Sentences with phrase «lesser class of»

Treated as a lesser class of person by her former companions, Sara instead befriends her fellow servants and turns to the power of imagination in order to maintain hope for the future.

What can you expect from a lesser class of people?

Common stock is a lesser class of stock than preferred stock.

Not exact matches

In 1996, Buffett created Class B shares worth 1 / 30th of Class A shares, but with lesser voting rights, to stop fee - hungry managers from creating «unit trusts» that sliced up Class A shares for smaller investors seeking «Berkshire look - alikes.»

In other words: Don't feel guilty for heading out to that afternoon spin class: you'll see productivity benefits at work — and less of a bum print in your chair.

In an analysis of the changing shape of the American middle class, Pew Research Center divided the population into three groups: Lower - income Americans made less than 2/3 of the median household income, middle - income households had incomes between 2/3 and 200 % of the median, and upper - income households had income more than twice the median income.

So far, those concerns have had much less impact on sales in emerging markets, where entrance to the middle class includes consumption of higher - calorie, higher - fat food products that are only available with more disposable income.

Since the Italian public opinion does not want a euro exit, the political class will probably decide that the former is better, and that it is less humiliating to be in a conditional lending program run by one of their own - the ECB President Mario Draghi.

Despite early signs that a fast - food diet is no healthier in Beijing than it is in Boston, consumers who are new to middle - class dining seem less concerned about the health risks of the high - fat, high - sodium fare that many Americans now seek to avoid.

The belief that venture capital performance has been poor, and a desire to diversify internationally, have prompted many institutional investors to move their money out of the asset class, leaving «fewer and fewer venture funds with less and less to invest,» says Steve Hurwitz, a Boston - based lawyer and co-founder of an annual venture capital conference in Quebec City.

Another improvement on the Nimitz design, the AAG on the Ford class will help accommodate a broader range of aircraft and offer a less jarring landing than the Navy's current Mk - 7 Mod 3 and Mk - 7 Mod 4 designs.

That formula works in the huge U.S. market, but doesn't translate as well to Canada, which has a tenth of the population and less stratification in its economic classes.

As president of Y Combinator, of which he was part of the first class, Altman has gained popularity through a nuanced, founder - focused personality, less brash than many founders and venture capitalists, and Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham famously said that «Sam is, along with Steve Jobs, the founder [he] refer [s] to most when... advising startups.»

«That is consistent with the theme of being less insular, reaching out, finding the best in class to make their company best in class,» King says.

Industry Average sites have less than half the number of pages than Best in Class.

While he may be a «world - class player» — in President - elect Donald Trump's words — the financial metrics of his time as Exxon's CEO reveal some less than stellar results compared with peers.

They have been less successful on the extremes, in countries with strict gender roles, and also in places like France, where infidelity is a long - recognized feature of the political classes and a staple of media coverage.

He says the actions of central banks «attempting to spark economic growth» are «severely punishing the world's savers and creating incentives to reach for yield, pushing investors into less liquid asset classes and increased levels of risk, with potentially dangerous financial and economic consequences.»

By shifting the risks away from banks and to asset managers, Gross argues that the risk of herd behavior that causes a liquidity event in markets has been shifted away from the professional investing class and to a more amateur, less - informed, skittish class of investor: the public.

Governments of all hues have failed to address the yawning gap between the ruling class and the less privileged.

Stock market Stronach had little incentive to eliminate its dual - class share structure, which allowed him to control the company despite holding less than 1 % of its equity.

The power of Harvard B - school's class of 1949 was nothing less than extraordinary.

When they do choose to exercise their freedom and work outside the office, they find they suffer as second - class citizens in the shadows of their less inventive and more conservative colleagues.

By then, the power and influence of its members were nothing less than extraordinary: nearly half of the class had already climbed to the titles of chairman, CEO, or chief operating officer.

While there are probably a few things Millennials themselves can do to beat back perfectionism (for the love of all that is holy, spend less time on social media, for instance), the underlying causes of this shift suggested by the study, including an increasingly terrifying scramble for a shrinking number of slots in the middle class, are something we're all going to have to address together.

Rebalancing involves disposing of portfolio holdings in asset classes that have risen in value and using the proceeds to buy more of your asset classes that have risen less in order to restore a desired balance between stocks and bonds.

He gave the example of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who he would argue has less power today than five years ago because of economic turmoil caused by sanctions and a middle class of an unprecedented size and aspirations.

«We are changing the rules for three per cent of private corporations, because the wealthiest Canadians should not be able to use private corporations to pay less tax than the middle class,» Morneau said.

Rents for so - called Class A office spaced soared 17 % last year, but are still half or less of those in London and New York.

Since they are the ones getting into the less - exploited asset classes and strategies, they are also not achieving the economies of scale of a State Street SPDR ETF family or BlackRock's iShares, which can charge less based on massive asset bases, said Michael Rawson, ETF analyst at Morningstar.

She tells the AP that to date, the academy averages less than 20 African - American women graduating each year out of a class of 1,000 students.

Borrowers who are out of college or are attending classes less than half - time can consolidate their federal student loans.

So a student in the bottom half of his class at Harvard University might be less confident in his abilities than a student in the top half of his class at a less prestigious institution.

The composition of the asset class changes dramatically, with bitcoin comprising less than half of the total market cap as assets including ether, xrp, and dash skyrocket in price.

Virgin Atlantic's wording for its mid-level seating is quite clever: by calling it premium economy rather than business class or something similar, it makes it seem less of a step up even though there is quite a large price difference.

As the gap between wealthy and poor Americans widens, the middle class is becoming less of an appealing target for nationwide retailers.

However at a less competitive school, Hartwick College, many in the top third of their class earned math and science degrees and went on to successfully pursue careers in those fields.

Whatever is the current cause of the rise of prices in the housing market, when computed as the mortgage cost in labour time in terms of the average weekly salary, residential properties, with the exception of the 1988 - 1991 period, are now clearly less affordable for middle - class Canadians than they were for the last five decades.

Although the long - term returns on real estate are less than common stocks as a class (because an apartment building can't keep expanding), real estate can throw off large amounts of cash relative to your investment.

RingCentral Office offers a feature rich, business class VoIP phone system for far less than the cost of a traditional phone system.

Wei said that during the past year the company has strived to meet «demand for high - end and healthy products of the middle class,» with its premium soup series containing less additives to cater to health - conscious consumers.

When the shares of our Class B common stock represent less than 5 % of combined voting power of our Class A common stock and Class B common stock, the then - outstanding shares of Class B common stock will automatically convert into shares of Class A common stock.

All outstanding shares of our Class B common stock will convert into shares of our Class A common stock when the shares of our Class B common stock represent less than 5 % of the combined voting power of our Class A common stock and Class B common stock.

Subject to the provisions of our 2015 Plan, the administrator will determine the other terms of stock appreciation rights, including when such rights become exercisable and whether to pay any amount of appreciation in cash, shares of our Class A common stock, or a combination thereof, except that the per share exercise price for the shares to be issued pursuant to the exercise of a stock appreciation right must be no less than 100 % of the fair market value per share on the date of grant.

«We are seeing that our focus on the middle class, by putting more money in the pockets of hard working families, and giving less advantages to the wealthiest, is growing the economy,» Trudeau said, as he also attempted to distract the media horde from his finance minister's loose interpretation of what constitutes a conflict of interest.

But it is a different story if we use the low income measure, which looks at the gap between poor children and the middle class, calculating the number of children who live in a family which has less than one half of the income of a comparable middle income family.

For farmers like Wiens, Class 7 means an opportunity to produce more milk, albeit for less money: he's now receiving about 73 Canadian cents (57 US cents) per liter instead of about 80 Canadian cents previously.

Pursuant to the Amalgamation, Huayra and Angel AcquisitionCo will amalgamate and the amalgamated company will become a wholly - owned subsidiary of Angel and Angel will acquire all of the 40,388,565 Class A common shares of Huayra that are expected to be issued and outstanding immediately prior to the implementation of the Amalgamation in exchange for a like number of post-Subdivision common shares of Angel at a deemed issue price per share of not less than Cdn.

These shares usually have less voting rights than the Class A Shares, which are the preferred share by most investors, although the company or corporation has the right to designate which classification of shares has the most voting rights and when they are issued to the shareholders.

The acceptance rate of less than 2 percent is lower than Harvard College's 5.9 percent for the coming year's freshman class.