Wealth in example sentence

When King Henry of England died, he had 18,000 things in his house, but that was the entire wealth of England, so ... (Laughter) And with that entire wealth of England, King Henry could not buy any antibiotics, he could not buy refrigeration, he could not buy a trip of a thousand miles, whereas this rickshaw wallah in India could save up and buy antibiotics and he could buy refrigeration.

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And in our modern country, the role of logic and reason no longer includes mediating between wealth and power the way it once did.

The Sargasso Sea, for example, is not a sea bounded by coastlines, but it is bounded by oceanic currents that contain and envelope this wealth of sargassum that grows and aggregates there.

But what makes the Ross Sea important is the vast sea of pack ice that in the spring and summer provides a wealth of phytoplankton and krill that supports what, till recently, has been a virtually intact near-shore ecosystem.

Hometown security means creating wealth here at home, instead of destroying it overseas.

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