Sentence examples similar to wealthiest classes 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.

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

The members of both groups belonged to the wealthier classes.

Polygyny is restricted to the chiefly and wealthy classes.

The ephebia became an institution for the wealthy classes only.

Taxis and cars, with or without chauffeurs, are the transport of the wealthier classes.

Currently 39% of wealthier classes do regular sport, a 1% increase since 2005.

Speaks of how the wealthy classes live and amuse themselves, cafe life, movies, lotteries and gambling, concerts.

Meat was a rare and expensive treat, so people developed a taste for the bits that wealthier classes discarded.

The "purist" idea, it is claimed, was a 19th-century invention to restrict the Olympics to the wealthy classes.