Sentences with phrase «between rich people»

That's the difference between rich people who keep their money and rich

Not exact matches

The annual report by Oxfam found that the number of billionaires rose at a rate of one every two days between March 2016 and March 2017, while in the United States the three richest people own the same wealth as the poorest half of the population.

Between saying that it's easier to get a camel through the eye of a needle that for a rich person to get into heaven THEN saying feed the poor he sent a pretty clear message.

Half a century after Independence, as of now, we have the largest population of poor people in the world, one third of our rural population is below the poverty line and despite the UN agencies» massive aid projects, the development assistance of the World Bank, bilateral aid, the Center and State governments» intervention, the gap between the rich and the poor has doubled in the last three decades - fifteen years ago the lowest 20 per cent of global population received 2.5 per cent of global wealth whereas at present, the share has been reduced to less than 1.3 per cent.

Feminism challenges the legitimacy of sex roles Along with other social movements, feminism is rooted in the critique that a society so constructed that certain people and groups profit from inequalities — between men and women, rich and poor, black and white, etc. — is a society in which money is more highly valued than love, justice, and human life itself.

But it is also held that globalization has brought in its wake, great inequities, mass impoverishment and despair, that it has fractured society along the existing fault lines of class, gender and community, while almost irreversibly widening the gap between rich and poor nations, that it has caused the flow of currencies across international borders, which has been responsible for financial and economic crises in many countries and regions, including the current Asian financial crisis, that it has enriched a small minority of persons and corporations within nations and within the international system, marginalizing and violating the basic human rights of millions of workers, peasants and farmers and indigenous communities.

TV scheduling means it is normal for viewers to channel - flip between a documentary about famine in East Africa and an episode of Location, Location, Location in which Kirstie and Phil persuade rich people to buy mansions.

As long as the gap between the rich and the poor is widening, people who feel disenfranchised will always hide behind religion to hurt the innocent

Solovyev characterized the spiritual climate in Europe in the following way: «The only essential difference and inequality between people still existing in the West is the inequality of a rich man and a worker; the only grandeur, the supreme power, still having there the real force, is the grandeur and power of capital» (FNCZ 63).

People's anguish is not over the alienation between the soul and God but rather over the estrangement between black and white, rich and poor, male and female, East and West.

Our emphasis on consumption, and the growing gap between the rich and poor, presents a self - esteem issue for poor people and a threat to our democracy.

This means that economic goals like liquidation of poverty and unemployment, distribution of welfare, narrowing the gulf between the rich and the poor, people's participation in the economic process, accountability of economic centres to the people, economic self - sufficiency and similar other economic purposes are jeopardized because the market is not concerned with them.

Although it is expected that the information society will enrich people worldwide, there are also serious concerns about the disparity between the information - rich and the information - poor and about future employment.

Last and most significant, congregational plot — capacious, political, and historical — testifies to the symbolic relationship that exists between the rich drama of church life and the struggle of the world's peoples.

I do believe God wants to prosper his people, but somehow some churches, like the one I once was apart of, tainted it with some sort of discrimination between the rich and the poor.

The pattern of economic growth in all the countries in Asia favours the rich and creates imbalances in the relationships between different sections of people.

Once these people have reached «moderate poverty» — average income between one and two dollars a day — then the worst is over; as long as the rich countries do not «advertently or inadvertently set snares along the lower rungs» with protectionist trade barriers and the like, these people should make steady progress, «even if it is uneven and sometimes painfully slow.»

Many in this context have pointed very strongly to the «growing gap between the rich and the poor that has ensued whether this is experienced locally, nationally or internationally, and how the «open and borderless world of economics» that has emerged has destroyed local and national economies and created conditions for the untold new sufferings of people.

The elderly should not be great social outcasts, but a living «overpass» between generations; not a dead end but a well - lighted avenue to lead younger people into the riches of a superlative time of life.»

From the very poor (Ruth) to the very rich (Queen Esther) to people in between (Simon Peter) to people who shifted their financial status throughout their lives.

If the riches make it harder to have frequent and trustworthy relationship between people, is it worth it?»

One class was composed of people of quality or the rich and the other involved common folk or the not - so - rich, though financial status was not the only distinguishing mark between the two groups.

It was the first time I saw with my own eyes how tremendous a disparity existed between the middle class / rich and the poor (most people) in Jamaica.

Most people love the rich, creamy taste of chocolate, but not everyone knows the difference between cocoa and cacao.

In between meals, a lot of people swear by protein - rich snacks, but I find I do better with fat.

And Farage said he would «rather not be slightly richer» if given the choice between a modest increase in GDP and not having five million more people arrive in Britain.

«This rate proposal has a low - income provision, but it's those people that are working above the threshold but not rich... lower income workers, those are the people that are going to get hit the hardest and face the choice between heat and groceries,» Hawkins said.

«Although well intentioned, the last Government received very little for their money in terms of social mobility and a reduction in the gap between the rich and the poor, and they have further fuelled a culture of benefit dependency in which children grow up seeing parents and grandparents who have never worked as their role models, in which people are better off living apart than living together, and in which there is no incentive to work because of the fear of becoming worse off.

If you are prepared to be unpopular you could accomplish an awful lot for the benefit of the people you represent, so I would hope to reduce the prison population and reduce the gap between rich and poor, as it seems that the smaller the gap the fewer of society's ills trouble everybody.

With a double - dip recession and a growing gap between the rich and the poor, his aspirational message will fall on deaf ears compared to the reality of what people see around them.

«I think Donald Trump was not very honest about that change that he was promising, but people see that divide economically between rich and poor.»

A choice between an «irresponsible capitalism» which sees huge gaps between the richest and the poorest, power concentrated in a few hands, and people are just in it for the fast buck whatever the consequences.

I think glibness, I think ideologically based rhetoric, I think trying to divide up society between the haves and have — nots and mobilise the middle ground against the rich is as unacceptable as we have from elsewhere in the political spectrum trying to mobilise the middle ground against what they call welfare scroungers but are actually poor people who have little and want more.

When so many people are fearing for their modest livelihoods, unglamorous homes and shrinking pensions, this is precisely the worst moment for the Tories to be embroiled in a squalid squabble between rich kids about huge yachts, banking dynasties and Russian billions.

Mark - Viverito's move shows how impossible it is in New York to figure who is poor, who is rich and who is in between — but the city persists anyway in making taxpayers «help» people who don't need help.

It is also an unbalanced recovery with huge areas of the UK and millions of ordinary people yet to feel the benefits, while the gap between rich and poor gets ever wider.

In a sign of increasing tensions between Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition partners, Bernard Jenkin, the chair of the Commons public administration committee, said: «If the politics of envy made a country rich, we'd be very rich... Most rich people are contributing far more in tax than other people.»

In a sign of increasing tensions between Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition partners, Bernard Jenkin, chair of the Commons public administration committee, said: «If the politics of envy made a country rich, we'd be very rich... Most rich people are contributing far more in tax than other people.»

A former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party's Board of Trustees, Chief Tony Anenih, says the military administration of President Muhammadu Buhari kept him in jail for 18 months between March 1984 and August 1985 because he was a rich man.

Both countries are working to reduce gaps in health services accessibility and in health outcomes between rich and poor, urban and rural and indigenous and nonindigenous people.

Part of the rewards of relative riches is the distance between famine or poor people's foods and a rich diet.

We can use our rich knowledge of how neurons in animals process visual information to bridge the gap between animals and people.

A gap of at least 18 % in the proportion who seek care for children with pneumonia symptoms, between the poorest and richest people and

A difference of up to 80 % between the richest and poorest people in the proportion of births attended by skilled health personnel

In Ivory Coast and Ghana, internal movement of people of various ethnic origins and immigration from poorer, neighboring Burkina Faso have not only created tensions between richer and poorer people but also muddied property rights.

Consequently, the Missouri team used population density as a proxy for social complexity, reasoning that when more people are concentrated in a geographic region, trade springs up between groups, there is greater division of labor, the gathering of food becomes more efficient, and interactions among individuals become richer and more varied.

A model of this kind is critical to providing early warnings for people living in volcanically active areas, understanding geothermal energy potential, and exploring the relationship between magma composition and metal - rich ore deposits.

What it found was that between the ages of 50 and 65, risk was increased in people who ate a protein - rich diet, whereas in people over 65 years old experienced a decrease in mortality.

In the most recent post, he suggested that some people who have genetic difficulties recycling methionine from homocysteine may need small doses of methionine to hold them over between meals, which they can get from a small methionine - rich snack.

Most people are familiar with the famous exchange between Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway regarding rich people.