His battles with BP have left him with a considerable fortune and antipathy for the company.
What Bloomberg does with his considerable fortune as a private businessman is, quite literally, his own business.
In 1770 he went to New York City, entering the countinghouse of a merchant uncle; he returned to Scotland with a considerable fortune in 1783.
The deaths of his father and elder brother while he was still a young man provided Harvey with a considerable fortune, much of which he squandered gambling in London.
He had tried to add to his considerable fortune with various business schemes — the export of Russian sculptures, an attempt to buy GUM, the huge shopping complex across Red Square from the Kremlin — all of which failed.
By the 1600s, Alexandre Dumas records in his Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine (posthumously published in 1873), an Auvergnat named Simon was to be found making "a most considerable fortune with frogs, sent to him from his region, which he fattened and then sold to the very finest restaurants in Paris, where this foodstuff was very much in fashion".
Her role in the arts is a unique one, because she combines the skills of a trained singer with the resources of a considerable fortune.
Perhaps what had snuffed out the flame of Mort Feather's wild and minor genius was not the fact that Conn had sold out their partnership, and their possible legal claim to a considerable fortune, but that, with a stroke of his pen, he had wiped out the history of a blessing, refuted — to make a balloon payment — the lone, certifiable miracle of Morty Feather's life: his friendship with Artie Conn.
Associates say Mr. Clancy's considerable fortune has attracted people with a host of causes and offbeat investment opportunities.
James Martin, a British technology expert, author and prognosticator who viewed mankind's onrushing future with alarm and excitement and used his considerable fortune to address his concerns, died on June 24 near his home in Bermuda.
They also dropped the melodrama and attracted a wide audience with the social comedies of Tom Robertson, making a considerable fortune in the process.
