Well-educated, Plater was brought up to appreciate the efforts of Tadeusz Kościuszko, and the Prince Józef Poniatowski.

Well-educated, with an organisational ability, business acumen, focus on detail and diplomatic skills that surpassed even Carte's, Lenoir gradually became intensely involved in all of his business affairs.

Well-educated and well-to-do, McCombs could be impatient with working people, tending to represent their best interests and not necessarily their opinions.

Well-educated migrants from around the country moved to the far suburbs.

Rupert had invested in the stock market and by the early 1890s was extremely wealthy.

The Aztecs are both fiercely expansionistic and generally extremely wealthy, for example.

Nevertheless, Petro managed to improve his status by marrying the extremely wealthy Tertulla, whose fortune guaranteed the upwards mobility of Petro's son Titus Flavius Sabinus I, Domitian's grandfather.

He did pay Tolkien, and he was responsible for making not only Tolkien but Ballantine Books extremely wealthy.

By 1914, Hoover was an extremely wealthy man, with an estimated personal fortune of $ 4m He was once quoted as saying " If a man has not made a million dollars by the time he is forty, he is not worth much ".

The following year, Henry disinherited the sisters of Isabelle of Gloucester, contrary to legal custom, and betrothed John to the now extremely wealthy Isabelle.

Illumination or decoration is minimal in many examples, often restricted to decorated capital letters at the start of psalms and other prayers, but books made for wealthy patrons may be extremely lavish, with full-page miniatures.

" Bernie Sanders ( I-VT ) opined in a 2010 The Nation article that an " upper-crust of extremely wealthy families are hell-bent on destroying the democratic vision of a strong middle-class which has made the United States the envy of the world.

In the political jargon and propaganda of Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany and the Communist International, western democratic states were referred to as " plutocracies ", with the implication being that a small number of extremely wealthy individuals were controlling the countries and holding them in ransom.

The reason for barring Indian ships from entering the wealthy Arabian port cities was to protect and hide the exploitative trade practices of the Somali and Arab merchants in the extremely lucrative ancient Red Sea-Mediterranean Sea commerce.

He was extremely wealthy, well-mannered and liked by his peers ; he was also considered a man capable of firm action.

Stephen's second son, William, was married to the extremely wealthy heiress Isabel de Warenne.

In America, however, where there is no aristocracy or royalty, the Upper Class status belongs to the extremely wealthy, the so-called ' super-rich ', though there is some tendency even in America for those with old family wealth to look down on those who have earned their money in business.

These places became extremely wealthy points of transit on what became known as the Silk Road between China and Europe.

Because of this trade on what became known as the Silk Route, Bukhoro and Samarqand eventually became extremely wealthy cities, and at times Mawarannahr was one of the most influential and powerful Persian provinces of antiquity.

In the Middle-Ages and the Renaissance, Venice was a major centre for commerce and trade, as it controlled a vast sea-empire, and became an extremely wealthy European city, a leader in political and economic affairs and a centre for trade and commerce.

The land they ruled over was extremely wealthy with a huge slave-based economy according to academic Yitzhak Nakash:

Eventually, General Tilney acquiesces, because Eleanor has become engaged to a wealthy and titled man ; and he discovers that the Morlands, while not extremely rich, are far from destitute.

Spoiled heiress Ellen " Ellie " Andrews ( Claudette Colbert ) marries fortune-hunter " King " Westley ( Jameson Thomas ) against the wishes of her extremely wealthy father ( Walter Connolly ) who has the marriage annulled.

Isabella remained extremely wealthy ; despite being required to surrender most of her lands after losing power, in 1331 she was reassigned a yearly income of £ 3000, which increased to £ 4000 by 1337.

He gained sufficient prestige from his naval exploits to be named the official Champion of Queen Elizabeth I. Clifford became extremely wealthy through his buccaneering, but lost most of his money gambling on horse races.

This suggests that Cornelius did not come from an extremely wealthy family and thus was not given a sophisticated education as a child.

Nevertheless, Petro managed to improve his status by marrying the extremely wealthy Tertulla, whose fortune guaranteed the upwards mobility of Petro's son Titus Flavius Sabinus I, Titus's grandfather.

Gomez was depicted as extremely wealthy, through inheritance and extensive investments, but he seemed to have little regard for money.

After Joe turns down several unsuitable " candidates ", Mr. Jordan takes him to see the body of a crooked, extremely wealthy banker-investor named Bruce Farnsworth.

Svetlanov was also an extremely fine pianist, two notable recordings being Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Trio No. 2 in D minor, and a disc of Nikolai Medtner's piano music.

The Republican party was not lacking in humanity, but it permitted its extremely partisan leadership to make it appear devoid of any consideration for people in trouble.

It's extremely accurate for an auto, and the test rifle I tried was completely trouble-free in functioning.

Metrically, Thomas's verse was extremely conventional, as was, incidentally, the verse of that other tragic enrage, Hart Crane.

Their singing was well-balanced, clear and, within obvious limitations, extremely pleasing.

To help him on this religious aspect of primitive jazz he had `` Big '' Miller, as a preacher-singer and Hannah Dean, Gospel-singer, while Oscar Brown Jr., an extremely talented young man, did a slave auctioneer's call, a field-hands' work song, and a beautifully sung Negro lullaby, `` Brown Baby '', which was one of the truly moving moments of the festival.

At extremely rare intervals the thermometer has fallen below zero (- 18 ° C ), as was the case in the remarkable cold wave of the 12th-13 February 1899, when an absolute minimum of-17 ° F (- 29 ° C ) was registered at Valley Head.

It was an extremely important post for American exploration of the continent and was influential in establishing American claims to the land.

He was extremely skeptical of Peter Bartholomew's discovery in Antioch of the Holy Lance, especially because he knew such a relic already existed in Constantinople ; however, he was willing to let the Crusader army believe it was real if it raised their morale.

The innovative aspect of the invention of the bow and arrow was the amount of power delivered to an extremely small area by the arrow.

The characters and lands created by the children had newspapers, magazines and chronicles which were written in extremely tiny books, with writing so small it was difficult to read without a magnifying glass.

In Ireland, Shane Butler said that AA “ looks like it couldn ’ t survive as there ’ s no leadership or top-level telling local cumanns what to do, but it has worked and proved itself extremely robust .” Butler attributed this to " AA ’ s ' inverted pyramid ' style of governance has helped it to avoid many of the pitfalls that political and religious institutions have encountered since it was established here in 1946.

For a period after World War I, Steiner was extremely active and well known in Germany, in part because he lectured widely proposing social reforms.

The 2, 4, 5-T used to produce Agent Orange was later discovered to be contaminated with 2, 3, 7, 8-tetrachlorodibenzodioxin ( TCDD ), an extremely toxic dioxin compound.

Common among the mislabeled works are all of the reasons identified for misattributing Cuyp ’ s works: the lack of biography and chronology of his works made it difficult to discern when paintings were created ( making it difficult to pinpoint an artist ); contentious signatures added to historians ’ confusion as to who actually painted the works ; and the collaborations and influences by different painters makes it hard to justify that a painting is genuinely that of Aelbert Cuyp ; and finally, accurate identification is made extremely difficult by the fact that this same style was copied ( rather accurately ) by his predecessor.

By all accounts, AMOS was extremely fast among interpreted languages.

This portability feature, however, requires a portable television, which was extremely rare in the early 1980s.

This bodyguard function was often executed by the leader's most loyal warriors, and was extremely effective throughout most of early human history, leading assassins to attempt stealthy means, such as poison ( which risk was answered by having another person taste the leader's food first ).

Jensen was denied reprints of his work by his publisher and was not permitted to reply in response to letters of criticism — both extremely unusual policies for their day.