Ultra-rich

Increasing the electricity use by the world's poorest to cover the bare necessities won't really increase greenhouse gas emissions at all. What we have to do instead is to reduce, all the way down to what's strictly essential, the extraordinarily excessive and unnecessary use by the ultra-rich.

“Embossed Ratine"—another of this season's materials—is of such ultra-rich quality that its prohibitive price assures it of a permanently exclusive position in the realm of woolen fabrics.

Such ultra-rich environments allow the student to choose what he will study, when he will study it and how he will study it, and to what criteria of accomplishment he will aim.

There are ultra-rich people all over the world, and if individuals like Mallya have earned what they have, they can do what they want with their wealth.

There are dozens of ramen variations—from shoyu (soy sauce) ramen, to miso ramen, to tonkotsu (ultra-rich pork broth), to mazemen (just a little soup), to tsukemen (noodles and separate dipping sauce).

He savored a bite of the ultra-rich dessert for a few seconds.

The environment is, as Myers (2004, p. 100) puts it, an 'ultra-rich' topic that can enable all kinds of issues to be discussed, so 'local' may then be used as a device to contain the discussion.

But as for the Congress, I think the main reason a representative of working- or lower-middle-class Americans supports this kind of tax cut is that they hope to get campaign contributions from the ultra-rich.

As Brian Barry has pointed out, to reduce the wealth of the ultra-rich, the tax rate would have to be substantially higher than the income that wealth generates (Barry, 2005, p. 191).

We are endlessly fascinated with the strange ultra-rich.

What the ultra-rich want is to sustain and extend the economic system that put them where they are. The more they have to lose, the more creative their strategies become.