Sentences with phrase «immense wealth there»

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On the economic plane, we have a society in which there are some who have immense wealth as against many who live in abject poverty.

One sees there their immense ambition to augment their temporal power, their sordid avarice in transfering great wealth unjustly and dishonestly to their families in order to enrich their nephews, mistresses, or ba - stards.

Dubbing him «$ ean Eldridge,» the NRCC called out the candidate for carpetbagging into the Hudson Valley district, buying a $ 2 million home there, and investing some of his immense wealth in banks, oil and tobacco companies he criticizes on the trail.

«There is probably no clearer example of how Mike Bloomberg uses his immense private wealth for public power in a fashion that is unprecedented not only at the city level but at the state and national levels, as well,» Douglas A. Muzzio, a professor at the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College, said, referring to the Doe Fund.

There are all kinds of people with immense amounts of wealth but some definitely have more than others.

In no particular order, there are the Leftist economists for whom global warming represents a supreme example of market failure (as well as a wonderful opportunity to suggest correctives), UN apparatchiks for whom global warming is the route to global governance, Third world dictators who see guilt over global warming as providing a convenient claim on aid (ie, the transfer of wealth from the poor in rich countries to the wealthy in poor countries), Environmental activists who love any issue that has the capacity to frighten the gullible into making hefty contributions to their numerous NGOs, Crony capitalists who see the immense sums being made available for «sustainable» energy, Government regulators for whom the control of a natural product of breathing is a dream come true, Newly minted billionaires who find the issue of «saving the planet» appropriately suitable to their grandiose pretensions, Politicians who can fasten on to CAGW as a signature issue where they can act as demagogues without fear of contradiction from reality or complaint from the purported beneficiaries of their actions.

But real estate is a sector of the economy that's created immense wealth without changing their workflows or processes for many decades, so there's a predisposed lack of urgency to upgrade the ol' tool belt.