Economically affluent and politically stable countries of the OECD are well placed to meet the challenges.

They had been affluent before,

They had been affluent before,

Verily they have been heretofore affluent.

Verily they have been heretofore affluent.

The first tier comprises the affluent countries, notably the United States, European nations, Australia, and Japan with a combined population of around one billion and per capita incomes ranging from 79,000 (Luxembourg) to 16,000 (Republic of Korea). For the past 50 years, these affluent countries have dominated the global economy, producing four fifths of its economic output.

Indeed they had been affluent before this,

Indeed they had been affluent before this,

Some anthropologists call that the original affluent society.

Government research funds in affluent countries are also disproportionately targeted toward the diseases that kill these countries citizens, rather than toward diseases like malaria and diarrhea that are responsible for much greater loss of life.

If those who claim asylum in a nearby country were sent to a refugee camp, safe from persecution, and supported financially by aid from affluent countries, people smuggling and deaths in transit would be eliminated. Moreover, the incentive for economic migrants to seek asylum would be reduced, and affluent countries could fulfill their responsibility to accept more refugees from the camps, while maintaining control of their borders.

What is not so often mentioned, however, is the extent to which continuing global population growth would undermine the impact of whatever emission reductions affluent countries can be persuaded to make.

They're also fairly wealthy and affluent and all these other sorts of things.

When We seize their affluent ones with punishment, behold, they make entreaties to Us .

When We seize their affluent ones with punishment, behold, they make entreaties to Us .

New Caledonia, with its considerable economic assets, ranks among the more affluent Pacific nations.

Affluent countries have a responsibility to take refugees, and many of them can and should accept more than they do. But as the number of people seeking asylum has grown, it has become difficult for tribunals and courts to determine who is a refugee, as defined by the Convention, and who is a well coached migrant seeking a better life in a more affluent country.

But then when We seize the affluent among them, they will cry out for help.

But then when We seize the affluent among them, they will cry out for help.

Most of these gymnastics clubs are located in affluent suburban neighborhoods that can support the business.

I pastor a church in one of the most affluent areas of America a bunch of gated communities.

So that when We seize the affluent among them with affliction, they will begin to implore for help.

So that when We seize the affluent among them with affliction, they will begin to implore for help.

We sent no warner to any town, without its affluent saying, We reject what you are sent with.

We sent no warner to any town, without its affluent saying, We reject what you are sent with.

Until when We seize their affluent ones with punishment, at once they are crying to Allah for help.

Until when We seize their affluent ones with punishment, at once they are crying to Allah for help.

Noting the large numbers of women from developing countries and some countries with economies in transition who continue to venture forth to more affluent countries in search of a living for themselves and their families as a consequence of poverty, unemployment and other socio economic conditions, and acknowledging the duty of the countries of origin to try to create conditions that provide employment and economic security for their citizens,

One of the shocking realities in recent years is that America now has almost the lowest degree of social mobility of the high income countries. Children born poor are likely to remain poor children born into affluence are likely to be affluent adults.

Noting the large numbers of women from developing countries and some countries with economies in transition who continue to venture forth to more affluent countries in search of a living for themselves and their families as a consequence of poverty, unemployment and other socio economic conditions and acknowledging the duty of the countries of origin, in cooperation with the international community, to try to create conditions that provide employment and economic security for their citizens,

Noting the large numbers of women from developing countries and some countries with economies in transition who continue to venture forth to more affluent countries in search of a living for themselves and their families as a consequence of poverty, unemployment and other socio economic conditions, and acknowledging the duty of the countries of origin, in cooperation with the international community, to try to create conditions that provide employment and economic security for their citizens,

This year, the US lost the distinction of having the most affluent middle class to Canada, with several European countries not far behind. Once the generous public benefits in education, health care, and retirement are added to estimates of disposable family income in these countries, the relative position of the US middle class slips even further.

Trade in organs follows a clear, geographically linked pattern people from rich countries buy the organs, and people in poor countries sell them. In my research on organ trafficking, I have entered some of these shadow markets, where body parts from the poor, war victims, and prisoners are commodities, bought or stolen for transplant into affluent ill people.

Alibaba Chairman Jack Ma once said that eradicating poverty should be divided into three phases poverty relief, poverty eradication and becoming affluent.

If contributions to the fund were made in times of prosperity, Governments would not need to cut spending during less affluent periods.

Saying a word that is kind, and forgiving is better than charity that hurts. (Do not forget that) God is affluent and kind.

Saying a word that is kind, and forgiving is better than charity that hurts. (Do not forget that) God is affluent and kind.

Media fed fears that the disease could spread to affluent countries led to extraordinary precautions. In the United States, President Barack Obama asked Congress for 6.2 billion, including 2.4 billion to reduce the risk of the disease becoming established in America and set up 50 US Ebola treatment centers.

It is often pointed out that it is the affluent countries that have caused the problem, owing to their higher greenhouse gas emissions over the past two centuries. They continue to have the highest levels of per capita emissions, and they can reduce emissions with the least hardship.

Even more remarkable, however, are the social (and antisocial) grassroots demonstrations that are mushrooming in affluent Western societies. These protests have two major causes.

Leave it to Me to deal with the affluent ones who give the lie (to the Truth), and bear with them for a while.

Leave it to Me to deal with the affluent ones who give the lie (to the Truth), and bear with them for a while.

We did not send a warner to any town without its affluent ones saying, We indeed disbelieve in what you have been sent with.

We did not send a warner to any town without its affluent ones saying, We indeed disbelieve in what you have been sent with.

Most disease is correlated with poverty, but in the case of childhood cancers, the children who were dying seemed mostly to come from affluent families.