Sentence examples for were amassed in from inspiring English sources

Considerable fortunes were amassed in Chile in the early 1800's, and wealthy Chileans, like the wealthy Frenchmen they strove to emulate, began investing in vineyards.

Egyptian antiquities had been arriving in Venice since at least the 13th century, but in the 17th and 18th centuries some major private collections were amassed in the city, only to be dispersed after the fall of the republic in 1797.

There is no limit on the total amount of money that can be amassed in the two PAC's.

The contentions are based on documents and evidence that have been amassed in litigation against the tobacco industry.

"It is an asset that must be amassed in abundant stockpiles and utilized with the utmost care.

Books and journals are amassed in strata so deep that they look like the floor's naturally occurring geological eructations.

In fact, judging from the scholarly work produced in Alexandria, it seems likely that the whole corpus of Greek literature was amassed in the library.

The collection was amassed in 2003 by Irene Albright, and is partly the by-product of her work as a fashion collector and stylist in the eighties and nineties.

What she never knew, she still insists, was that weapons were being amassed in the house, or that violent action was being planned.

Analysts say global private equity funds like Blackstone are hoping to tap the enormous pool of wealth now being amassed in China.

Its greatest treasure was amassed in the Winter Palace, where the German-born Catherine the Great assembled a private collection, a refuge known as the Hermitage.