Its well-off "seasoned citizens" may have come for the golf and the retirement living, but somehow, they end up dying - at a higher-than-statistically probable rate.

Hence, the gentry was basically a class of well-off citizens that had grown from the wealthier or more powerful members of the peasantry.

That may seem irrational, even for well-off citizens of a wealthy country.

Most of the powerful and well-off citizens escaped from Vásárhely.

"These buildings were for affluent or well-off citizens," Ms. Jacobs said.

Many houses of well-off citizens from the 16th and 17th century are preserved.

The place is a rough-edged bar, but that doesn't stop the well-off citizens of Sarrià piling in, particularly for lunch on weekends.

Hence, nobility was basically a class of well-off citizens, not owners of other human beings.

The States of Europe must assist the least well-off citizens by providing them with free services.

Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has vowed to help workers and less well-off citizens cope with the pain.