Sentences with phrase «class of person by»

Treated as a lesser class of person by her former companions, Sara instead befriends her fellow servants and turns to the power of imagination in order to maintain hope for the future.

Not exact matches

Doing so would please the people Castaldo and McIntyre wrote about, and surely would be welcomed by those seeking the trappings of the middle class.

I went from a person totally okay with curling up in my leggings and sweatshirt into a tiny ball entertained by pre-loaded podcasts for an entire flight to a traveler constantly comparing the lack of amenities, professionalism, and comfort of any seat on any airline to the two roundtrip business class flights I took on Emirates.

Scorpio and co-founder Sam Zaid were members of Singularity's first class, in 2009; they were challenged by Google co-founder Larry Page to come up with a plan that would, in 10 years, impact a billion people.

And there is also no doubt that Apple's devices have benefited from group infatuation, a phenomenon that has often favored a product or a class of designs based on an allegiance that the devotees themselves have difficulty defining in coherent terms, as by people willing to pay high premiums for German engineering even after decades of Consumer Reports evaluations have failed to demonstrate any stunning superiority of German cars over Hondas and Toyotas.

Within two days of making the offer public we had sold five spots and brought in $ 15,000, and by the time the class started we had sold out all 20 spots, bringing in roughly $ 58,000 (after some additional discounts we offered), and we had more people wanting to get into the course who we had to push off for the next one.

What with a doctor dragged screaming and kicking off a plane, another person in first class threatened with handcuffs if he didn't leave his seat for someone of «higher priority,» or the man reportedly stung by a scorpion that fell on him from an overhead bin.

«Recent events have brought home for me that people are more important than work, and that I need to take some time off of the day - to - day to grieve my mother, whom I buried on Friday, to reflect, to work on myself, and to focus on building out a world - class leadership team,» Kalanick wrote in the email, obtained first by Recode.

Many people may want to learn to code, but can't afford the effort of going to a class twice a week and learning at a pace set by the instructor.

It's a question faced by many western brands that over the past 15 years have flocked east, eager for the potential profits presented by a nation of 1.5 billion people with a ballooning middle class.

Paul Murphy, an Irish member of the European parliament, decried the secrecy of the negotiations, saying they had «been driven by Canadian and European multinationals and agrobusiness that want market access and access to vital public services so they can profit at the expense of working - class people.»

He addressed this problem a bit by lowering the bottom rate to 10 percent from 12 percent in the campaign plan, but it's still likely that a Trump proposal that includes these elements will result in a tax increase for millions of middle - class people, and the lower standard deduction doesn't help:

This year, the association plans to fund more anti-Airbnb research and roll out a testimonial campaign of people hurt by home sharing, «to provide a counterweight to Airbnb's strategy of presenting a unified, working - class face,» according to the group's documents.

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.

The analysis does not include an additional cost of the legislation: its repeal of the individual mandate, which the Congressional Budget Office estimates could cause as many as 13 million fewer people to have health insurance, reducing federal spending for poor and middle - class Americans» health insurance by $ 338 billion over 10 years.

Of the 2.4 billion people around the world who will become middle class consumers by 2030, two billion will come from Asia.

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.

To finally find and be with a lot of like minded people, who are educated and understand, and then to one by one watch them drop out (not out of ability but of being tired of the system) while the idiots you share a class with go on to graduate and get higher grades.

As noted above, each of the Continuing LLC Owners will also hold a number of shares of our Class B common stock equal to the number of LLC Units held by such person.

As described below, each of the Continuing LLC Owners will also hold a number of shares of Class B common stock of GoDaddy Inc. equal to the number of LLC Units held by such person.

A common frustration shared by both family offices and those hoping to work with family offices is the experience of a person misrepresenting themselves as a family office or ultra-high-net-worth individual only to find that the person is either exaggerating, lying, or simply misunderstanding the distinction between a large single family office and an upper - class family.

In October 2015, a federal judge approved a $ 10.2 million settlement for a nationwide class of persons who were «robodialed» by JPMC in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

Owned by Canadian Western Bank, Canadian Western Trust is big enough to provide world - class service but local enough to know their clients by name, with people and personal relationships at the heart of everything they do.

A lot of people are looking to get rich quick, but a more reliable method is to build wealth at a moderately swift pace by increasing your income, saving aggressively, and investing smartly in dividend stocks, index funds, and other asset classes.

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.

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.

We (collectively) did not win that fight by ripping the bible out of everyone's hands, but by a reasoned approach showing that when the bible is used to exclude and marginalize classes of people it is being employed wrongly.

What is FAR, FAR more remarkable (and perplexing) is that the world population is 20 % Muslim... and yet with 18,453 people killed by ISLAMIC Terror merely since 9/11, virtually the whole Islamic world goes nuts over a political cartoon by an older Danish cartoonist (Westergaard), or a novel by a World Class MUSLIM AUTHOR (Salman Rushdie), and that years and years later, this so - called «religion» incites the murder of these people.

By telling people that they can not obey God in this area, the bishops undermine the human dignity of the working classes, and degrade their morality further.

By contrast, the class of people who are most responsible for abuse of children is, tragically, peers and family of the children themselves, who are usually not in the celibate state.

From this angle, the middle class does not join the wealthy and the poor, they are all joined by a prior order of creation that reveals itself in the social nature of the person and the various bonds that flow from that nature.

The decision in the Hobby Lobby case helps prevent progressives from achieving their goal of making religious people into dhimmis, second - class citizens in a society governed by secular values.

By these and similar rules of social etiquette Islam guided the steps of people in backward stages of development, urging them to rise to an appropriate standard and attain the level of the more advanced social classes.

That is the Godless answer to every nation that has gone down this very same road., Multiculturalism class warfare brought to a head using a thug class created by the same people who own the machines of production., The same people own and control the rest with property taxes and income taxation.

This class of people rarely feels disoriented by rapid changes in the demographic makeup of society because they see the system working for them.

It is true of Aristotle too: the dialectic of act and potency that, for sublunary beings, is inseparable from decay and death, or the scale of essences by which all things — especially various classes of persons — are assigned their places in the natural and social order.

As for the latter, however — what could be a more natural excess for a class of people which defines itself primarily by reference to monetary earnings and material possessions?

Declaring herself a person of the left, she none theless has a sympathetic appreciation of black intellectuals and opinion makers who now call themselves conservative, although they still wage war against an older conservatism driven by racial and class prejudices.

That said, part of «the church [being] only too happy to let» the government get involved was that churches only wanted to serve the deserving poor: people with the right social graces, people who were properly grateful and avoided forms of immorality rejected by the middle class, and frankly, people who were the right color.

They create fear in the lower class by saying the conservatives will do away with welfare and then say they will keep it in place and make sure that the people continue to get what they are getting now.The Conservatives point to the 47 % who are taking some form of government handout and tell their base that this should not be so in its present state, but should be reformed.

At the Lord's Table people of all classes and races are welcome — surely a model of coexistence that is by no means common in the human city.

I only meant that as a «self - designation» both gay and straight people need to stop labeling each other and classifying themselves by their sexual orientation, and maybe seek to classify themselves the way Paul instructed people to do, as being of the class that is «in Christ.»

Believing in a system that was created by stone age men sitting around a fire telling fairy tales to scare kids and keep people in line, that was propagated by men who learned to write, and that was based on making a class of «preists» and holy men that could get money for doing nothing and that could dictate how olthers should live and molest boys and girls is stupid.

The class of persons on whom by the tradition of centuries the task fell, of bringing to light the hidden presuppositions of everyday thought, whether scientific or historical, (I refer of course to the official teachers of philosophy) were treated with a contemptuous neglect.

Socialism and communism are based on the principle that the means of producing goods and providing services — such as all factories and companies — should be owned publicly and controlled and planned by a centralized organization rather than being controlled by members of a small class of wealthy people.

As long as teachers are regarded (and regard themselves) as lay people who make their living by teaching, they can not readily transcend the class structure in the conduct of their work.

There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold; for them I will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting - houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold Relief Societies; — though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold,» is what Emerson would say, Brigitte.

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.

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.

I truly do not know how people can get by on these middle class social club versions of Christianity.