5 sentences with “wealthier”

The northern kingdom of Israel was larger, wealthier and more cosmopolitan.

In time, these larger and wealthier groups coalesced into forces that posed serious threats to the Roman frontiers.

The Spanish parliament pushed through laws formally separating church and state (for the first time in Spanish history) and redistributed land to the poor, taken from the huge estates of the wealthier nobles.

While the long-term economic pattern was that the wealthier sections of society tended to become even richer at the expense of the common people, there remained a significant "middle class" that enjoyed a relatively high standard of living.

Party members also differed: Whigs tended to be wealthier; they were prominent planters in the South and wealthy urbanites in the North, i.e. the beneficiaries of the market revolution. The Democrats presented themselves as defenders of the common people against the elite.