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It was Berezovsky who brought Vladimir Putin to Yeltsin’s attention, anticipating that the diminutive ex-KGB officer was the ideal candidate to protect the Yeltsin family’s riches – and Berezovsky’s own wealth – once Yeltsin retired.
The echoes of the Iraqi quake are being felt in every Arab capital, including those that put their faith in oil riches to protect them from popular discontent.
The challenge of creating jobs for Saudis may seem like a problem of riches.
Some developing countries, most notably Brazil, have discovered huge potential offshore riches.
With important reserves near populated areas, governments will need to temper their enthusiasm and think about the balance between risks and riches.
In trying to decipher Asia’s diplomatic future, Europeans are confronted, so to speak, with an “embarrassment of riches.”
In short, the riches, jobs, and development that would flow to all countries in the region from responsible energy exploitation may well be blocked by the insistence of each on getting what it regards as its fair share and denying access to its enemies.
Beyond personal riches, Putin hopes to preserve the paternalistic ruling system and top-down power structure that he has built up over the past two decades.
Their personal interests, and riches, are too dependent on maintaining the status quo.
But how, then, can one explain the fact that almost all wealthy countries – except those that owe their riches to natural resources alone – are democratic?
Although he insists that his riches consist not of money and assets, but of the trust of his people, few Russians doubt that he is one of the world’s wealthiest men.
Borrowers are lured into unsuitable mortgages; firms are stripped of their assets; accountants mislead investors; financial advisers spin narratives of riches from nowhere; and the media promote extravagant claims.
Russia, despite Siberia’s massive oil and gas riches, isn’t even investing enough to support healthy growth in its energy industries, much less human development in the country’s impoverished areas (including hapless Siberia).
Some commentators describe the burden in even more brutal terms, saying that the current generation is essentially colonizing the future, as they, like many European colonizers in the past, strip the world of its riches and leave a wasteland for those they colonized.
We are free, but what are we to do with this freedom except dream of riches?
Trump’s adoration of Russia – or, more accurately, Russian riches – was apparent well before Americans went to the polls, as was his habit of surrounding himself with likeminded advisers.
Modi and the BJP benefited from this, too, not least in generous funding from the capitalist nouveaux riches.
But in the digital age, the world must be much more environmentally aware when tapping the deep-ocean mineral riches.
Next, we must demonstrate to our German friends that current EU policies fuel Germany’s wealth inequality, adding to the riches of the 0.1% and to the difficulties of the majority.
A significant share of these nouveaux riches have acquired their wealth by taking advantage of loopholes in the governance system.
But riches alone do not make a strategic actor.
But wildcat miners are hardly the only players scrambling for Amazonian riches.
'If you love your offspring, then you, as a kind father, will desire not only riches, luxury, and honours for your child, but will desire his salvation, his spiritual advancement by the light of truth.
As though perched on a lofty promontory, he was able to judge, and, so to speak, overlooked extreme poverty on the one hand and that life of comfort which he still called riches on the other.
This was the only son of the famous Jew, celebrated for the riches that he had acquired by lending money to Kings to make war on the common people.
You would have resigned yourself to enjoying the happiness of the rest of the world: esteem, riches, high rank ...But, dear Mathilde, your coming to Besancon, if it is suspected, is going to be a mortal blow to M. de La Mole, and that is what I will never forgive myself.
By spending money freely, and by using and abusing the reputation of her aunt, well known for her piety and riches, Madame de Renal obtained permission to see him twice daily.
Then turning to Don Quixote and the travellers he went on to say, "That body, sirs, on which you are looking with compassionate eyes, was the abode of a soul on which Heaven bestowed a vast share of its riches.
"I will lay a wager," said Don Quixote, "that the same bachelor or beneficiary is a greater friend of Camacho's than of Basilio's, and that he is better at satire than at vespers; he has introduced the accomplishments of Basilio and the riches of Camacho very neatly into the dance."
And I say once more, if your ladyship does not like to give me the island because I'm a fool, like a wise man I will take care to give myself no trouble about it; I have heard say that 'behind the cross there's the devil,' and that 'all that glitters is not gold,' and that from among the oxen, and the ploughs, and the yokes, Wamba the husbandman was taken to be made King of Spain, and from among brocades, and pleasures, and riches, Roderick was taken to be devoured by adders, if the verses of the old ballads don't lie.""To be sure they don't lie!" exclaimed Dona Rodriguez, the duenna, who was one of the listeners.
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