1.   Its only hope of meeting targets was to purchase the right to pollute from less prosperous nations.

2.   But many educators and economists are increasingly skeptical of the notion that better schools mean a more prosperous nation.

3.   Maori are the most welfare-dependent group in this prosperous nation southeast of Australia.

4.   Of course, Japan is still a very prosperous nation.

5.   The Empire State has the population of Iraq and an economy that rivals those of the most prosperous European nations.

6.   The story begins at the Whitney in the turn-of-the-century Gilded Age, when a prosperous nation turned its face toward Europe.

7.   Then Dole laid out his own vision for a prosperous nation.

8.   This is the most prosperous nation at its most prosperous time.

9.   Throughout this vast and resource-rich land, people are furious with President Mobutu Sese Seko for driving what should be a prosperous nation into abject poverty.

10.   We were the most prosperous nation in the world.