Sentences with phrase «better class of person»

The rise of individualism has not brought us a better class of person.

But he really should try to hang around with a better class of people, who would not have put him in this awkward position.

Not exact matches

In fact, researchers have found that when people think they are more physically attractive, they believe that they belong to a higher social class, regardless of how good looking they really are or their actual social status.

Professor Harry Kraemer at the Kellogg School of Management, author of Becoming the Best: Build a World - Class Organization Through Values - Based Leadership, tells me that being a social entrepreneur has very little to do with how much money you have or the number of people who report to you.

The Board and the Executive Leadership Team are confident that Dara is the best person to lead Uber into the future building world - class products, transforming cities, and adding value to the lives of drivers and riders around the world while continuously improving our culture and making Uber the best place to work.

But the «backbone» of Canada's well - to - do class, says McCullough, are people who, through business or investing success, have amassed a few tens of millions of dollars.

Granted, downloading a set of textbooks and teacher guides isn't the same as taking classes; then again, for many people self - paced learning is the best kind of learning.

«It would be a big loss to the country if President Trump were to stop the program,» says Lam, 49, the founder and CEO of the Best in Class Education Center franchise, a Seattle - based chain of 50 learning centers in 10 states that employ about 300 people.

Attorneys for McDonald's workers have filed class action suits in three states claiming that the company was responsible for illegally withholding wages in a number of ways, including calling people in but not paying them for all the time they were required to be in stores as well as charging for the costs of uniforms.

As Richard Settersten, author of Not Quite Adults: Why 20 - Somethings Are Choosing a Slower Path to Adulthood, and Why It's Good for Everyone, has said: «the media focuses so much on coddled kids, but there's a huge, invisible class of young people that's just not part of our public discussion and who are really in dire straits.»

LifePosts» initial funding (under a million dollars) came mostly in $ 25,000 increments from individual angel investors — a class of people that is larger and better organized than it was in 2000.

One example that I read about, Stanford University, a teacher in artificial intelligence offered a class, a couple of hundred kids in the class, he offered it online to 30,000 people, or 20,000 people, and if I remember correctly when he gave the test there were 400 people, or something like that, that did better than the number one kid at Stanford.

«Even though extant research has identified numerous predictors of people's happiness and well being, most of these factors represent relatively stable aspects of an individual's life, such as the cultural environment in which one is raised or resides and demographics such as age, education, social class, marital status, and religion,» write the researchers.

When someone coaches you through and you have the motivation of other people in the class, it's a better model.

As CEO and founder of the Canfield Training Group, I have personally helped 1000s of thousands of people become multi-millionaires, business leaders, best - selling authors, leading sales professionals, successful entrepreneurs, and world - class athletes while creating balanced, fulfilling and healthy lives.

The basic idea is that while most economists believe corporate taxes are primarily paid by owners of capital (that is, people who own stock in corporations) in the form of lower profits, a sizable minority, including White House chief economist Kevin Hassett, think that a lower tax rate would spark so much additional investment in the United States that it would bid up wages and leave the middle class better off through its indirect effects.

He has co-authored published studies with titles such as «On wealth and the diversity of friendships: High social class people around the world have fewer international friends,» and «The Role of Positive Self - Evaluation on Cross-Cultural Differences in Well - Being.»

«The Board and the Executive Leadership Team are confident that Dara is the best person to lead Uber into the future building world - class products, transforming cities, and adding value to the lives of drivers and riders around the world while continuously improving our culture and making Uber the best place to work,» Uber's board said in a statement late on Aug. 29.

Thanks for the input, I feel people are griping about the compensation packages because they can directly see the effects of the shrinking middle class, good bye American dream.

According to research by economist David Macdonald of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, they also benefit well - off people far more than the middle class or low - income people.

He's personally helped hundreds of thousands of people become multi-millionaires, business leaders, best - selling authors, leading sales professionals, successful entrepreneurs, and world - class athletes while creating balanced, fulfilling and healthy lives.

So, by your reasoning, if «People put so much importance on words» (implying that they don't matter and we shouldn't take thought of how we use them) then I ought to be able to sing along with the lyrics from pac's «hit»em up» with my black friends, curse in a kindergarten class as well as a corporate meeting for my boss... what impression would a client have of my boss if I were cussing in a professional meeting or at a charity event... it doesn't add up, it's a cop - out rebuttal... trying to find loopholes or applying «human reasoning» like» ll take a swearing guy who's helpful» doesn't change Jesus or scripture it's just setting up a what - if scenario and trying to allow that to in some way justify your stance when again, that doesn't change The Holy Spirit or His heart in those who have been born again... the verses (inspired by His own Spirit) speak for themselves.

For all Dworkin's intellectual elegance and flashes of humanity, he ultimately offers the «autonomous» members of the middle class a comforting rationale for serving our own interests while continuing to feel that we are good people.

Religious people are so concerned about the so - called «culture war» that they're out there voting for the greatest enemies of the well - being and opportunity of the working - and middle - classes.

Best Sermon: Nadia Bolz - Weber with «Sermon on that special class of salty, light - bearing people to whom Jesus preaches»

Worship through the giving of the religious tax is the best means of promoting the welfare of society, linking the classes of the community with reciprocal sympathy and compassion, and spreading throughout the people a sentiment of love and cooperation.

I suppose unless I'm already a believer I will need to pay a believer a nice sum of money in order and take a class in order to understand why a covenant that carries the penalty of death if this god is not worshipped is changed because, help me here (well of course unless god can speak for himself - I guess I have to ask those who have studied his word that he gave only once 2000 years ago to another culture), so after this covenant he came down and became a man in order to give people grace so he doesn't kill them if they don't worship him?

The answer, of course, has been that poor people must be raised from poverty and that the expectations of middle class people for the good things of life must be met.

Although Marxist theory teaches the establishment of a classless society through the expropriation of the bourgeoisie and the dictatorship of the proletariat, in actual practice the self - styled «Peoples» Democracies» contain well - defined new classes.

Police and governmental controls on such groups — and they have in America always included a significant proportion of the common people as well as the upper classes — have been minimal compared to most European or Asian societies.

And Mary you should be investigated because people of classes and categories that you belong to have molested children as well.

a very thin skinned religious person who basically focuses all of his energy on worshiping on himself... What do you call it when the President disregards the definition of radical islamic muslims... wolf in sheep clothing... The bigger issue at hand is the economy, job creation, national debt, and maintaining a good middle class... all of which over the last 4 years has been failing..

Republicans should be happy to learn this Truth that has brought America to the state of Light for Obama to pick on it.One thing good about American Democracy is it is «truly participating» and lasting with lessons for others to follow in modernity to tap blue horizons of life.Those blue horizons just do not end in economics that has many minds to tap the financial barometer of the country self educative in working of its affluent class and ordinary class both domestically and internationally relating to perfection with budgeting of money in economic plans that have been existing and are in the process to move charismatically with a tide over where bipartisan element also comes into play well integrated to test the mettle of the top leader of the country who has to stand over the continuous democratic element evolving of the country both in economic as well as inherently in spiritual terms for the good of the people at large mixing with the culture of exchange that has humanity behind it to survive??

It represents the inevitable confusion of middle - class intellectualism which imagines that political changes are achieved by the united efforts of good people who bring pressure to bear upon traditional political parties.

What is clear is that his whole analysis was such as to create sympathy for the «little people» (workers as well as members of the lower - middle class) who were joining the Nazi movement.

In its present manifestation, voluntary simplicity is a middle - class movement of well - educated people «who like to think and read, who look thoughtfully at every aspect of their lives and consider the consequences of their decisions.»

And so, in a good and godly quest to prepare for the act of loving and serving others, they just attend one seminar after another, one training session after another, one class after another, and many of them never get around to actually loving the other person.

One might argue that this was all due to capitalism, but oppression of people because of race, gender, and sexual orientation raises questions that are not well treated by class analysis.

They demand nothing short of upper class / caste domination in our society to end and strive for a new order wherein the wealth of nations is no longer concentrated in the hands of a few, but wherein people actively participate in the development and well - being of the nation.

Business people continue to believe, mutatis mutandis, that «what is good for General Motors is good for America»; the new middle - class professionals, no doubt with equal sincerity, believe that the «reordering of national priorities» that guarantees their privileges benefits the poor, the underclass or whatever other morally acceptable beneficiary can be plausibly cited.

But it is accepted by almost everyone of influence, as well as by the urban middle class and most young people.

A society in which married couples are expected to be faithful to their marital vows «for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health» is a society that assumes all people, regardless of class, can experience marriage as a «school of love»» no matter what economic hardships may confront them.

Most people know only what we first mentioned, that there are good and bad people, and of course they count themselves for the most part among the good or even the better class.

But there is also a new middle class, based on the production and distribution of symbolic knowledge, whose members are the increasingly large number of people occupied with education, the media of mass communication; therapy in all its forms, the advocacy and administration of well - being, social justice and personal lifestyles.

His naive use of class differences to identify excellence («Ministers of the better class are not satisfied to accept the rural churches») and his explicit call for theological schools to train persons to minister specifically to the rich suggest that this interest in theology, which is otherwise so thoroughly underemployed in Harper's proposed reform of theological schooling, is vulnerable to ideological misuse as a «cover» that at once obscures and legitimates an underlying concern to secure the churches» social status.

So on this happy day, as the students of the class of 2014 celebrate a milestone achievement with their families, their friends, and their teachers, I come to congratulate you, to wish you well, and to address each of you as a person who has received the good turn of a fine education, and who should feel a responsibility to repay the debt of that education by living well as a person, mindful of the personhood, the individuality, and the good of others around you, in the various communities through which your life will take you.

It involves a visceral media and leadership - class contempt for people like the hundreds of thousands of stubbornly good persons who continue to march each January — peacefully, respectfully, and joyfully — in defense of the unborn child.

Does it make me power hungry if I'm a good teacher and lots of people come to my classes?

Animal sacrifice would be reinsti.tuted as well as a preistly class of people that can only be born into it, so everyone would have to try and trace their lineage all the way back to Aaron (moses brother).

Thus the Atlanta speaker declared: «You [of the middle class] will extol their folk religion as the authentic experience of an authentic people, but it is not the religion you prefer or know best.»