Sentence examples for wealthy past from inspiring English sources

The elegance of its white buildings echoes northern Germany's sophisticated and wealthy past.

It is a dim echo of Calafat's wealthy past, when dozens of such mansions lined the Via Traiana, the city's main road.

He has also given up, for now, his effort to use the economy's deepening woes as an excuse to extend his tax cuts for the wealthy past their 2010 expiration date.

And the unions distracted some of Schwarzenegger's wealthy past allies, drug manufacturers, by sponsoring Proposition 79, which would have required them to discount drugs for low-income people.

What it lacks — glamorous night life, a lively commercial downtown — it makes up for with its legacies from a wealthier past, its accessibility and its bargains.

There may be no simple solution to our problems, and those already struggling to make ends meet while the wealthy fly past on corporate jets will wonder who it was who lost the decade, and for whom.

For polar bear hunters, who are typically wealthy Americans past 50, the trip in a caribou-skin suit on a dog sled is an age-defying passage in a land of disorienting beauty, where the sun does not set for months and nothing but a dreamy blue strip of sky distinguishes ice from cloud.

Why should the wealthy "own" the past?

Italy plummeted right past wealthy, liberal, Protestant Denmark, where women got birth control early.

Its luxury apartments, in the chic 8th arrondissement of Paris, are popular with the wealthy and famous; past guests include Leonardo DiCaprio, Madonna, Prince and Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich.

As she reaches self-knowledge, the handsome heir of a wealthy family sees past her humble garb to ask for her work-stained hand in marriage.