Sentences with phrase «by upper middle class»

Kids well socialized by upper middle class parents are sensitive to these risks, and for the most part they keep their distance.

2) the movements in Africa were mainly run by upper middle classes, this is also true for india untill they slashed the cost of joining the INC indian congress to become affordable m allowing to poor to have a say in the running of the party.Africa on the other hand had a more tribal approuch in that there were opinions and they were voiced, but the popularity of the «chief» was not often challenged

That is a neat claim, but our argument focuses on the threat of expropriation faced by the upper middle classes in autocracies.

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McKinsey has predicted that more than half of China's urban households will be in the upper middle class by 2020, compared to 14 % in 2012.

German's excessive debt burden after the Great War, for example, was «forgiven», unwillingly, mainly by middle - and upper - middle - class households and civil servants, whose fixed income portfolios withered to nothing in the hyperinflation that began in mid 1921 and ended in early 1924.

All told, though, the plan is, like its House counterpart, a proposal to dramatically slash corporate tax rates, open up a big new loophole for wealthy individuals, and pay for the cuts by dramatically expanding the national debt and ending a number of tax deductions that could leave a substantial share of middle - and upper - middle - class people paying more.

«All families in my upper middle - class neighborhood regularly enjoy a living standard better than that achieved by John D. Rockefeller Sr. at the time of my birth.

It becomes a vote - buying enterprise financed by transfers from the minority upper classes to the majority middle and lower classes.

We tend to stick in our suburban, middle class sanctuaries - we are inundated by a world of upper class media and entertainment.

Faulkner's description of the rape of the land, the destruction of a stubborn and hard - pressed peasantry, and the corruption of the southern middle and upper classes by those values transcends its particularly southern context and applies to America generally.5

The Democrats are dominated by a power - hungry and vengeful upper - middle - class liberalism that is more intent on injuring (or even just seeking to injure) their cultural rivals than on winning elections.

Young people who, as adults, merely retain the same level of upper - middle - class success that their parents have can regard themselves as standing still or coasting on the momentum acquired by their forebears.

One of the things I have respected most in Aida Rosa, principal of the elementary school P.S. 30, and the teachers that I talk with on her staff is that they look at children here as children, not as «distorted children,» not as «morally disabled children,» not as «quasi-children» who require a peculiar arsenal of reconstructive strategies and stick - and - carrot ideologies that wouldn't be accepted for one hour by the parents or the teachers of the upper middle class.

For those of upper - middle class sensibilities, the neoliberal order predicted by the 1990s remains inevitable.

Creighton, like nearly all American Catholic institutions, is run by upper - middle - class Americans.

Middle or upper class Americans who feel depressed can be doubly assaulted, first by their emotional condition and second by their knowledge that, compared to those in the developing world, they still have so much to be thankful for even if they can find no thanks to give.

By now it has been diffused widely through upper - middle - class culture in this country, most strongly on the west coast but elsewhere as well.

We can choose now to retreat once again into those echo chambers or begin to listen more attentively to one another — to love our neighbors by learning about them and their needs and perspectives whether black, white, Asian, or Latino / a; whether Christian, Muslim, or none; whether upper, middle, or working class; whether voter or one of the nearly half of eligible voters that sat out this election.

There are 300 million upper - and - middle - class consumers of processed and packaged food in the country, and another 200 million are expected to shift by 2010.

While there are a few who are vocal, like Against Equality, there is «a generation of upper - middle - class white lesbians and gays» who are «already enamored by the idea of marriage,» says Laurie Essig, a professor of sociology at Middlebury College, in the Salon article Will marriage change gay love?

Hmmm... I think by «American parenting», they might mean American upper - middle - class - and - probably - white - and urban - as - well, parenting.

Cheating is not, by any measure, the upper middle class problem reflected in these Stuyvesant anecdotes.

I don't doubt that «breast is best,» but I am disturbed by the social pressure in some (primarily middle and upper - middle class) areas to breastfeed.

Afropolitanism is a contemporary response to «Afro - pessimism» — a response led primarily by young people with a Western education, upper - middle class upbringing, accent - free English, and easy access to high - speed Internet.

At the same time, clinging to the idea that Labour has been hijacked by upper middle - class radicals allows so - called moderates to avoid facing up to what has actually gone wrong.

In order to get back to where we were we should make the civil service extremely difficult to enter academically, and employ more middle and upper class people who are more impervious to being seduced by money and power.

At least as important was the appeal to «excellent young people» attracted by the excitement and glamour of cutting - edge work and kept in their jobs by opportunities to build careers providing secure, upper - middle class lifestyles.

Middle - and upper - middle class people, as a result, express high expectations for their marriages, centering on self - fulfillment, deeply engaged parenting by both parents, and psycho - emotional awarMiddle - and upper - middle class people, as a result, express high expectations for their marriages, centering on self - fulfillment, deeply engaged parenting by both parents, and psycho - emotional awarmiddle class people, as a result, express high expectations for their marriages, centering on self - fulfillment, deeply engaged parenting by both parents, and psycho - emotional awareness.

Different types of skirts were used by the women in the history but in Middle Ages the upper class women were used to wear the long skirts and the diameter of those skirts was around three meters in diameter from the bottom.

Jazz grew out of the Civil War in New Orleans, and by the early 1900s it was linking white middle and upper classes to black entertainers.

The subject — a disastrous honeymoon on the Dorset coast in 1962 — can only be explained by digging into the backgrounds of Florence (Saoirse Ronan), a bright, rebellious violinist from upper - middle - class parents (Samuel West, Emily Watson), and Edward (Billy Howle), an earnest history graduate snootily regarded by his in - laws as a country bumpkin.

Telling the tale of a real - life botched heist by a band of upper - middle class white college guys, director Bart Layton (in his feature debut) injects his film with interviews of the film's real - life protagonists, to an overwhelming degree.

«Elles,» the provocative film by Malgoska Szumowska, borders on the pornographic as it explores the life of Anne (Juliette Binoche), an upper middle class journalist for «Elle» magazine, and the two student prostitutes who are the focus of her article.

Her intention being to steer away from the «scruffy, slumpy and bumpy» style typically adopted by upper - middle class families during the period and create something of utmost couture instead.

She comes an upper - middle class gift thanks to Marlo's wealthy douchebag brother Craig (played with perfect upper class snobbery by Mark Duplass) as a «night nanny.»

The muse for the character of Danny (played by Manchester by the Sea's Lucas Hedges), a skinny kid with a good singing voice from an upper - middle - class Irish Catholic family, was Gerwig's high school boyfriend, Connor Mickiewicz, who remembers making out with her in the McKinley Park rose garden, inspiring a key scene in the movie.

By default, the movie's subject becomes the bankruptcy of upper - middle - class mores.

Tracy Letts and Laurie Metcalf are vividly understated as Lady Bird's parents, middle - middle - class people surrounded by upper - middle - class neighbours.

Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore star as the upper - middle - class couple whose «ordinary» existence is irrevocably shattered by the death of their oldest son in a boating accident.

by Walter Chaw I love Stoker, Korean master Park Chan - wook's updating of Shadow of a Doubt that centres on «young Charlie's» sexual awakening and all the perverse tensions attending that moment in a brittle upper - middle - class Nashville.

It's like an antibody to the middle - class, medium - attractive girl by virtue of encouraging her to associate herself with upper - middle - class, gorgeous avatars and, through that agency, act in ways completely hostile towards common sense and decency.

It presents an inescapable scenario in which an upper middle - class family are tormented by two blood - thirsty young men (who are supposed to represent «us»).

The story follows the triumphs and travails of young Paddington (voiced by Ben Whishaw), a Peruvian bear who arrives in England and is quickly taken in, but only as a temporary stopgap, by an upper - middle - class family.

Blowing past government procedure and busting up prostitution rings run by the upper class, Bryan's search eventually culminates in a violent showdown with a Middle Eastern sheikh.

«People see that I'm upper middle class, that I'm a woman who stays at home, who is kept by her husband, and instantly there's no clout.

Even these baby steps toward a real accountability system produced a fierce political backlash, led largely by suburban middle - and upper - middle - class families.

Ed reform needs to win by convincing middle and upper - middle class families that they can benefit themselves from creating and expanding ed reform programs.

Through Choice, low - income parents now participate in some of the choices long enjoyed by middle and upper - class parents.

In Saving Schools, I bring together insights from the work of a number of talented black scholars, who have tried to figure out why the black - white education gap was not closed by the well - integrated schools of Shaker Heights, Ohio, an upper - middle - class suburb close to Cleveland.

At a panel convened last week by the Public School Forum of N.C., a research and advocacy group in Raleigh, Tulbert was one of several principals at low - performing schools — many of them teeming with low - income children — who described how their children tend to arrive lagging behind their middle - class and upper - class peers.