Sentences with phrase «class citizens at»

Living in a world where they are constantly portrayed as second class citizens at best, but often not even citizens at all, it is not surprising that colonised groups have struggled to maintain their own identities and confidence in their abilities.

Both cats and dogs are 1st class citizens at our shelter.

«Scottish representatives would be able to vote on some of the business at Westminster but not all of it and would not be able to vote on some budget decisions on income tax and thus would undoubtedly become second class citizens at Westminster.

Where women are 2nd class citizens at best, and those that offer the most basic of questions are tried, convicted, imprisoned and maybe put to death for questioning Allah and / or your ped - o - phile prophet

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Namely, that our political institutions too often favor a small class of privileged elites, at the expense of average citizens.

Bank of America has been hit with a proposed class action by a Brazilian citizen who said he was denied a job at the bank because his work authorization, granted under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA program, is subject to renewal.

Polis hopes to increase the number of EB - 5 Regional Center Program visas — for foreign investors or entrepreneurs that create at least five jobs for U.S. citizens or legal immigrants — to 10,000 from 3,000; and create a new class of eligibility called Startup Visas.

A new program from PayPal is aimed at banking for the unbanked, helping them to become «first class citizens» in a digital economy.

Like it or not, the middle class became global citizens through consumerism — and they did so at the mall.

@Really?!?!?, the «making crap up» was directed at the idea that christian's are somehow being turned into second - class citizens because they will not be allowed to rent gym space at the Elementary School to hold a revival.

Jewish society was strongly male - centric, and women were second, maybe thrid class «citizens at best.

But... that somewhat failed... because if they only went to the Home Study, then they were looked at as a second - class citizen... they were urged to also go to Sunday Church (which did not work for them).

This makes sense to you, although it makes no sense at all to me (and I would predict it makes no sense to the other 5 billion of us non Muslims), I would have less problems if it were applied to all citizen of that country, both men and women, those in power and the working class, the rulers and the ruled, but that is not the case.

I have no idea why women would worship a being that is said to say that women are property at worst and at best are second class citizens not worthy of this god, which only can communicate with men.

At that time waves of new immigrants were arriving in the cities of North America, and etiquette books emerged which taught these newcomers, who would become middle class citizens, how to avoid misbehaving in public.

Any American who doesn't think ISLAM and America are at odds with our values should only look and see what Most Muslim countries look like, Iran, Pakistan, Saudia Arabia, no freedom at all, women all second class citizens, sharia law, women stoned, gays killed got just being gay, all other religious mininorties are oppressed and could be killed at any time, and deny all rights.

When we talk openly about treating children like people and share that we do not punish, force sleep, require everyone at a family dinner table, have chores, or otherwise treat our children like second class citizens we inevitably hear «respectful parenting would Continue reading Respectful Parenting Would Never Work With My Kid: Are you Sure?

Rent on living space (usually the largest cost factor for lower - class citizens) usually has no VAT at all.

MIDTOWN EAST — Disability rights activists accused the city of treating them as «second class citizens» at the unveiling of an accessible taxi they say is being downplayed by Mayor Bloomberg's administration.

Civil service clerks who unionize and advocate for a wage structure that enables them to participate in our economy as productive, middle - class citizens are demonized, ridiculed and exhorted to accept their status as serfs and vassals while an economy on the brink of complete failure can't throw enough money at the self - syled «nobility».

Hunt reinforced the positioning of mental illness at the top of the political agenda, when he told the Tory party conference in Manchester last week that mental health was a «personal priority» for the prime minister after «decades» of being a «second class citizen in the NHS».

Mitchell Kane, a professor of tax policy at NYU Law School, said courts have basically shut down constitutional challenges to federal tax legislation on grounds of differential treatment across citizens, absent discrimination based on some protected class.

«So if he doesn't change his mind, and he's second guessing our intentions and he's looking at us as second class citizens, this is a free country: When the election comes, there's consequences for that.»

We wish to take this opportunity to urge the working class to continue giving their all as we build a country that is able to take care of its citizens at all times.

A Forest Hills congressman took the Republican Party to task Tuesday for the millions of dollars in proposed budget cuts that would harm the working - class and senior citizens of Queens and the borough president bemoaned belt - tightening at the city level after $ 5 million of funding for the long - awaited Queens West library branch become embroiled in -LSB-...]

Governor Andrew Cuomo signs three bills which will lower the tax rate for middle class citizens, provide subsidized college tuition to families making $ 110,000 or less, and create an innovation hub at the University at Buffalo (WBEN Photo / Mike Baggerman)

Critics, including Upper Manhattan City Councilman Robert Jackson, said charter students at the schools are getting illegal, preferential treatment, while public students are being treated like «second class citizens,» forced to learn in lesser classrooms and loosing out on their fair share of library, auditorium and lunchroom time.

We have been disrespected and treated like second - class citizens, as they slowly chip away at our rights.»

Should I even put myself through the ringer and pursue a career in science or engineering if at the end of the day I am still going to be considered a second - class citizen for no reason other than discriminatory or patriarchal thinking?

This idea resonated with young African Americans, gays, Jewish people, and other groups at the time, and was very popular for groups that felt as though they were second - class citizens.

The train's creator, Wilford, leads from the engine at the front, while the tail is inhabited by low class citizens.

Mr Hughes said the trust was «shocked and saddened» at the suggestion «abominable practices like female genital mutilation and the treatment of women as second - class citizens are not robustly countered at Park View».

«Students at our public schools of choice have been treated like second - class citizens for far too long, and these proposed reforms signify Governor Malloy's position that all public school students should have access to the excellent educational options they deserve,» said Patrick Riccards, ConnCAN's CEO.

«Instead of being seen and treated as second - class citizens with separate funding streams constantly at risk of reduction or elimination, charter schools will now be funded in the same way that traditional public schools are funded,» California Charter Schools Association chief executive Jed Wallace wrote in a message to charter school operators, according to Ed Source.

As Executive Director of Citizens of the World Kansas City (CWC Kansas City), I'm thrilled to welcome our first class of kindergartners and first graders to our new campus at 3435 Broadway.

And that's why charter parents from upstate and downstate will be at the Capitol on February 2 fighting for charter students statewide who have been treated as second - class citizens for far too long.»

At most dealerships this makes you a second class citizen and a experience that you would rather trade for anything else in the world.

I would bet that the reason so many romance authors and readers find each other here at Smashwords is that they have found a place where they are not treated as second - class citizens, and authors can make a little money, sometimes a lot of money, and readers can find a great romance novel without paying an arm and leg for it.

Imagine my surprise not only to be treated like a second - class citizen, but also in having to check in my books at EVERY turn.

Clearly, the Boston area is a diploma hotbed, but what really propels Beantown to the head of the class is its citizens» common sense - at least relative to other parts of the country.

The purpose of the bank at that time was to offer the working - class citizens of the Delaware Valley a place to save their money in a community bank.

Since the dawn of time (or at least the early 2000s), Quicken has treated Mac users as second class citizens.

«I am still considered a second - class citizen, and at the fair, people tend to address my white team rather than me,» she sighs, «But we are beginning to reap the rwards of the fight started by our parents.

I desperately want to take an improv class at the Upright Citizens Brigade, because I think it would be really amazing to try to do something where you don't have a pencil and it's just you.

Leckey thought for a second about how he'd back that point up, perhaps considering how a middle - class citizen could be the subject of a talk at Frieze New York, the tony art fair on Randall's Island.

At the April 2012 community summit, art student Alan Lundgard noted that should the tuition model go through, «Our problems will exemplify our country's inability to provide for its citizens an education unencumbered by the barriers of class privilege or wealth.

As the class of 2099, you are about to enter the 22nd century in a few more months, and you will bring with you not only your university experience here at NTU, but also your career expectations and personal anxieties as citizens living on a planet in the midst of a climate crisis.

However, at my age, I am not so concerned about myself but I am extremely disturbed that my children, nieces and nephews and other relatives are now «second class citizens», vulnerable to revocation at the whim of some politician, with no court process.

The «local controversy» exception applies when the following criteria are met: (i) greater than two - thirds of the putative class members are citizens of the forum state; (ii) at least one defendant from whom «significant relief» is sought, and whose conduct forms a «significant basis» for the asserted claims, is a citizen of the forum state; and (iii) principal injuries related to each defendant's alleged conduct were incurred in the forum state.

Many of our authors were first - time scholars, working at schools that saw them as second - or even third - class citizens.