Their wealth and influence initially derived from the textile trade guided by the guild of the Arte della Lana.

Their letters and journals contain a wealth of information about the island and are preserved at Harvard University.

Their attitude, coupled with the wealth garnered by many of the sophists, eventually led to popular resentment against sophist practitioners and the ideas and writings associated with sophism.

Their wealth was derived from mining the metals abundant in the area of Sardinia and Tuscany and extracting and exporting the ores.

Their countries were now occupied by the Soviet Union, and intense pressure and intimidation had been put on anyone with a position of privilege or wealth before 1939.

Their wealth of the states came from controlling the Trans-Saharan trade routes across the desert, especially the slave trade with the Islamic world.

Their climb to wealth and prominence was a heady one: in fifteenth-century Sussex they were described as ' yeomen ', but within a generation they were already among the first rank of Sussex gentry.

Their wealth funded the rebuilding of the nave of the parish church in 1515-30, to create the large parish church, often referred to as the " Cathedral of the Cotswolds ".

Their wealth consisted mainly of valuable estates of livestock.

Their wealth was equal, except for one thing: the bull Finnbhennach, who was born into Medb's herd, but thought it was beneath his dignity to be owned by a woman and transferred himself into Ailill's ownership.

Their wealth derives from both the chance discovery of pilac, a safe death-immunity drug and googoo, a fungal copier and regenerator of human tissue.

Their gardens epitomize monarch and ' man ' dominating and manipulating nature to show his authority, wealth, and power.

Their increasing wealth and independence led to a corresponding shift in power away from the central royal court to the regional nomarchs.

Their new wealth allowed the King's Men to overcome major adversity: when the Globe Theatre burned down in 1613 ( see below ), the company could afford an expensive rebuild, replacing the vulnerable thatch roof with tile.

Their wealth and competitive advantage reside in the human capital of their employees and the intellectual property they produce.

Their wealth of land expanded two years later when the manor of Aston was bestowed upon them.

Their practice of storing relatively great wealth in burial kurgans was probably a cultural influence from the more ancient civilizations of the Fertile Crescent to the south.

Their relative wealth comes from the favorable climate of the area and successful agricultural methods, which include extensive irrigation systems and continuous fertilization practiced for thousands of years.

Their name derives from an Old English word meaning ' wealth ', which has been applied to these coins since the seventeenth century, based on interpretations of the law-code of King Ethelbert of Kent and Beowulf.

Their government is based on a quasi-democratic oligarchy model, but in practice their leader — the so-called Grand Merchant — is chosen on the basis of wealth accumulated and the potential to add more wealth to the National Holdings.

Their work, rarely considered to rise above mediocrity by scholars before the 1970s, is now thought to provide a wealth of insight into the literate culture of London during the Lancastrian regime.

Their claim was that the Act favored people with “ unearned ” wealth, people who already had it, over people with “ earned ” additional income, usually with a law practice on the side.

Their original London house was on Millbank but, after the family had developed their Mayfair estates, they moved to Park Lane to build a house worthy of their vast wealth, status, and influence in the 19th century.

Their kind created an American culture superior to any in the world, an industrial and technological culture which penetrated Russia as it did almost every corner of the earth without a nickel from the Federal treasury or a single governmental specialist to contrive directives or program a series of consultations of interested agencies.

Their two boys were `` well adjusted '' and, like their parents, always did the right thing at the right time and damn the consequences.

Their fighting was tense and they did not retreat when disadvantaged by an advancing opposing force and preferred death over defeat.

Their radar did not work, aviation was virtually non-existent and communications were not fully operational.

Their culture did not, however, reach very far into the countryside.

Their end-of-world visions did not come true.

Their interest was only in gaining control of New Orleans and its environs ; they did not anticipate the much larger purchase that would follow.

Their theories also had several important problems, and the replacement of mercantilism did not come until Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations in 1776.

Their credit card failed to authorize, and after being told the agency did not accept personal cheques, the pair left to withdraw cash.

Their " IP Switching " technology, which was defined only to work over ATM, did not achieve market dominance.

Their point is to say that though the implications of an Axis victory, in particular a German victory, would be horrible, that this did not justify Allied atrocities.

Their follow-up single, " Once Upon A Time ", did not chart in Germany.

Their troops fight from chariots, as did the Greeks in the Trojan War.

Their results reveal that Paranthropus boisei contrary to previous theories, did not eat nuts but dined more heavily on C4 plants than any other human ancestor or human relative studied to date.

Their ceaseless infighting, repressed during the pontificate of Calixtus II, broke out again, and Honorius found he did not have the resources to suppress the Pierleoni, nor the authority to rein in the Frangipani.

Their relationship was difficult, but eventually they did reach a certain understanding.

Their line was anchored by defensive ends Ross Browner and Eddie Edwards, who did a great job stopping the run.

Their first album, Talking Heads: 77, which did not contain the earlier single, was released soon thereafter.

Their efforts ensured that the Devil and his minions did not carry off the grain from local failed crops down to hell.

Their approach pictures did, however, photograph about 20 percent of the planet's surface, showing the dark features long seen from Earth, but none of the canals mistakenly observed by ground-based astronomers.

Their conclusions about the empirical proof of DID were echoed by a second group, who still believed the diagnosis existed, but while the knowledge to date did not justify DID as a separate diagnosis, it also did not disprove its existence.

Their review of several studies shows that abstinence-only programs did not reduce the likelihood of pregnancy of women who participated in the programs, but rather increased it.

Their different political leanings did not thwart their friendship.