

The students, ages 19 and 20, aspire to be part of Moscow's wealthy class.