Now the world is rebalancing - power and wealth will become more evenly distributed across countries.
Meanwhile he has concentrated ever more power and wealth in the hands of his own extended family and clan.
The Argentine also was a military officer who feigned affection for the poor while expanding his power and wealth.
The loans-for-shares deals did much to determine the balance of power and wealth in the new Russian private sector.
But the underlying differences over how to share power and wealth, mostly from oil persist.
The final one is the gambler, motivated by greed and a desire to be associated with great power and wealth.
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"Henry VIII didn't like the power and wealth of this abbey so sent his men here to desecrate it, " she said.
Unfortunately Mugabe is becoming rather a symptomatic African leader, only interested in his own power and wealth and uncaring for his people.
It becomes rigid digging in its heels and resisting any change that would diminish the power and wealth of the controlling groups.
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With an eye to the style of their European counterparts, they built mansions on extensive grounds to show off their power and wealth.
Only under Putin, there is no communist ideology to justify repression, only the goal of maximizing the power and wealth of the ruling class.
In the last 200 years Coal, Oil and Nuclear has given energy to many worldwide and great power and wealth to only a few.
Skyscrapers have been the symbol of economic power and wealth since the ceremonial ribbon was cut on the Empire State Building in May 1931.
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It also means that Juba hogs the country's power and wealth.
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As early as 1979, after Cheung Kong had acquired colonial-era Hutchison, Li was supplanting the old taipans as a symbol of Hong Kong power and wealth.
Because the system depends on level, transparent markets to work well, whereas the growing power and wealth disparities it is generating pretty much guarantee the opposite.
Mr Saleh stood accused of amassing power and wealth for his immediate family, nimbly wielding oil revenues and foreign aid to perpetuate his 33-year-long hold on the state.
The cause of the attack was not jealousy of American power and wealth but a deep resentment of what is perceived as American bullying and arrogance in international affairs.
If this claim turns out to be true, a marriage of the numbers and desperation of the maras with the power and wealth of the drug mobs would be frightening.
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The biggest disappointment is the continuing power and wealth of the old system's elite, who have proved much better at running the capitalism they decried than the socialism they preached.
Its predictable propaganda machine, naturally, will try to put a spin on things to suit the government and to scare the masses and to conform to their power and wealth-obsessed agendas.
In the Middle East today, it is often boredom and peer pressure, and among the leaders especially the desire for sheer power and wealth, that entices young men into radical politics.
In the Middle East today, it is often boredom and peer pressure, and -- among the leaders especially -- the desire for sheer power and wealth, that entices young men into radical politics.
While I can't exactly tell you how the movie "Prometheus" ends, I can confidently predict an unhappy real world ending if companies like Facebook, Google and Apple continue to amass such unnatural power and wealth.
Addressing his congregation on August 15th, Dionigi Tettamanzi, the highly respected archbishop of Milan, did not refer to any specific individuals but said he regretted the way that in Italy the pursuit of individual power and wealth is so often put ahead of the common good.
Boredom and peer pressure and the love of personal power and wealth, and all the other mundane and often ugly personal drives that have a force that can exceed the most profound political or religious beliefs and for that reason have often built or broken empires.
Boredom and peer pressure and the love of personal power and wealth, and all the other mundane and often ugly personal drives that have a force that can exceed the most profound political or religious beliefs -- and for that reason have often built or broken empires.
Dotti dismisses the former prime minister's reaction to the Milan verdict - which Mr Berlusconi described as "intolerable judicial harassment" - saying that his "ostentatious lack of respect for the law and the presumption of impunity" were "simply the result of the excessive power and wealth of the Cavaliere".
At the top table, ex-communists used legal, semi-legal and illegal means to turn power into wealth, and then wealth into power.
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