Sentences with phrase «class status for»

Performance and EPA stats still remain undisclosed, but Acura anticipates best - in - class status for both.

There is enough mother - shaming from both sides of this battle to keep women in their second - class status for good.

The plaintiffs are seeking class status for those who purchased the Gerber products in California over the last four years.

It also calls for distant second class status for all infidels under Muslim control.

Not exact matches

The lawsuit, launched by a customer, is aiming for class - action status.

The brewer was sued earlier this year in a complaint that sought class action status for MillerCoors allegedly misleading customers.

In September, in the most worrisome setback yet for 1099 - reliant sharing - economy companies, a federal judge granted class status to Uber drivers, vastly upping the stakes on its legal defense and the likelihood it will have to settle.

For example, across nineteen Techstars classes in its four year history, over 70 % of all Techstars graduates have raised capital (Techstars publishes an amazing chart that lists every company in every class and their fundraising status as well as employee count).

Lawyers will seek class action status for the case and plan to add defendants, he said.

A lawyer for ride service Uber, which has been sued by drivers who contend they should be considered employees and are seeking class action status, said it would be preferable to have a trial just on the three drivers who filed the complaint in order to avoid setting a risky precedent.

While Starbucks coffee can be an everyday indulgence for urbanites in the West, with a price tag of 30 yuan (US$ 4.43) for a medium latte in Shanghai, it is still a brand with plenty of snob appeal — a status symbol for the emerging Chinese middle class and a «liquid luxury» for an average worker.

Like the other unpaid interns, the Condé Nast underpaid workers will seek class action status for their case.

The Hearst suit is going less well for the plaintiffs, as a judge has denied them class action status, but is allowing the suit to proceed.

More than 60 countries have now successfully negotiated what is known as Approved Destination Status (ADS) from Beijing, putting them on the list of group travel destinations for the increasingly affluent Chinese middle class.

Invidious discrimination exists when inherent equals — for example, all human beings — are treated unequally based on sub-categories that bigots assert to reduce the moral status of the disfavored classes, placing them beneath the favored.

What is patent in the law in England is the effort of the jurists and parliamentarians to maintain the status quo and upper - class status and privilege until the industrial revolution, when the lower classes were eventually able to win the franchise and some [place] for themselves in governance after years of effort and much resistance.

Status is the «meritocratic» replacement for class.

Critics of this argument, including Douthat, often point out that status has a way of becoming a proxy for class.

Nor does she find any support for a straightforward effect of social class or status groups on ideologies.

That these abstractions appear natural and ineluctable — and at times even have attained the lofty status of Kantian transcendence — is the result of effective habits of thought that favor a certain class of proto - abstractions.7 (See MFF for detailed and compelling development of this thesis.)

These people would not allow any religion but Christianity to be seen in a good light if taught in classes in the USA, when history proves that, Christianity is the reason so many people in the USA have been motivated to lynch black people, make gays second class citizens, fought against woman being allowed to vote, hunted down and killed others from different denominations, force all other's to pay for their «work» whether in the USA or around the world through tax exempt status, gifts or «Faith - based initiatives».

The considerable number of Muslims who had settled in China had laid a secure foundation for Islam, but during those seven hundred years the Muslims had retained their alien status as a special class which preserved its own language, customs, and manners and was never fully integrated with the Han people.

He also faulted churches for coalescing around distinctions of class, race, education, and economic status rather than welcoming outcasts — represented in the biblical passage by «foreigners» and «eunuchs» — on equal terms with ourselves as children of God.

According to this analysis, those in the ruling class develop and maintain information and ideas that justify their status, and they do it in ways that make it difficult for ordinary people to recognize that they are being exploited and victimized.

Desperate, angry, and galvanized pro-sod activists learned that if they could make a compelling case that they were born gay, they could become eligible for minority Status as a Suspect Class under the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

The rich don't seem to like it, but when I asked people why, I received wildly varying explanations for its second - class status.

His naive use of class differences to identify excellence («Ministers of the better class are not satisfied to accept the rural churches») and his explicit call for theological schools to train persons to minister specifically to the rich suggest that this interest in theology, which is otherwise so thoroughly underemployed in Harper's proposed reform of theological schooling, is vulnerable to ideological misuse as a «cover» that at once obscures and legitimates an underlying concern to secure the churches» social status.

For example, in 1987 a class action suit was filed against Jim and Tammy Bakker on behalf of some 161,000 donors to the Bakker's PTL programs who had paid $ 1,000 each to become «lifetime partners,» a status which included free accommodations at the PTL theme park.

The aristocratic position is that refinement of taste is for an elite class of «gentlefolk»; in fact, it is regarded as a mark of status and belongs only to a select few.

Until recently, the dominant Catholic Church did little to condemn the greed of the ruling class; it opted for the peace and order of the status quo rather than for the justice and turmoil of social change.

But it's worth noting that no one is calling for Evangelicals to be relegated to second - class - citizen status.

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Nonetheless, despite being classed as homegrown at present, if new regulations come into play — in which players must have been affiliated to the FA or FAW for three years prior to their 18th birthday, changed from their 21st — Song's status as homegrown will therefore be removed.

Despite his cult hero status among the Anfield faithful, and his apparently world - class standing in the game, Liverpool have been slow out of the blocks with a new contract for the 23 - year - old defender.

The classic situation is for a city to havethree clubs: top - status for the elite, middle - class for the strivers and justplain folks, and the minority club for the Jews.

Bellerin, not many you'd swap him for, just needs the years or silverware to cement world class status.

This exceptionally gifted 20 - year - old has risen to world class status in a very short space of time since making his debut for Borussia Dortmund, and has recently become the most expensive German player of all time with a lucrative # 31million move to Dortmund's rivals Bayern Munich.

If you look at the whole goal - scorer thing from high up there are only 2 guys who get close to a god - like «guaranteed goals» status; Ronaldo and Messi and even they have the benefit of world class team mates, 30 odd «easy» matches a season where they can fill their boots, operating from a stable system for a long period of time now etc..

For example, Arsenal midfielder Mesut Ozil, who had a rather mixed season in 2013 - 14, is part of the team because there can be no doubt on his world - class status and what he achieved during his three years at Real Madrid prior to his move to the Gunners last summer.

A figure that is making Florentino Perez tremble in light of the legendary status of the name Santiago Bernabéu, while Pallotta has no doubts to extract maximum profit from a potential partnership which will guarantee revenues for Roma as a world class club.

It's not as easy (easy in football terms) as chucking down 40 million for someone like Ozil; he'd been doing it for years, already claiming the world class status in his spell at Real Madrid.

The main reason people object to this practice is that, starting in the Victorian era, middle - class status could only be conferred on those who had the resources to create separate living quarters for their young.

One of the three major classes of immunoglobulin occurring in human colostrum and milk, secretory IgA, has been found in significantly higher concentrations in the milk of mothers of preterm infants compared with milk from mothers of term infants.3Skin - to - skin contact between mothers and preterm infants in this sample may have promoted maternal production of protective antibodies specific to the nosocomial flora of the NICU.9 The provision of human milk may enable preterm, VLBW infants to compensate for their inherently immature immune status.

It corresponds to the worst fears of single advocate Bella DePaulo, who has written that even when gay and lesbian people gain true marriage equality, «all those people who are single — whether gay or straight or any other status — will still remain second class citizens,» wanting for the tax breaks and legal dispensations and next - of - kin rights enjoyed by their married peers.

The group, which seeks class - action status for its case, is asking California to ban all marketing of Happy Meal toys.

Objective A study of preterm children found an IQ advantage among those who were breastfed as infants after controlling for maternal social class and educational status.

So if our choice is to continue the dismal school food status quo because «that's all kids will eat,» or knowingly lose some kids now to Flaming Hot Cheetos and Cokes with an eye toward those impressionable, incoming kindergarteners and all the classes that will follow them, I can live with sacrificing a few for the many.

In doing so, Macmillan pays specific attention to the role of concepts such as honour and masculinity and the overarching interaction between these archaic codes of behaviour and the social changes occurring at that time: «As Europe went through its rapid social changes in the last part of the nineteenth century, honour became both an attribute that the old landowning classes could cling to with increasing determination as something that distinguished them from the newly prosperous middle classes and, for the socially ambitious, a mark of a higher and better social status.»

His idea of «rottamare» («scrapping») the entire political class had an extremely wide impact on public opinion and soon became a slogan for all those who wanted to contest the status quo in Italian politics.

«Based upon that brief, last - minute phone conversation, the plan is unacceptable and continues to create a second - class citizen status for FDNY firefighters and NYPD police officers, who risk their lives every day to keep New Yorkers safe,» the statement said.