"fortune" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- They have called upon President Mobutu Sese Seko to step aside and to pay back the multibillion-dollar fortune amassed during his 25-year dictatorship.
- He has spent his entire life marrying a succession of heiresses and living off the fortunes amassed by other men.
- There is a downside to these instant fortunes amassed during the economic chaos.
- Mr. Suharto's possessions are an issue for his critics, who say the fortune amassed by the President and his six children amounts to $30 billion.
- His personal fortune, amassed as Governor, became part of the basis of the wealth of the Stewart family for generations.
- According to the New York Times, however, Hilton presided over "the dissipation of one of the greatest fortunes ever amassed by trade."
- To be sure, with private fortunes amassed in shipbuilding and lumbering, Maine emerged from the pre-Civil War building boom with a reputation for 19th-century decorative arts.
- The fine houses built during the Renaissance bear witness to the vast fortunes amassed by the pastel merchants.
- The Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fund is named for Mr. Sasakawa's father, who used a fortune amassed in motorboat racing to begin the foundation.
- Mr. Khodorkovsky and other tycoons are widely despised by many Russians, who see their quick fortunes, amassed in the economic chaos of the 1990's, as stolen, not earned.
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