Sentences with phrase «affluent parts of»

OK, go ahead and laugh: Take newlyweds with a modest income and little savings for a downpayment, and tell them they can buy a house in one of the most affluent parts of the country — say, in Northern Virginia, just outside the nation's capital.

Almost overnight the introduction of the «pet passport» facilitated commerce in both «puppy mill» and «rescue» dogs from the less affluent parts of the E.U.

To help you find your own foreign paradise, we asked six experts to name their top choices for safe, reasonably affluent parts of the world where attractive properties go for $ 250,000 or less.

At the height of the tourist season — winter and summer — Waikïkï Beach was crowded with visitors, but during the offseason there was more room for families like ours, from less affluent parts of the city, and my family and I would often enjoy the beach in the company of my Korean «sisters» and their families.

Some families, particularly in affluent parts of the state, have refused to allow their children to take the test.

But in more affluent parts of the city there was some evidence of meaningful progress, both in terms of student learning and in community buy - in.

While all this is happening, less affluent parts of the island have begun to grapple with issues that do not feel suburban at all.

He criticised MPs representing affluent parts of the South - east who claim they can not find good schools for their sons and daughters.

While families in affluent parts of the state rail against assessing student learning, children in high need communities suffer.

In the more affluent parts of the district, Times penetration is strong, but those votes were going to likely go to Mr. Jeffries anyway.

Second, as protests spread to the more affluent parts of the country, people poured into the streets of cities like Sfax and Tunis and began to organize themselves with cell phones and Facebook.

The only surprise in this latest effort by the Greater Chicago Food Depository to illustrate hunger in the metropolitan area is how affluent parts of town feel the pangs as well.

The only surprise in this latest effort by the Greater Chicago Food Depository to illustrate hunger in the metropolitan area is how affluent parts of town feel the...

The much more salient point is that Whole Foods gives Amazon ready access to affluent parts of the population.

I am a mother raising children in a relatively affluent part of the country (while being non-affluent), and this post resonated with me.

Wildwood International Baccalaureate World Magnet School is a public, non-selective enrollment neighborhood magnet school in an affluent part of Chicago, offering available seats to students city - wide.

The improved rate at Woodson in a low - income neighborhood in Northeast Washington puts the school above the citywide average and just five points shy of the graduation rate for Woodrow Wilson High School, the District's largest comprehensive school, located in an affluent part of town.

Activist parents in an affluent part of Mar Vista reported that along with smelling alcohol on him at school, the teacher was verbally abusive to kids, made students cry and helped them cheat on the state standardized test.

She said the school would not advance the community because it is located in an affluent part of the North Side that she believes is well - served by public schools.

Richmond Hill is a town located immediately north of Toronto Richmond Hill is known for being an affluent part of the GTA with many large properties.

There are some very well kept temples along this more affluent part of Bali, and if you happen to be here in March for the Balinese New Year, or Nyepi, then you will have the experience of a lifetime as all the local Banjars bring out their giant, monstrous, horrific ogres, or ogo ogos, and take to the streets in an eerie yet comical procession.

The area is known as a very affluent part of Orlando with excellent golf courses and plenty of open park space.

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Dustin Moskovitz is part of the Giving Pledge, through which many affluent individuals dedicate their family wealth to philanthropy.

They are considered part of the valuable mass affluent class that every single financial institution wants to attract.

Special tax treatment of dividend income costs a lot in terms of foregone government revenues, mainly benefits the very affluent, and thus merits serious re-consideration as part of the federal government's current review of tax expenditures.

The common cap is $ 1 million in liquid assets to invest as a definition because if you've got much more, then you're obviously a millionaire and not part of the mass affluent crowd.

Certainly it must be tempting to look at all you're doing without, especially in comparison to much of our affluent society, and to feel that you are better, that you have demonstrated your faith and devotion — maybe even to feel you have done your part.

So even though trying to live faithfully as part of an affluent society, with all the temptations this entails, is in some ways more difficult and more uncomfortable than living the radical response, it does have several important advantages:

We have now considered several methodologies for arriving at a standard of what we must share of our own with the rest of the world if we are to remain a part of the middle class of an affluent society and still be faithful.

The recent sex scandals play a relatively small part in the story and are represented as indicative of larger dynamics created by the mistakes in implementing Vatican II at a time when newly affluent and confident Catholics were engaging a culture that was in the process of self - destructing.

If I were running the government, I would see to it that school districts that serve the poor would have a larger share of the tax revenue than school districts that serve the affluent, for in the poor districts there is far more ground to be made up to provide the open equality of opportunity, and equality of opportunity must be a part of every just society.

Part of this is ideology, of course, since affluent white liberals are the most extreme segment of the Democratic coalition.

Liberation theology is part of a «criminal conspiracy» because it doesn't help poor people cope with inhuman conditions and social systems that «favor an affluent few and maintain masses in poverty.»

A large part of the affluent world is now experiencing a large measure of freedom from the struggle for subsistence, but there are many within that world who are not and many more outside that world who can hardly survive.

«Today our business is much more robust, it's about taking our branded business into markets where they recognise the importance of clean, green produce and where provenance plays a part and there's a consumer segment that is affluent and willing to pay a premium for Australian produce.

«It's about taking our branded business into markets where they recognise the importance of clean green produce and where provenance plays a part and there is a consumer segment that is affluent and willing to pay a premium for Australian produce,» Mr Weine said.

In part, it's because I present as an affluent, white, cisgender woman, and, for the most part, I get to choose when and where and how I share that piece of who I am.

Another part of the answer has to do with early cognitive stimulation: Affluent parents typically provide more books and educational toys to their kids in early childhood; low - income parents are less likely to live in neighborhoods with good libraries and museums and other enrichment opportunities, and they're less likely to use a wide and varied vocabulary when speaking to their infants and children.

Overall, Democratic presidential candidates have raised significantly more money than Republicans, and these January - through - June numbers show that it is in part a result of their finding a route into the wallets of the well educated and affluent as well as suburbanites in general:

In the North, African - American populations are largely confined to large urban areas and their less affluent first ring suburbs, and segregated neighborhoods that are a legacy of pre-Civil Rights era patterns of housing discrimination remain the norm in older parts of non-Southern cities, (although newer suburbs tend to be considerably more integrated than older neighborhoods outside the South).

ALBANY — State officials face a major challenge in deciding whether to allow casinos in economically struggling parts of the Catskills or in relatively affluent Orange County, closer to New York City, Gaming Facilities Location Board member Kevin Law said.

The majority of the research settings were located in the poor, rural parts of Tanzania, while one was located in Pretoria, the affluent capital of South Africa.

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I found that my suitability was ideal for a lady from a less affluent and supposedly less developed part of the world.

I personally found that my suitability was ideal with a lady from a less affluent and supposedly less developed part of the world.

Joined by Reese Witherspoon, Shailene Woodley and Zoe Kravitz, she formed part of a formidable female alliance in the affluent Californian sunshine.

This customer subsample of parents is, not surprisingly, more educated and affluent than parents who are identically selected except that the costs of their child's attendance are covered in whole or in part by entities outside the family.

Nashville school officials have rejected a proposal to open a charter school in a middle - class part of the city, highlighting a broader national battle over efforts by operators of such publicly financed, privately run schools to expand into more affluent areas.

MARTIN: Before we let you go, is part of the play here on these new regulations is that if affluent schools realize they might lose something, that that might create some urgency around making sure that less affluent kids get what they need - is that part of the logic of this?

Rather than declare that charters are a universal solution, proponents might see that moving into affluent communities deflates the moral high ground they have used to political advantage in their characterization of charters as part of the new civil rights movement.