Fortunes

But then fortunes rapidly diverged, with a few Western industrialized countries quickly achieving political and economic dominance worldwide.

But, rather than focusing on the government s weaknesses energy, Europe, education, and family policy they bet their political fortunes on social justice.

It's when people's fortunes are correlated.

Chávez is giving away oil to Caribbean island nations and Cuba, and buying off Argentine debt to help President Nestor Kirchner s political fortunes.

Western fortunes are rising, slowly but surely.

During World War II, for example, political support for great fortunes diminished and the government sharply increased taxes on capital gains, dividends, and high incomes in general.

Otherwise, financial destabilization will threaten the fortunes of the very rich.

Restore our fortunes again, Yahweh, like the streams in the Negev.

But there is no doubt that the image of Jonathan as a political underdog, harried by bad guys within and outside his party, played a role in improving the PDP s fortunes.

It's the downside correlation of their fortunes that will become more and more possible.

Don t worry, Russia s oligarchs are not starving, but the fortunes of many of them have collapsed.

All that is left is to restore the fortunes of England s national football and cricket teams.

Also, Judah, there is a harvest appointed for you, when I restore the fortunes of my people.

There have been successes as well as setbacks in a year of mixed fortunes for the Organization.

And for many of us, our fortunes do indeed lie at the bottom of the pyramid. Thank you.

Who they are will have a major impact on the fortunes and prospects of one sixth of humanity.

Companies are the makers of their fortunes, and like all of us, they are utterly exposed to serendipity.

For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,

Indeed, the US is seen as practically complicit in inciting a monumental reversal of Islam s fortunes, the Shia revival.

But a large reversal in the fortunes of rich and poor countries seems neither economically likely, nor politically feasible.

Many Saudis sense a wasted opportunity despite sitting atop one of history s most liquid fortunes, the country has failed to become an advanced economy. And Saudi Arabia s large middle class is likely to respond to diminishing prosperity by calling for a more representative political system.

Now, in the latest plot turn in the Grand Guignol theater that Australian politics has become, could the political execution of Gillard by her panicky colleagues, and the resurrection of Rudd, lead to a revival in the fortunes of the world s oldest labor party?

As Ukraine s European prospects diminish, the economy and thus the oligarchs fortunes will be exposed to the Russian siloviki s untender mercies.

As a result, Chinese may operate family farms, own homes and businesses, control their educational choices, patent inventions, and amass fortunes.

He has both money the government s budget and the oligarchs fortunes and the coercive power of the state firmly in his hand.

But a matching omission is that prompted by our societies increasing political unsustainability, not because of the immediate financial problems like those afflicting Europe and threatening the world, but because the modern media have made visible to all the disparities in the fortunes of the rich and the poor.

Philanthropists like Mo Ibrahim and George Soros or Bill Gates and Warren Buffett can use their fortunes to make the world a better place.

Many Saudis sense a wasted opportunity despite sitting atop one of history s most liquid fortunes, the country has failed to become an advanced economy.

With the subsequent oil boom, one would have expected the fortunes of Chadians and Cameroonians to improve at the individual, local, and national levels.

Some of them righteous , and some of them short of that . And We tested them with fortunes and misfortunes , so that they may return .

Some of them righteous , and some of them short of that . And We tested them with fortunes and misfortunes , so that they may return .

And among the Desert Arabs are those who consider their contribution to be a fine . And they wait for a reversal of your fortunes .

Alas, if they are allowed to run the show, Ukraine might face more redistribution of fortunes than cleansing of corruption, letting the revolutionary public down.

In 1974, the touted Conservative Liberal Democrat coalition never materialized, as the Liberal Democrats were wary of hitching their fortunes to an unpopular and discredited politician.

The great nineteenth and early twentieth century financiers, men like J.P. Morgan, Henry Frick, and Andrew Mellon, spent a large part of their fortunes on art.

Successful people, according to Carnegie, should retire from business while they still retain those talents and devote their remaining years to spending their fortunes on philanthropy.

And all Chinese are gasping in the same polluted air. But at least the Han Chinese can feel pride in the revival of their national fortunes.

In Libya, the fortunes of Saif al Islam and Muatasim have waxed and waned as Qaddafi enforces his authority to prevent the emergence of a challenger.

Indeed, no private equity fortunes were made over the past generation without investing in or trading with the prosperous North Atlantic industrial core of the world economy.

The strategic vision of a bank shaping the economic fortunes of a country, or the whole world, is as flawed as was the idea of central economic planning.

Through their voices, Bulaq portrays their collective struggle against eviction and social marginalisation, whose destiny seems to be strictly intertwined with the hesitant fortunes of the Egyptian Spring..

Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When Yahweh restores the fortunes of his people, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

He started out in the importing business, but made his and his family's fortune (which was one of the largest fortunes of the 19th century) in mining and smelting.

Ultimately, greater convergence in the post crisis global economy appears inevitable. But a large reversal in the fortunes of rich and poor countries seems neither economically likely, nor politically feasible.