If not quite a tale of rags to riches, the story of Salim's rise to stardom certainly comes close. |
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Most of the platinum stars today started out on the road from rags to riches with their own independent label. |
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Here, corruption has become the most effective short cut in the journey from rags to riches. |
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For five weeks they explore the riches of the chamber music repertoire and present more than 30 public concerts. |
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To dream you hear hens cackling foretells success in love, and an accumulation of riches by means of female relations. |
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While the workers and the middle class of the great cities perished in misery, Stinnes became the owner of fabulous riches. |
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Our knowledge of the riches of the glory of God will increase forever and ever, world without end. |
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This is considered a famous poem, and reflects a graceful attitude towards riches and power. |
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You have passed the test of compassion, and I will grant you wishes and riches and magic powers! |
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Local lords and trade guilds made great donations of riches to ornament the cathedral, most notably, its unrivalled stained-glass windows. |
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This, then, is not a rags to riches tale, but one of a treasure chest so scarcely concealed that the topsoil barely covered it. |
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The self-indulgent lifestyle of the celebrity nouveau riches is as far from her experience as it is from any wage slave in a tedious job. |
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It runs the gamut of art riches over the centuries, stretching to murals, miniatures and manuscripts. |
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Numerous human rights violations have been committed in the scramble for these riches. |
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Room after room of the Armoury reveals incredible riches, including the imperial crown, mace and sceptre of the Tsars. |
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It was my ticket to untold riches, until I discovered that like all the best ideas someone had already thought of it. |
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If the woodcutter finds the key and opens the door, he will win the hand of the king's daughter in marriage and all his riches. |
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The use to which the wealth is put, and Jahangir's almost flippant attitude toward his riches, activates the notion of the ignorant barbarian. |
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In the Coen brothers' Intolerable Cruelty she plays a gold-digger using pre-nuptial agreements to hopscotch her way to riches. |
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He has claimed each of us as his own and wants to shower us with all the abundant riches he has to offer. |
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Yet for all the riches the current stars are trousering, they don't seem to express much joy in the so-called beautiful game. |
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The screeching metal sounded like innocent angels shrieking and crying from being excommunicated from the riches and comforts of their heaven. |
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This proves the point that wealth is not as good as work, nor riches as good as earnings. |
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His status as a friend of royalty undoubtedly earned him great wealth, riches and national prominence. |
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Setting up your own business is one of the best ways to get started on the road to riches and you don't have to be a Richard Branson-type either. |
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Someone in your position is unlikely to have hundreds of thousands to invest, so the road to riches will be a long one. |
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A record number in the list made their riches from land and property, up five from the previous year. |
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He also needs the money, for the glamour and riches of, say, Formula One or even the upper echelons of bike racing, are beyond him. |
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The public saw this as a chance to join in the capitalist race for riches, but the scheme collapsed taking the savings of the gullible with it. |
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More than ever, it seems, we need proof that material riches can't buy love and contentment. |
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Imagine going out to dinner with a charming man who promises you riches and glory beyond your wildest dreams. |
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Materialistic types can turn the page because there are no riches awaiting the winner. |
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It does not bring riches in the immediate present, but it does bring wealth in the future. |
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Many frittered away their riches or became entangled in wealth-sapping legal disputes. |
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Niger Delta residents are among the poorest in Nigeria, despite the riches pumped from their soil. |
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Nevertheless, for all its riches Apocalypse Now was fundamentally flawed by its resolution. |
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He won a sizeable chunk of India, the land whose riches had triggered Europe's Age of Exploration. |
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This hypothesis contradicts the view that people fight to secure control over environmental riches. |
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Elsewhere in his team he has an abundance of footballing riches at his disposal. |
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The oligarchs, those Kremlin-connected magnates who once dazzled the world with their riches, are reeling. |
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Another movie was a comedy about a backstabbing, money-grubbing family positioning to collect its grandfather's riches after his death. |
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This unassuming film has reservoirs of riches that have transfixed me three times now. |
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A time of glory, gain and riches comes unexpectedly after all the monumental efforts you have made in the past. |
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Despite their riches, the inhabitants of Madhapura are unassuming and lead a simple lifestyle. |
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They hunger for the riches of our faith presented with directness, simplicity, and truth. |
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The season's riches also offer a chance to see favorite actors tackling very different roles in multiple movies. |
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You will discover riches within yourself that you cannot conceive of, acts of heroism that will take your breath away. |
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All that the most severe judges are willing to concede to Romanity is that Rome spread the riches of Hellenism and transmitted them down to us. |
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Everyone wants their child to succeed, but too many parents focus on future fame and riches. |
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Once under the wilderness area, Revett aims to spend 30 years hollowing out an untouched patch of mountain, and extracting its riches. |
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All the riches and good things of life are gone and she has no one to fall back on. |
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A chill wind of financial reality is blowing through football now that the riches provided by television companies are drying up. |
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Property development, of course, isn't a sure-fire road to riches, as Hong Kong Construction found out. |
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He brought death upon himself because, seeking riches, he became impoverished and ended his life miserably in lands far away. |
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Despite the occasional champion who amassed riches, most fighters came from extremely poor families, and they remained poor. |
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However, the nation's indigenous peoples have never tasted their share of Argentina's riches. |
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His people offered to accept him as their King and to lay all the riches of the land at his feet if only he would stop preaching. |
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Long after the kingdoms of southern Arabia disappeared, the fabled riches of the region live on in the popular imagination. |
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The colonial connection appears to be more likely a route to impoverishment than riches. |
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Those who best serve their country too often pine and decay, whilst pensioned miscreants and lazy sinecurists roll in riches. |
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His claims are backed by an unknown flow of riches, along with a rare supply of unadulterated grain and water. |
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So many riches, so many opportunities to astonish us, and yet Clarke insists on breaking off again and again to indulge in literary pastiche. |
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We are taught that if we work hard and pay our dues, we will be rewarded in riches and love from family and friends. |
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What at first seems to be nothing more than a contractual obligation thing is actually an embarrassment of riches. |
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Suddenly, the selectors who hardly knew where to turn earlier in the season have an embarrassment of riches. |
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Given the generosity with which people describe themselves, such Web sites are an embarrassment of riches. |
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He has come full bloom at the time Indian cricket has an embarrassment of riches. |
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From being an embarrassment up front, they have an embarrassment of riches. |
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In short, what we have here is an astonishing wealth and stylistic range of soundscapes, quite literally an embarrassment of riches. |
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He sees his father plow up the prairie, watches his parents' dreams of agricultural riches pulverized along with the dirt. |
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They have gulled municipalities around the world into letting them stage their pranks, and the result is celebrity and riches. |
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Athlete behavior is meant to be exemplary and virtuous and sustain the rags to riches myths of successful sports stars from humble origins. |
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They watched in wonder as bankers, industrialists and assorted spivs piled up more and more riches. |
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While Lakshmi is the goddess of riches, her elder sister is the deity of poverty, indigence, odium, reproach and ignominy. |
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Meanwhile Hoxsey struck oil in Texas and used his riches to promote his burgeoning clinic and finance his court battles. |
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Twenty feet high, the cataract drops its riches into the upper end of the pool, cloaked by hepatica and trailing vines. |
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The scams offer fabulous riches or the love of your life, but first the magha has to send a series of escalating fees and payments. |
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All the fabulous items and riches so earnestly sought and viciously competed for over the years, will be gone. |
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It is a peculiar folly, under these circumstances, for the rich to seek greater riches by selling weapons to the poor. |
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Chests of gold and jewels and riches appeared before him, glimmering in the darkness. |
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Many are restless, depressed, and encumbered with the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches. |
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Then, when you’re ready… burn your boats, plant your flag, stake your claim to the riches of El Dorado. |
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Her determination, which brought her riches, will see her through what lies ahead. |
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I can gaze at Mexico City which has pulled in the riches of Mexico's interior, both in people and customs. |
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Yet the only real hope for the Sahrawis may now be the foreign oil companies competing to exploit the riches off the Atlantic seaboard. |
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Or is it one of those juicily promising titles that holds out the prospect of bizarre riches only to offer mediocrity? |
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Solid, intelligent performances all round, and a very good start to a project that promises more riches and insights to come. |
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Common to all the entries is the author's delight in the riches of our surviving heritage. |
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They realised that land further away might also have riches in them that would make Rome even more wealthy. |
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Sign up to Gary Price's excellent ResourceShelf to look at the riches available to you beyond Google. |
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Meanwhile the Europeans continue to benefit from the riches of Africa while claiming to be providing aid. |
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Perhaps these countries realize that because they also have natural riches they will be the USA's next target. |
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This chapter has dealt exclusively with Durkheim's first masterpiece, but it has not done justice to all its riches. |
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Pages xx to xxii of the Prologue provide an overview of the wealth of riches to follow. |
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After some research, I see that one can sacrifice goats in order to gain riches or appease the gods. |
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These monasteries preserved the cultural riches of Greece and Rome, as well as the growing wisdom accumulated by the Church herself. |
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With the additional threat of armadas and independent looters, keeping the American riches flowing into Spain became a very complex problem. |
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Sports is producing more and more superstars as it becomes a route to riches. |
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I'm not someone who believes that working long hours is the route to riches. |
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Engineers working at the nano scale have a brand-new tool kit that's full of wonder and brimming with potential riches. |
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In time, both find their votaries deserting them to worship the god of riches, and so apply for readmission to the heavens. |
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America's riches are pulling people all along the continent's Hispanic horn on a great migration to the place they call El Norte. |
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In a book so prodigal of riches one finds, unbelievably, neither an index nor a glossary. |
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The mythological god of riches guards the fourth circle, which holds the prodigal and the greedy. |
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Not for gain or glory, not for riches or immortality, but because my God wills it and that makes it right. |
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Yes, this film where Bachchan plays a millionaire whose riches and jives are only matched by Irani, is actually a father-son tale. |
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The story of the uncompromising short-tempered legendary director is one of rags to riches. |
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Collins has no truck with the notion that his fledging career has a rags to riches plotline beloved of comic book fantasy. |
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Life steadily worsened, and though a few maintained quick riches in the short-term, most people labored more and more just to maintain short-term existence. |
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She still speaks Doric and recently she's even taken up playing the great Highland pipes in an effort to rediscover the riches of Scotland's indigenous music. |
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Lost art offers a parallel universe, with riches to match those in all of our museums today, and then some. |
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In his book, he tells his riches to rags story that led to him becoming a barista at the ubiquitous coffee chain. |
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These two antithetic characters are created with such riches of detail, so many nonstop inventions that, handled with Bradley's connoisseurship, become exultantly right. |
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Those riches did not disappear, as the vikings were well integrated in the European trade network. |
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If the grad goes on to fame and riches you can take credit for generously providing the book that made all of the difference. |
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It was such a rags to riches story which the brothers did on a shoestring. |
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Instead, I shall bask in all this glory and hope it brings me new found arrogance, snobbery and untold riches so I can retire to Pismo Beach and be a happy miser. |
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The former politicians offer a variety of reasons for idling their campaign riches instead of giving them away. |
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His skills have brought him adulation and riches beyond belief. |
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But though the conquests brought riches, they also brought grave problems. |
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About 2,500 years ago, the Indian prince Siddhartha Gautama left his palace and of his riches behind to a search for the cause of human suffering. |
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And to be sure, they read tales of quick riches and overnight fame. |
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He has achieved it without sponsorship, riches or public acclaim. |
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A limp-looking alamort called John Knox gazed from his cameo in the middle of bills with a generous, philantrhopic moue as if he and Jackie were conspiring together as men of riches both. |
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The Pais were an Indian race of demons, sometimes considered to represent the cattle-raiding indigenous Dravidians, who fought the invading Aryans for riches. |
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Though we were actually searching for coconut crabs, this encounter became a moment I will always remember amongst the other riches of this majestic island. |
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The rapeseed producers' co-op offers farmers not riches, says Starkebaum, but a way to mitigate risk, and to earn some extra money above the price of the crop. |
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Her riches were in the love her family held for her and she held for her family. |
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As a result, rumors of untold riches abound among the various bandit gangs that cruise the region in their custom-built battle cars, fighting and plundering trade caravans. |
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Gardna we'll live forever and be cursed with all the riches in the world! |
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Zynga rode its one big hit, Farmville, to IPO riches and then crashed as soon as the trend turned. |
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In Ireland, the name of Sean Quinn will be forever linked in the public mind as the ultimate cautionary tale of riches to rags. |
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Resembling the plot of one of his own novels, Dickens's life is a tale of rags to riches, complete with bankruptcy, prison, and forced child labour. |
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Nevertheless, the market continues to welcome a steady stream of fresh punters looking to beat a tracker and join me in the quest for stock market riches. |
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In an up-period, there is an embarrassment of riches, too much to absorb and consume, a feeling of plenitude that seems to extend into any foreseeable future. |
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The film, written by Stephen Beresford and directed by Matthew Warchus, offers an embarrassment of riches. |
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The whole board was swayed by the promises of gold, power and riches. |
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But it serves no public purpose to encourage plaintiffs to regard a successful libel action, risky though the process undoubtedly is, as a road to untaxed riches. |
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Being condemned on account of their riches to a life of idleness which is repugnant to human nature, the majority of them enjoy neither physical nor moral health. |
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Together they have added to their riches by investing in property. |
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Goldstein no doubt could have told gayer that he was no more likely to find riches in art than Breslin was in entertainment. |
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He told the assembly to gather all the riches they could to pay for this. |
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Are the Germans really going to skip off into the dusk, like the Italians did, and leave the Spanish to sweep up all the riches Europe has to offer? |
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It glorifies celebrities, extols riches and promotes glamour. |
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At the heart of Wyler's tale is his desperate lunge at fame and riches. |
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He holds it out in his hand to me as if he is offering the balm of Gilead or all the riches of Babylon or something precious and extravagant like that. |
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There are ambitious plans to revive the Mitchell Library by opening up its incomparable collections and interpreting its riches through digital displays and virtual tours. |
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He did so driven by passion rather than dreams of fortune and riches. |
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But whatever this is, it is not an example of riches earned by writing. |
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But it remains to be seen whether or not Khan will be able to resist the lure of riches for long enough to win his gold medal in three and a half years time. |
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We now have a nation where the fairy light is the most prominent cultural symbol, and where the quest for riches has become the simplest avenue of achievement. |
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The pietre dure technique spread as far as India during the seventeenth century thanks to Florentine stoneworkers lured to the Mogul court by the hope of riches. |
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Sixteen songs, and not a clunker amongst them, really is an embarrassment of riches and will surely bring this gifted singer songwriter the audience he deserves. |
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Human understanding comes in accepting this ongoing, unconcluded conversational array of riches as presenting a variety of different ways of understanding self and world. |
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As I prowl its gold-paved nooks and wynds, from bookie to bingo parlour, amusement arcade to Lotto shop, I sense fate has fingered me for imminent riches. |
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Where men of great wealth stoop to husbandry, it multiplieth riches exceedingly. |
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To this end, he crossed through the lands of caciques Coquera and Tumaco, defeating them easily and taking their riches of gold and pearls. |
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They returned to Venice in 1295, 24 years later, with many riches and treasures. |
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The capital was also filled with incredible amounts of riches and resources to spare. |
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The Spice trade had brought great riches to the Abbasid Caliphate, and even inspired famous legends such as that of Sinbad the Sailor. |
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This made Seville the best defended port to bring the riches from the Americas. |
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This foretaste of the riches of the East galvanized English interest in the region. |
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Though Raleigh never found El Dorado, he was convinced that there was some fantastic city whose riches could be discovered. |
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However, it was the riches of the real Jauja at the time of the Spanish conquest that created this myth. |
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Nikita and Maksim Stroganov spent twenty thousand rubles of their riches to outfit the army with the best weapons available. |
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While many hip hop stars boast about their lifestyles, their riches and their women, Arrested Development have stuck to their politics. |
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The other kind of having leads to mutual giving, to creating life, to riches of a nature quite unmonetary. |
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Her sports were such as carried riches of knowledge upon the stream of delight. |
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Enormous riches described by their pilot, an experienced Portuguese navigator hired by Raleigh, outweighed White's objections to the delay. |
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Raleigh and Elizabeth sought both immediate riches and a base for privateers to raid the Spanish treasure fleets. |
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The production of the Codex shows the riches of the north of England at this time. |
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For every story of rags to riches, there is another of riches to rags. |
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That they will get greater riches in hydrargyrum than nature giveth in gold. |
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The Queen and Raleigh intended that the venture should provide riches from the New World. |
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Peter Waldo of Lyon was a wealthy merchant who gave up his riches around 1175 after a religious experience and became a preacher. |
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The winning lottery numbers and foretold riches never arrived. |
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Man must be aware of his existence in the Universe and what he brings to it, in terms of riches, power and fame. |
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Political power, after all, is the only game in town that ensures unfettered access to the nation's oil riches. |
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Power and riches appear then to be, what they are, enormous and operose machines contrived to produce a few trifling convenencies to the body. |
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Some of the riches were probably acquired through the control of mining districts and the production of iron. |
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Some House members, too, reaped riches from lobbyist-bundlers. |
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In health, good air, pleasure, riches, I am resolved it can not be equalled by any region. |
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On August 24, 410, however, Alaric's troops entered Rome through the Salarian Gate, to plunder its riches in the sack of Rome. |
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want. |
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He inadvertently stumbles upon an ancient treasuremap detailing the location of buried riches dating back to the Qing Dynasty. |
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Then I hit the real world and in the next decade encountered precious little in the way of Twainesque romance or riches. |
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According to his theory, our left-brain oriented society has produced an abundance of riches. |
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He was famed for his penitential sermons, lambasting what he viewed as widespread immorality and attachment to material riches. |
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I can no longer seek fame or glory, nor can I help trying to get rid of my riches, which separate me from my fellow-creatures. |
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Two of Pizarro's men reported incredible riches, including gold and silver decorations around the chief's house. |
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They all admired to see the foresaid riches in such dearth of money as was herebefore. |
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Around that time many prospectors known as Vandemonians who had served time as convicts took to the mines and staked their ground for the promise of riches. |
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Pope Leo X received a monumental embassy from Portugal during his reign designed to draw attention to Portugal's newly acquired riches to all of Europe. |
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The riches from the Americas came through Castile which was one of the more dynamic, rich, and advanced territories in Europe in the 16th century. |
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We at time of year Do wound the bark, the skin of our fruit trees, Lest, being overproud in sap and blood, With too much riches it confound itself. |
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Charles was conscious of the fact that he had options to become emperor and needed to impose his authority over Castile to gain access to its riches for his imperial goals. |
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The star indicates much trouble for the native in whose chart it is matutine rising or setting, but if the aspect is matutine culmination Arcturus brings riches and honor. |
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After spying a raven haired beauty, who turns out to be Lillian, the lord's daughter, Eriik, the Viking Jarl, is determined to take more than Saxon riches back to his home. |
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These riches supported the establishment of new settlements along with the building of elegant churches and mansions as the area became one of the most important of New Spain. |
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The deceased's sons would receive only whatever property and riches their father had settled upon them and whatever additional lands their uncle had acquired. |
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Soon after Yermak and his initial band set out for Siberia, merchants and peasants followed in their wake, hoping to harness some of the fur riches that abounded in the land. |
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It's a tough ask for Dudders against Colin Lloyd and Phil Taylor, though punters might want to concentrate on the other two clashes for some riches. |
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Roger was in the library, trying to choose, from an embarrassment of riches, the ten of his father's books which he was to be permitted to take to the city. |
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These events served as evidence to convince the expedition that the wealth and power displayed at Tumbes were an example of the riches of the Peruvian territory. |
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A weakened political entity with a reduced economic and military capability and fabled riches would have then been more vulnerable to human predators. |
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Alone among men they covet with equal eagerness poverty and riches. |
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The Argies have an embarrassment of riches up front, with five forwards who'd walk into any team in the world, especially if Kevin Keegan was picking it. |
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For example, in femes riches, riche has to be in the feminine plural form. |
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