Sentences with phrase «became symbols of wealth»

The dogs were presented to the wives as gifts, and they rapidly became symbols of wealth in the island nation.

Because the ships of Tarshish carried such great riches, they became symbols of wealth, power, and pride.»

As the middle class grows, which we all welcome and support, in many nations items like ivory or rhinoceros horn become symbols of wealth and social status.

How has wasting electricity become a symbol of wealth?

Soon, France and England had jumped onto the area rug bandwagon, and custom - made rugs soon become a symbol of wealth and prestige throughout Europe.

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The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

I think that this premium might end up becoming further enticing to a new or unintended target of Chinese consumers that enjoys making large ticket purchases at the aim of being a status symbol or «showing off» their wealth.

Formula - feeding had become a state symbol of wealth, and physicians were supporting that formula - feeding was superior to breastfeeding.

Instead of sentient creatures, these animals have become novelties or a symbol of wealth and status.