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

They had been affluent before,

They had been affluent before,

Verily they have been heretofore affluent.

Verily they have been heretofore affluent.

Indeed they had been affluent before this,

Indeed they had been affluent before this,

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

We are genetically programmed to like sweet things, and when people become more affluent, they consume more sugar. The resulting increase in sugar prices has led producers to seek more land on which to grow sugarcane.

Some anthropologists call that the original affluent society.

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.

This system usually caters to children of the more affluent segments of the society and private schools are generally considered to be better than the government run schools.

Against that background, spending 200,000 to give a patient in an affluent country a relatively short period of extra life becomes more than financially dubious. It is morally wrong.

A fourth type of explanation is that people with higher intelligence in childhood tend to attain better educational qualifications, work in more professional jobs, have higher incomes, and live in more affluent areas. These variables are related to living longer, too.

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 .

One is the decline of the traditional working class and the growth of a more affluent middle class, underpinned by changes in occupation and housing. Trade union membership and public sector employment have fallen.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Enlarging our vision still more, it is not absurd to hope that putting the world s poor online would result in connections between them and more affluent people, leading to more assistance. Research shows that people are more likely to donate to a charity helping the hungry if they are given a photo and told the name and age of a girl like those the charity is aiding.

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.

For example, to ensure that no one who has worked for 30 or more years will live in poverty in old age, Social Security needs a higher minimum benefit for lower income workers, with more affluent seniors seeing less growth in benefits over time. Adopting the chained consumer price index for federal benefit calculations would ensure that benefits more accurately represent inflation, while slowing the rate of benefit growth for individuals.

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.

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.

And We sent not a warner Unto a town but the affluent thereof said ' verily in that wherewith ye have been sent we are disbelievers.

And We sent not a warner Unto a town but the affluent thereof said ' verily in that wherewith ye have been sent we are disbelievers.

For it has been thus whenever We sent a warner to any community. Its affluent ones said, We reject what you have been sent with.