"fortune" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Their great fortune derives from the fact that their conflict is with Israeli Jews, whose role in Western civilization loomed, and continues to loom, so large.
- Their fortune derives from SHV Holdings, a Utrecht-based energy and wholesale consumer goods behemoth with 1988 assets of $3.6 billion.
- Mr. Salinas is imprisoned in Mexico City on charges of financial wrongdoing and masterminding a rival's murder; he has repeatedly denied that his fortune derived in any way from the narcotics trade.
- Galatea was a big, powerfully-built brown mare bred in France by her owner Robert Sterling Clark, an American industrialist whose fortune derived from the Singer Sewing Machine company.
- Overgrown and semiderelict, the house was sold at auction in 1979 to Barry Trupin, whose fortune derived from truck leasing, for a reported price of $330,000.
- The Roussel family's fortunes derive from the Roussel Uclaf pharmaceutical corporation, most famous for the design of the abortifacient RU-486 (mifepristone).
- The Whitney and the Museum of Modern Art are led, respectively, by Leonard and Ronald O. Lauder, whose fortunes derive from Estee Lauder Companies.
- Hotung, whose fortune derives from international property and finance, comes from one of Hong Kong's leading families.
- His fortune derived from his successful practice in chancery and other London courts.
- His fortune derived from his two plantations in Suriname where he was born and where his father was in a high position within the Court of Justice.
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