Sentences with phrase «interests of the privileged few»

Speaking in Brighton at the start of the Labour Party conference, ED Miliband will say the Bedroom Tax has become a symbol of an out of touch government standing up only for the interests of a privileged few.

The Government I lead will be driven, not by the interests of the privileged few, but by yours.

The government I lead will be driven not by the interests of the privileged few, but by yours.»

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Like the Roman Empire, the modern age will crumble from the crack of inordinate greatness beyond the interest of the many and the desire of the privileged few to sustain, and in the murky streets of ruined cities and meeting grounds of a billion humble habitations, our heroes and saints will show us how to begin history anew.

Subsequently, the whole social superstructure is reconstituted to reflect and guarantee the interests of all mankind rather than those of the privileged few.

It has been a lot of fun and very informative for me to have been involved in a few Internet forum groups these last six or seven years and I've been privileged to have met some fine folks of which I share a common interest!

A «country that works for everyone», is a country where the government does not allow private interests to come before the public interest, where access to power is democratic and not something enjoyed only by a privileged few through expensive lobbying, where in fact people can work hard and get on in life whatever the circumstances of their birth.

Without a representative cross-section, it is inevitable that the interests of the politically privileged few will predominate and prevail in debate and decisions.

Certainly everybody that I saw in my short time was extremely interested in purchasing a car and if they happen to be from the more upwardly mobile kind of middle class, they were very interested in buying not a fuel - efficient car but a hummer even, you know, pretty much following the exact same model as the American aspiration or, you know, the «American dream» model and certainly the suburbs seem to be a growing trend and if you noticed that, Philip, you know, I visited a suburb called Orange County outside of Beijing and it really looked like Orange County and they even had like the palm trees and everything and I saw these in all the cities I visited Chongqing, Chengdu, various other cities that I visited, they were ringed by suburbs and the folks who live there, you know, the privileged few were using cars to commute into the cities for work.

For a few privileged interests, those he went to school with and grew up rubbing shoulders with — the royalty of New York's banking circles — that period enabled their dynastic wealth to explode and transferred untold riches from the former middle class to the elite.