Sentences with phrase «from upper middle class»

These NCDs have high occurrence in India and 50 % of the occurrence has been recorded from upper middle class and rich strata.

With ABOUT SCHMIDT, Alexander Payne fixes the same acute eye he used in both CITIZEN RUTH and ELECTION to once again rip the façade of wholesome gentility from the upper middle class of the heartland of America and to show us the savagery beneath.

I come from an upper middle class family.

My SO comes from upper middle class, went to private school,.

Here is a story about a young man in my area who came from a upper middle class home, mother and father married, never divorced.

General Douglas MacArthur did not know it, but his secret weapon — or one of them — was this affable and somewhat cosseted twenty - three - year - old from the upper middle classes of exurban Bronxville, New York.

Not exact matches

«Its report said the case could revive «accusations that the criminal justice system favoured those from the middle and upper classes.»

From these statistics, and from talking to retirees and their advisers, it's fair to estimate that a typical middle - class retirement costs roughly $ 40,000 to $ 60,000 per couple per year, while an «upper middle - class» retirement costs in the range of $ 60,000 to $ 70,000 per couple per yFrom these statistics, and from talking to retirees and their advisers, it's fair to estimate that a typical middle - class retirement costs roughly $ 40,000 to $ 60,000 per couple per year, while an «upper middle - class» retirement costs in the range of $ 60,000 to $ 70,000 per couple per yfrom talking to retirees and their advisers, it's fair to estimate that a typical middle - class retirement costs roughly $ 40,000 to $ 60,000 per couple per year, while an «upper middle - class» retirement costs in the range of $ 60,000 to $ 70,000 per couple per year.

Men from the middle and upper classes went to these independent coffee houses to discuss literature and debate politics.

It becomes a vote - buying enterprise financed by transfers from the minority upper classes to the majority middle and lower classes.

Likewise, Clinton would limit itemized deductions, raise the estate tax and increase taxes on capital gains (profits from the sale of stocks and other assets held at least a year); these are concentrated among the wealthy and upper middle class.

Most middle - class taxpayers would land in the 12 percent bracket; upper - middle - class households go from the 25 percent bracket to 22 percent, or from 33 percent to 24 percent, or from 39.6 percent to 35 percent.

They are much more tied into the liberal upper - middle class in academia, entertainment and their friends from college.

It is not uncommon for middle - and upper - class Americans to seek out diverse neighborhoods and to worry aloud that their children are not encountering enough people from other races.

Middle and upper class couples limit their families, oftentimes because BOTH parents have careers they don't want to be derailed from for too long.

This, BTW, is a great strategy to keep poor people poor... and to keep middle class people (the few that are left) from being able to strive to be upper class.

But his key analytical model here, presented as a novel insight» that Progressivism was a movement of the middle class caught between perceived threats from the upper class above and the laboring and farming classes below» has been a commonplace of historiographical analysis since the 1950s.

Meta - analyses also indicate that young people of low socioeconomic status benefit more from attending these schools than do students from the middle and upper classes.

In the upper and middle middle - class parish, turnover of parishioners, from the writer's own experience, is nearly 20 per cent a year.

I believe that when people espouse the values of a mother or wife exclusively being a homemaker, they are longing for a perceived simpler and easier time as opposed to truth, elevating a nostalgic look at motherhood from the standpoint of the post-war American dream of the white, upper - middle - class rather than Scripture.

Think of the gulf that separates the fundamental attitudes toward drinking of a certain upper - class Episcopal church with its occasional «sherry parties» after services from the attitudes of a middle - class Baptist church with its annual «temperance speaker.»

Liberated from food laws, these probably economically upper middle class Christians had become gluttonous.

Such awareness will include a prophetic criticism of American feminism when it is too narrow in scope, when it demands that the power of determining and directing social goals and structures be shared with middle - and upper - class American women while other women and groups are still excluded from that realization.

The schools are good there, they said, which is true, and also a euphemism for an incalculable range of social and cultural benefits that flow from being raised in the upper middle class.

The successful upper middle class now lives at a distance from everyone else.

Many of Medjugorje's American visitors come from the affluent upper - middle class.

Unfortunately (I guess), i am from a upper / middle class, so I did lost couple friends over «home birth» and «churchy» issues.

What about mothers from the Philippines, Mexico, Guatemala and elsewhere who leave their children behind to raise the children of America's middle - and upper - classes; are they good mothers?

It seems to me that a lot of the excitement around noncognitive skills comes from middle class and upper - middle class parents who want to know how their children can be as successful as possible in an ever more competitive world.

From 1983 to 1992, I collected data on the pregnancy and childbirth experiences of 100 middle and upper - middle class mainstream pregnant women and mothers, and on the health professionals (physicians, nurses, midwives, childbirth educators) who care for them, through observation and interviews in hospitals, offices, and homes.

People who belong to the enlightened, cosmopolitan, middle and upper classes often argue that right - wing populism is the result of a demagoguery that is especially attractive to uneducated people from the lower classes.

Functionally it restricts those who do not move in middle or upper - middle class circles from travelling freely, or forces them to commit fraud to do so.)

In excerpts from the interviews posted online, it sounds like the 23 - year - old is looking to make apologies and mend her ways.Growing up in New Jersey, Dupre says, she was a «happy» upper middle class kid.

Shah's journey into politics is a far cry from the PPE - at - Oxford template of the traditional upper - middle - class career politician.

Cuomo said preventing upper - middle - class and wealthier taxpayers from using the deduction will help drive them out of the state and put more of a tax burden on lower - income earners.

The WAMC event drew a stereotypical public radio crowd — upper middle class, upper middle - aged, and overwhelmingly white — but sprinkled in the former bank lobby that hosted Bharara's stage were representatives of the Business Council of New York State, several other longtime lobbyists, Albany County executive Dan McCoy and Assemblyman John McDonald, a Democrat from Cohoes.

In contrast, supporters of his brother say David Miliband would attract voters away from the coalition with a platform less alienating for the middle and upper class.

However, Janet Bowers, a math education researcher at San Diego State University in California, notes that 70 % of the subjects came from middle - and upper - middle class families and questions whether the result can be generalized.

This means offering entering Ph.D. s a normal upper - middle - class existence, that is, remuneration sufficient to purchase a house at age 32 (the national average), support 2.3 children from birth through college, and provide for a reasonable retirement income.

Different types of skirts were used by the women in the history but in Middle Ages the upper class women were used to wear the long skirts and the diameter of those skirts was around three meters in diameter from the bottom.

Whereas Chanel had no formal education but a great deal of experience of the ways of the world, Schiaparelli was from Italian upper middle - class academic stock, which gave her the assurance to make fashion not just amusing but outrageously so.

Likewise, it could be the other way round and you are the girl from an upper - middle - class family, while your man has a working class.

students lived in fraternities, and most came from a middle - or upper - middle - class background.

Students who have signed up fall between the range of 21 - 27 years old, mostly coming from upper and middle class backgrounds.

I have taught at schools on both ends of the spectrum, from at - risk to schools who serve mostly upper - middle class.

Perhaps surprisingly, SeekingArrangement said many of its student members do not, in fact, hail from low income families: 56 percent come from middle and upper - middle class families, while 20 percent are from high income families.

Bridget Cardigan is shocked to learn that she is on the verge of losing her home and comfortable upper middle class lifestyle when her husband Don is downsized from his job.

The subject — a disastrous honeymoon on the Dorset coast in 1962 — can only be explained by digging into the backgrounds of Florence (Saoirse Ronan), a bright, rebellious violinist from upper - middle - class parents (Samuel West, Emily Watson), and Edward (Billy Howle), an earnest history graduate snootily regarded by his in - laws as a country bumpkin.

Enough Said is a romantic comedy - drama from Nicole Holofcener, the writer - director of other critically acclaimed films exploring the daily travails of mostly upper middle - class affluent women (and men) in such as Lovely & Amazing and Friends with Money — something that invites comparisons to the works of Woody Allen often.

She is one of the poorest kids in a student body drawn mostly from the upper - middle class but finds friendship with an overweight girl even lower than her on the economic ladder.