Sentences with phrase «such concentration of wealth»

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Historically, these taxes have been seen as a way to break up «unhealthy» concentrations of family wealth, and as a backstop to tax gains missed by the income tax system, such as unrealized capital gains at death.

«With such great wealth concentration at the top of the economic ladder, and working people having a harder and harder time,» Gianaris said, «it seems fair to me that we should ask a little bit more on a temporary basis to make sure mass transit is working for everybody.»

Non-polar glacial ice holds a wealth of information about past changes in climate, the environment and especially atmospheric composition, such as variations in temperature, atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and emissions of natural aerosols or human - made pollutants... The glaciers therefore hold the memory of former climates and help to predict future environmental changes.

Beauty and wealth melded in such concentration that it would be tasteless were it not for the fact that most of us are jealous of such trappings.

Mega-galleries such as Hauser & Wirth have benefitted disproportionately from the growing concentration of wealth in the hands of a small sector of the global elite, giving them the resources to take on many of the functions that were previously the domain of curators, academics, and museums.