Sentences with phrase «eventually became wealthy»

She was raised as one of six children in a middle - class family that eventually became wealthy, with a powerful female energy (her mother was a well - known and highly respected political figure in Nigeria).

Her father began life in the UK as a Labour - supporting mill worker, but eventually became the wealthy owner of a beds and mattresses business, and an enthusiastic Tory.

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It may be hoped that, if trade were to flow more freely with North Korea, Dandong could eventually become the next Shenzen, which borders Hong Kong and is now one of the country's wealthiest cities.

He was not the first communist, but would eventually become the most influential, especially after he joined forces with Frederick Engels, the smart and wealthy son of a German industrialist.

Zemurray started out as a fruit peddler on the docks of Mobile, Alabama, and — through that classic combination of tenacity and instinct — eventually became the head of United Fruit, one of the wealthiest and most influential companies in American history.

Scale makes a difference, and in the context of a true global emergency transition, domestic reductions within wealthy countries, even difficult reductions, would become extremely difficult to pass up as the pressures of stringency increase and mitigation opportunities in the South become as costly as those at home, as they eventually would under any even plausibly adequate target.

In what appears contradictory, Lomborg then advocates for investments in green energy technologies, ``... At the same time, wealthy Western nations must step up investments into research and development in green energy technologies to ensure that cleaner energy eventually becomes so cheap that everyone will want it.»

If you are able to do that consistently in major league baseball, with the occasional flash of power, odds are you'll become very wealthy and eventually be enshrined at Cooperstown.

Originally named «Gibbs Station,» after Barnett Gibbs (who eventually became one of Texas» first lieutenant governors), the town was renamed in 1892 for George Coppell, wealthy financier from England who came to the United States in the 1880s and was reportedly heavily involved with the final construction of the local railroad line.