Sentences with phrase «class status on»
Now, two years later, having had his arrest record expunged, he's suing, and seeking class status on behalf of all arrestees forced to pay what his lawyer called a «bribe sanctioned by the government of the District of Columbia.»
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There are many ways to get to first class without breaking the bank, including using frequent flyer miles to purchase your flights or getting elite status on a particular airline to get complementary upgrades on every flight.
On Tuesday, Uber filed to appeal the class - action status of its lawsuit, The Wall Street Journal reported.
In April, users filed a lawsuit seeking class action status against Tidal that claimed the company misled its users about a Kanye West album being exclusively released on the music service.
(Class actions in Massachusetts and California challenging contract worker status at some of the on - demand companies may also alter the landscape.)
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.
«[This is like] the loser of the class trying to change his status by going after the popular kid instead of getting rid of the tape on his glasses and removing his pen holder.»
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.
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.
In a new complaint seeking class action status, two women — who are maintaining anonymity — are asking a court to force the $ 69 billion ride - hail company to change many of its driver screening and other practices on behalf of all U.S. riders who were «subject to rape, sexual assault or gender - motivated violence or harassment by their Uber driver in the last four years.»
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.»
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.
Funny how an African American, who just fifty years ago would have ridden on the back of the bus to his interview, is using the same Bible used to enslave his ancestors, to relegate those different from himself to a second class citizen status.
Nor does she find any support for a straightforward effect of social class or status groups on ideologies.
Meanwhile, high - class position reflects well on a person's worth only if it is an «achieved» status that one can claim to have attained on one's own.
On the matter of redistributing goods and helping others, Theissen argued that in early Christianity we find a merging and mutual correction of two different structures of social benevolence: that of the ancient Near Eastern authoritarian monarchies, in which charity and compassion are shown by the upper classes to the lower classes, and» that of the Greco - Roman republican townships, in which philanthropia is extended between persons of equal social status.
Let us be mindful that it is not our Muslim fellow citizens who have undermined public morality, assaulted our religious liberty, and attempted to force us to comply with their ideology on pain of being reduced to the status of second - class citizens.
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.
On this last point, middle - class, status - seeking families seem to be disturbed the most deeply by parental alcoholism.
North Carolina is about to vote on reducing gays to third - class 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.
And even though this was the twilight period of aristocracy, still the conception of learning verged on the ideal of universal knowledge, and was almost the exclusive privilege of the upper classes, automatically conferring prestige and social status on the educated man.
It invents an arbitrary line between citizen - enemies and alien enemy combatants, holding that flexible and uncertain rights to a «hearing» on their combatant status must be accorded to certain classes of combatants.
Alex had class on Tuesday so she drove to the city and checked on the status of her apartment and I took care of Hooper.
At the end of the season wenger will be in an unusual situation, in that he will only have 29 players classed as over 21, 5 of those will be keepers so I expect 1 will be sold and 2 sent out on loan again, with Huddart or iliev being able added 3Rd choice keeper status and being underage.
I know some on here like to call Giroud world class, but the true world class players don't have any real doubters of their status.
When the top - status HoustonCountry Club was return host, its members simply served cheese and crackers.Hathaway says class tastes may also be discerned on a «hard - soft «scale.
In other countries world class players like Modric, Schweinsteiger, Reus etc are the ones on 100k weekly wages but it seems in England every over-hyped english player must be on 100k, Walcott is over hyped, Sterling is over hyped it is no wonder the England national team has won nothing it's full of unworthy players who are given unnecessary superstar status!
By midday, with classes canceled and most players staring at TV sets in their apartments or dorm rooms, the status of Saturday's game wasn't on the players» minds.
He will never achieve top class status while he is in the shadow of Ronaldo and Bale, and will always be looked on as never having quite made it, like Suarez, Messi, Ronaldo, Ibrahimovich et al have done.
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.
will RVP leave if we concede CL and if we survive (i believe wengers touch and class will prevail) will he have enough faith in jack n the likes to sign on in the hopes of legendary status?
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.
Therefore, BWI does not condone silencing, tone policing, or otherwise oppressing marginalized groups, nor does BWI discriminate or permit discrimination by any member of its community against any individual on the basis of age, citizenship status, class, color, disability, gender expression, gender identity, marital status, national origin, parental status, race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation.
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.
Some of the more conspiracy theory - minded members of New York's political class wondered what the governor was up to, and if he was hoping to confuse voters and dilute the WFP vote — potentially bumping the labor - backed party from its hard - fought position on Row D, or even perhaps robbing it of ballot status altogether.
That means that details remain elusive on the status of, among other things, expanding ride - hailing outside of New York City, offering free tuition to SUNY and CUNY schools for middle - class students, and requiring local governments to come up with shared services plans.
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».
«Our pre-K class would be operated in partnership with Adirondack Community Action Programs, and we're hoping to hear from the state by late October on the status of our application,» Osborne said.
In 1983, the National Commission on Excellence in Education published a report stating, «All, regardless of race or class or economic status, are entitled to a fair chance and to the tools for developing their individual powers of mind and spirit to the utmost.»
The Health Ministry has said that it expects Ricciardi not only to put ISS on a path to fiscal stability, but also to take the necessary steps to preserve its status as a world - class research facility.
Michael Bond's article on wealth and the research of Dacher Keltner and Michael Kraus throw up some interesting hypotheses regarding the impact of class, status and money on the way we interact with each other (21 April, p 52).
OPT status can also be used by graduate students still working on their dissertation research when they're no longer taking classes or when they are enrolled for fewer than nine credit - hours per semester.
For the first study, the «local», the team recruited 857 people in the United States and asked them to self - report their perceived social status (from working to upper class on a numerical scale), as well as an objective indicator in the form of annual household income.
Having studied the group demographics on income, employment, marital status, education and race, the team were able to establish latent class segmentation of the group based on kudos - seeking food buying behaviours.
With hands - on research and internship opportunities not found anywhere else, this world - class facility will help revolutionize cybersecurity education and bolster Georgia and Augusta's status as a leading hub for cybersecurity innovation,» said Augusta University President Brooks A. Keel, PhD.
We performed a linear regression of current, self - reported HbA1c on age, years with diabetes, years on VLCD, carbohydrate intake goal, educational status, and income class.
A lawsuit filed in Dec and seeking class - action status alleges more than half the profiles on Match.com are «inactive, fake or fraudulent.»
The suit, filed at U.S. District Court in Los Angeles on Friday, seeks class - action status and alleges that because eHarmony has no matchmatching system, consumers are oftentimes hooked up with scam artists.
US NEWS - July 31 - A class action suit against Successful Match alleges that the company broke the law and its promises of confidentiality to customers on PositiveSingles.com by sharing their HIV and STD statuses on «thousands» of spinoff sites, including HIVGayMen.com, STDHookup.com and Blackpoz.com.