Sentences with phrase «better status symbol»

For those of you who like to live on the cutting - edge side of the tech world, there's no better status symbol than the smartwatch.

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The headphones have become a bit of status symbol worn by celebrities as well as audiophiles.

Its high price and lack of IT - friendly ports make it hard to see it as much more than a status symbol, but a good laptop is a good laptop all the same.

My critism is not at people working 9 to 5 jobs but at the whole system of 9 to 5 jobs.Having a 9 to 5 job also becomes a status symbol in South Africa cause a job means money, money immediately means a better standard of material living.Its very frustrating actually.There are many creative options as a way of earning a living.Again, to reitterate, its the system that gets me mad, institutionilisation of peoples lives for money...

During colonial days in mission churches, Christians in good standing would give up the status symbol and send away all but one wife, said Kombo.

Best Advice: «Exhaustion is Not a Status Symbol» (Lillian Cunningham at The Washington Post interviews Brené Brown)

Given that most well - heeled Chinese women do not work, these nannies - with - extras are more of a status symbol than a necessary accessory to a busy life.

For better or worse, it has become the ultimate status symbol, a timeless confirmation of a scientist's impact on the world.

In part, that's because Senate confirmation has also become a status symbol among some Washington bureaucrats: Those holding such positions are more likely to be called to testify before Congress, as well as granted access to internal discussions that are off - limits to lower - ranking colleagues.

And either way, it's not good, because we already live in a day and age where being «crazy busy» functions as a status symbol.

3) Having a young man nowadays is a status symbol for a woman; she wants people to know that she is doing well and that she is attracting all men including young men.

They are a perfect symbol of the Great American Dream; a mass - produced status symbol with the power to speed the owner away to a better place.

Branded content like «Dear Basketball,» designed to create a counternarrative of the great Kobe, is something that has induced eye rolls from sports fans for 13 years — except for those in Los Angeles and especially Hollywood, where good seats to Lakers games are a status symbol.

Being assigned to work with the «best» kids in the school is considered a badge of honor and a symbol of status in the school.

Except for that one awkward moment, Automobile Magazine's test of the world's top two automotive status symbols could not have fared better.

Economy cars has always been available, but did not sell nearly as well as large and comfu gas - guzzler... status symbols... safety... and many excuses for buying big and livin» large!

Between safety features and infotainment systems driving up even entry - level vehicles» price tags; and car - hailing apps turning four - wheeled freedom machines into appliances, people 18 to 35 simply don't have a good reason to care about cars, unless they want a luxo - truck as a status symbol.

First and foremost, the X6 gave the customer base a vehicle that can be used as both a performance vehicle with some off road capabilities, as a fashion statement, a luxury status symbol and a comfortable long trip vehicle as well.

The Maruti Swift DZire comes with all the positive aspects of the Swift, coupled with slightly better rear seat legroom, bigger boot and three - box saloon status symbol.

Treasured as a status symbol believed to bring good luck, the Asian arowana is bred on high - security farms in Southeast Asia and sold by the hundreds of thousands each year.

Bentley Motors is best known for creating very high end automobiles and being somewhat of a status symbol on the road.

Isn't the letter intentionally designed to present the new, higher limit as a status symbol, to undermine your good common sense about credit?

The sad but true fact about your all - important credit score is this: Good credit is a status symbol, and poor credit has a stigma attached to it.

«Dogs were made to be friends not exhibits, status symbols or «positional goods» that demonstrate their owner's aesthetic sensibilities, status, income or fastidious good taste.

His intimidating appearance has made him attractive to people looking for a macho status symbol, and this popularity has encouraged unscrupulous breeders to produce puppies without maintaining the pit bull's typical good nature with people.

Dogs are not status symbols to be stuck in the yard to make you look good.

It looks better for lawmakers to ban a breed than to target the true source of the problem with supposedly killer breeds: often young, unsupervised, poorly raised kids or the irresponsible adult looking for another status symbol to prove machismo.

Textiles in Bali, though, not only serve as protection against the cold and sun but are also powerful symbols indicating the status and well being of the wearer.

For the world's wealthiest people, art, and especially modern art, is now accepted as an asset - class investment, as well as being an object of desire and a symbol of social status — all of which insulate the top of the art market from the woes of the rest of the global economy.

In Utah Valley, it seems as if a vehicle is a status symbol with the standard reflecting the state of mind of «bigger is better.»

A high - priced Apple Watch — even a gold edition that costs $ 50,000 — could have been a status symbol by the virtue of what it represented beyond itself as a product: a contribution to a charitable foundation or the pursuit of science for the good of humanity.

If nothing else, at a time when flagships test the $ 1000 threshold, the affordable Xiaomi Mi A1 is a reminder that good phones don't need to be status symbols.

The rest of the world still had yet to catch up on the use of the rug as a status symbol as well as elegant interior decoration, but the Middle East and Asia had already started to make the most of their affinity for area rugs.