Sentences with phrase «class people live»

It also has some significant environmental justice and urban quality of life benefits by reducing pollution at urban ports where many poor and working - class people live and work.

Hoffman plays a run - down looking Mickey, who has managed to become a part of the close - knit community that is «God's Pocket», where working class people live out their lives in a simple yet happy way.

Many working class people live in working class towns and are of that class from generations back.

With the turquoise waters of the Caribbean sparkling below and a white sandy beach beneath, this majestic city served as the home to nobles and high priests, while lower class people lived around the city in thatched wooden huts.

This exhibition explores a selection of Whistler's etchings and lithographs describing major European cities, their waterways, and the working class people living there.

Not exact matches

You could focus on transporting seniors to medical appointments locally, or, if you live in an area that's some distance from a city, you could focus on driving people long distances to specialist appointments at world - class hospitals.

Stiglitz told us that this decades - old debate about how to balance the creation of short - term and long - term value is recently gaining new life in the US because of the venomous class class tensions and ugly politics arising out of income inequality, and because people in positions of power are looking at the big picture and realizing that something has to change.

In a 564 - person trial, patients whose ovarian cancer recurred (and who had already started treatment with chemotherapy) given Rubraca, part of a new class of cancer drugs called «PARP» inhibitors, lived, on median, for double the amount of time without their disease getting even worse compared with those given a placebo.

«So it definitely wasn't as big of a transition as I thought it might be, because we get to take classes with and study with people and live in the dorm with people who are all your age, but then still get to be on a regular - aged college campus and be involved with all of the regular campus events,» Corinne said.

The Board and the Executive Leadership Team are confident that Dara is the best person to lead Uber into the future building world - class products, transforming cities, and adding value to the lives of drivers and riders around the world while continuously improving our culture and making Uber the best place to work.

It would certainly hurt the daily life of American middle - class people, and the American companies, and the financial markets.»

«My own life experience has given me a unique perspective on the plight of working - class American people,» he said.

Indeed, persuasiveness in the workplace — and in life — is such a coveted skill that people read books, take courses, and attend speaking classes to get it.

«There are people who came to me that say they got promotions because they came to my class, people who say they feel a lot better physically mentally and emotionally and people whose marriage lives are improved.»

Richard Florida, the urban studies theorist and author of «The Rise of the Creative Class» recently cited three particular Boulder ingredients that could help explain its start - up density: «talented people and a high quality of life that keeps them around, technological expertise, and an open - mindedness about new ways of doing things, which often comes from a strong counterculture.»

«Even though extant research has identified numerous predictors of people's happiness and well being, most of these factors represent relatively stable aspects of an individual's life, such as the cultural environment in which one is raised or resides and demographics such as age, education, social class, marital status, and religion,» write the researchers.

By investing our resources in our people, we are creating a world - class global infrastructure for the health - care and life science industries.

If you want to build wealth and retire early, don't live a middle class lifestyle, and don't care what other people think.

As millions of people were unwrapping their fancy new iPhone Xes on Christmas morning, thousands of users with older phones were signing on to class action lawsuits following reports that the company was purposefully slowing down older handsets to save battery life.

To achieve this, the panels pointed to the importance of increasing dialogue between academia and business on the development of curricula to have business people teach classes but also to give students chances to experience business life through internships.

Maybe the person earning $ 300,000 a year needs to reevaluate what a middle class life style is and review their goals.

«When students come into the university, they should look around the room because the people in those classes are going to be in their lives for the rest of their life.

Disability Rights Advocates, on behalf of the Independent Living Resource Center and two people who use wheelchairs, filed a class - action lawsuit today against Lyft.

Even in Canada, we do have to make an effort to have that middle class life and retirement life and plenty of people who had two professional incomes did not save nearly enough and / or make the right financial moves, and struggle in retirement even with pensions.

As CEO and founder of the Canfield Training Group, I have personally helped 1000s of thousands of people become multi-millionaires, business leaders, best - selling authors, leading sales professionals, successful entrepreneurs, and world - class athletes while creating balanced, fulfilling and healthy lives.

In March, Disability Rights Advocates, on behalf of the Independent Living Resource Center and two people who use wheelchairs, filed a class - action lawsuit today against Lyft.

«The Board and the Executive Leadership Team are confident that Dara is the best person to lead Uber into the future building world - class products, transforming cities, and adding value to the lives of drivers and riders around the world while continuously improving our culture and making Uber the best place to work,» Uber's board said in a statement late on Aug. 29.

He's personally helped hundreds of thousands of people become multi-millionaires, business leaders, best - selling authors, leading sales professionals, successful entrepreneurs, and world - class athletes while creating balanced, fulfilling and healthy lives.

Lee's plans are not silver bullets, but they can be part of an economic agenda that can appeal to persuadable Hispanics and African Americans (who — due to residency patterns — are more likely to live near people who are economically struggling) and working - class whites.

The murderer on - the - run preacher in The Apostle who founds a church where class and status make no difference, a congregation of displaced misfits who are poor and poorer, dumb and dumber, black and white, male and female, and fatter and fatter still, is telling people who need to hear (because they can't read) what they most need to know to turn their lives around: They can be saved, despite it all, if they believe in Jesus and «Holy Ghost power.»

Often it is people who live in middle - class or affluent neighborhoods that are relatively free of violent crime who insist on holding a «root - cause» seminar while people are dying in the streets.

A year ago, I found myself in a class full of people courageously standing at the front of the room to share story after story of how alcohol played a part in their lives.

Recently it was observed that novelist Anne Tyler «writes about middle - class people trying to endure life in Baltimore.»

In a commencement speech, Admiral William McRaven provoked graduates from the University of Texas with this exhortation: «If every one of you changed the lives of just 10 people, and each one of those folks changed the lives of another 10 people — just 10 — then in six generations this class will have changed the lives of the entire population of the world, eight billion people.»

Living in low - income housing, teaching free literacy classes to refugees, setting up basketball camps for bored inner - city kids: all of it had a few costs for me personally, sure, but the holy buzz of pats on the back from friends and church people, and the feeling that I was the only person really getting what Jesus was saying — this more than made up for doing without.

It's a small programme sofar, with only three thousand families enrolled in a city that has more than two million people living below the official poverty line — a line above what was called middle - class sixty years ago.

The very fact that one can have a class of human beings and that this class of persons has real human rights is but one manifestation of the many self - contradictions at the heart of the individualistic concept of life.

According to Rah, «fifty years ago, if you were asked to describe a typical Christian in the world, you could confidently assert that person to be an upper middle - class, white male, living in an affluent and comfortable Midwest suburb.

And it is apparent in the recurrent themes of returning to the natural, to the soil, to simpler forms of life, and to the elemental experiences of common people, that manifest themselves in folk music, communes, handicrafting, and classes in organic gardening.

Working - class people in the 1960s, an era of less material comfort than today, when surveyed largely expressed satisfaction with their lives and their communities.

It is commonly said that when apparently successful young people — honor students, athletes, class leaders — take their own lives, they do so because they feel enormous pressure to live up to the expectations of those around them.

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.

Now this doesn't mean that the Republicans should do NOTHING on immigration, but it does mean that their economic agenda should focus on issues that would help people in the two middle quartiles (and the last quartile) get what Reihan Salam called «the basics of a dignified middle - class life — affordable high - quality medical care, education, and housing» With that in mind, here is a partial (and I'm not sure totally compatible) list of policies that Republicans should be looking at:

The answer, of course, has been that poor people must be raised from poverty and that the expectations of middle class people for the good things of life must be met.

Speaking very roughly, it refers to the second - class citizenship of Jews and Christians» the so - called «People of the Book»» living in the House of Islam.

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.

A very caring and generous (real man) just FUNDED AND OPENED a large cancer center in my city that will save the lives of many poor, middle class, and rich, which WILL provide jobs to many people and not just doctors.

Typically messed up people and messed up middle class lives make an interesting story when there is no revenge for which one needs to make retribution, or when there is no obvious injustice to which human dignity requires courageous defiance in defense what is right.

On the other hand, middle - class people tend to live almost completely for the future and have considerable capacity to make sacrifices today in the hope for a better tomorrow.

By this I mean that they have less control over their lives, less latitude in decision - making, and less influence over political, educational, and economic institutions which impinge upon their lives, than is the case with people in the middle classes.