Sentences with phrase «growing up middle»

Growing up middle - class, well - educated at this point in history is pretty much the golden card of all golden cards in the history of human life on this planet.

Fink, who earned US$ 23.6 million last year, grew up middle - class in Los Angeles.

«In some way, L.A. respects the young guy that's out there just trying to make it happen, but in some ways, they disrespect that too,» says Kalanick, who'd grown up middle class in Los Angeles's San Fernando Valley, close enough to people like Ovitz to want what they had and also to hate them for it.

Kimbrell: I grew up the middle child with an older and younger brother; we were all active and athletic as youngsters and always seemed to have a house / yard full of the local neighborhood kids around.

«What we need to be doing is throwing open the doors for everybody willing to work and achieve their education,» Mrs. Clinton said, who noted that she grew up middle - class.

The book is filled with extraordinary insight about the values hip hop culture promotes, what it is like to grow up middle class and black in America and how pernicious the hip hop values are for most young, black people.

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He grew up in the working - class city of Fitchburg, in central Massachusetts, the middle son of five kids.

Mona grew up in the states and moved to the Middle East with her family when she was 17.

Along the upward journey to middle - class status, a growing number of people around the world are working up quite a voracious appetite.

The number of middle - class thieves grew this year, too, as those hit hard by the recession tried to keep up with the Joneses.

«Diary of a Wimpy Kid» best - selling author Jeff Kinney talks about the tenth installment in the middle - schooler's book series, brick and mortar book - selling and the global phenomenon of growing up a wimpy kid.

Steve Jobs grew up in an average, middle - class household.

In the emerging world, many consumers in the rising middle class tap Samsung for their first smart device and trade up into higher - end products as their disposable income grows.

She grew up poor on New York's Lower East Side, the middle child of a single mother who washed and ironed clothes for money.

Systrom grew up in a small town in Massachusetts and first dabbled in computer programming while in middle school.

Growing up in a middle - class family in Manhattan, Powers had the opportunity to attend Hunter College High School, a prestigious public school that counts Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan and Hamilton's Lin - Manuel Miranda as among its illustrious alumni.

You need to pay attention to the growing middle class in the Asia - Pacific region, which is estimated to make up 85 percent of the growth in the global middle class by 2030.

The Secret Life of the Grown - Up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle - Aged Mind (Viking) is a roundup of the most recent science on how the human brain ages, as well as a guide to «toning up your brain circuits» to better weather the onset of age — which is itself a relatively new problem for humankind, writes author Barbara Strauch, The New York Times «s deputy science and health and medical science editor, whose earlier book, The Primal Teen, considered the teenage braiUp Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle - Aged Mind (Viking) is a roundup of the most recent science on how the human brain ages, as well as a guide to «toning up your brain circuits» to better weather the onset of age — which is itself a relatively new problem for humankind, writes author Barbara Strauch, The New York Times «s deputy science and health and medical science editor, whose earlier book, The Primal Teen, considered the teenage braiup your brain circuits» to better weather the onset of age — which is itself a relatively new problem for humankind, writes author Barbara Strauch, The New York Times «s deputy science and health and medical science editor, whose earlier book, The Primal Teen, considered the teenage brain.

Growing up in five countries as a child, I grew accustomed to accompanying my mom on shopping trips through markets and bazaars — spotting unique, beautiful, local items sometimes in the middle of a heap of other stuff.

On Monday, WTI closed at US$ 52.22 a barrel, up by 3 percent, while Brent crude settled at US$ 59.02 — its highest since July 2015 — on the back of growing optimism that the OPEC production cut deal is finally having a palpable effect on global supplies of crude oil, and the equally growing worry that the Middle East could be in for more tensions — this time between the Kurdish nation and the countries it inhabits, following an independence referendum in the Kurdistan autonomous region in Iraq.

We have to start resolving structural issues like excess debt and need to focus on how to get fertility rates up for the middle class if we wan na grow without relying too much on immigration.

The company has in recent years been aggressively courting foreign brands to set up Tmall stores to sell to China's vast and growing middle class by offering to smoothen out Chinese sales, payment and shipping processes.

With tensions in Middle East heating up and U.S. production of both crude and natural gas growing, here are some interesting strategies to take advantage of potential energy market moves.

Bill Robson, president of the C.D. Howe Institute, a public policy think - tank, said one of the greatest challenges for the middle class is saving more for retirement at the same time wages aren't growing nearly as fast and household debt piles up.

While a change on Monday restored a $ 3.2 billion middle - class provision allowing those enrolled in employer - sponsored dependent - care savings plans to deduct up to $ 5,000 from their taxes, a revision on Friday rolled back individual tax cuts by nearly $ 82 billion by indexing individual tax parameters to a different measure of inflation that tends to grow more slowly.

As India modernizes, its middle class grows, and the nation assumes its new role in the global economy, energy supply will have to keep up with the pace of growth.

Osberg grew up near Philadelphia in an upper - middle - class family of Italian immigrants.

Brody Speno, 19, grew up with Cruz and attended Riverglades Elementary and Westglades Middle School alongside him.

Growing up outside of Toronto, in middle school she launched an event planning business, followed by a handbag company, then a career counseling firm out of high school.

Throughout my life, whether in elementary, middle or high school, college or my first job, buying a house and getting married; I've always thought the next step would qualify me as positively grown up.

The old alliance between sensible LIBERTARIANISM and SOCIAL CONSERVATISM can't hold in the face of the vanishing middle class, the birth dearth combined with increasing longevity, the depoliticizing challenges of the 21st competitive marketplace, the irresponsibility of our techno - meritocracy, our inability to keep Locke in the Locke box on issues having to do with families and our erotic lives, and the connection between increasing individualism and growing dependency on the state summed up in the phrase «single mom.»

People grow up and lets fix the real problems, the middle doesn't like one party or the other, they want us to fix everything and work together.

Don't you think that it is time to grow up past the bigotry, ignorance, intolerance and hate of the middle ages?

And the people of the Middle East often looked upon the meaning of the name of a child as a prediction or prophecy for what kind of person that child would grow up to be.

To the cynic who might suggest that I come to terms with the differences within myself by taking a trip to Saudi Arabia, live a day in a life as Bouazizi only to realize that these differences should n`t exist, be curtailed, or that the makeup of the U.S is a standard makeup for the Middle East on its way in becoming good, or at least docile, I'll say this: grow up.

I get the impression that you grew up in the Middle East, and that your life has been filled with fear and violence.

If you physically do something on the sabbath your soul does not get pulled down to hell, you don't lose your ability to be jewish, you wont be cast a derelict of society, grow up, let the kids play in thier basketball tournament, they won't all grow ill if they play saturday, its 2012 not the Middle Ages.

And that I've accepted my limitations with a certain humility» He is still a «middle - aged boy who never wants to grow up»: he yearns for mothering.

It's time to leave the middle ages and grow up.

Otherwise competent journalistic reports on research findings about male homosexuality, such as Peter and Barbara Wyden's Growing Up Straight (Stein & Day, 1968), confound the picture for the public by appealing to the fears of middle - class parents; further, they profess (without foundation) to show that parents can educate their children away from the possibility of becoming homosexual.

If you grew up in the middle east you would be forced into Islam, much like your parents forced christianity on you.

lol this is hillarious and if I grew up in the middle east I would still be a Christian, the gospel message is preached there as well and it makes the most sense, especially when I have experienced God's supernatural power for myself!

I had to grow up and be an adult... not the dependent child, the subject of a relegated religion, and not even the middle manager of my spiritual life.

What most Westerners don't understand is that people who have grown up under the Sharia Law and in the Middle East do not understand the concept of free speech.

As someone who grew up in the largest muslim city outside of the middle east (Detroit Metro) and having grown up getting muslim holidays off of school, I would argue that if some 12 + % of NYC students really are muslim — if this guy has his facts right — why not?

At the other end of the spectrum, children in middle - to - upper - class families grow up knowing that college, work, and a strong family are all desirable and attainable.

Reminds me of those pictures of mountain cliffs and high up in the middle of the face of the cliff grows a single tree out from a crevice.

Volunteers are involved in combating female genital mutilation in East Africa, providing counseling services to children in war - torn areas of the Middle East, helping young Romanians integrate into society after growing up in orphanages, and meeting the needs of street children in Cambodia, Mexico, and Mongolia.

Some men in minority cultures are finding, as they move into the middle - class world through job or profession, that friendship between women and men is possible and that a companionship marriage can be more satisfying than the one they have grown up with and married into.

However, the pattern of moving up in America is so strong that this orientation grows weaker as members become more middle - class.