Sentences with phrase «life out of the middle class»

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«We have also experienced success in several new markets, including celebrating our first shipment of live lobster to the up - and - coming Brazilian market; expanding our value - added product reach to Australia; rolling - out a line of retail products targeting the emerging middle - class in China; and introducing Propeller Clams, a new clam species, to the sushi - hungry Asian market.»

Welfare indirectly allows many in this country to buy I - phones, flat screen TVs and cars that are nicer than those owned by the middle class with their marginal income, by paying for all of life's necessities (food, clothing, shelter and medical services) that those in the middle class pay for out of pocket.

«88 The parables, then, serve as a faithful guide to the middle class and peasant life in Palestine.89 The realism of the parables with their accurate observations on nature and life led Jeremiah to observe that many of them rose out of some accurate occurrence.90

In the light of this analysis, then, my own scenario is cautiously hopeful, depending on (1) whether a creative minority of dreamers and doers with visions of a new life - fulfilling social order really emerges in strength, (2) the alliances that can be worked out with blacks, the poor, and other minorities now excluded from major social benefits, (3) the extent to which the populist idealism of the lower middle classes and working people generally favoring the extension of rights and equality to the «little man» everywhere wins out over the reactionary fears and prejudices which establishment elites and opportunist politicians are all too willing to exploit, and (4) what takes place at the center of the political spectrum itself under the pressure of events and in response to challenges to the established system from militant seekers of change.

By rejecting the middle class lifestyle of his father, by rejecting the monastic life, and living like the poorest of the poor he started a movement, and though the movement went back to money very quickly, he did not, and they kicked him out of the order he founded because of it.

What he fails to draw out is that the British aristocracy was porous, and despite the challenges of the War of the Roses, life under the Tudors and the French revolutionary era they had allies and accomplices, drawn from the gentry and the middle classes, and a sizeable portion of the working class.

A Democrat criticizing a middle class war veteran (like Gibson) for pointing out that you are an out of touch 1 percenter is a case of people living in glass houses throwing stones.

The major policy announcement on free school meals was the obvious move in this direction — as well as being a sop to middle class voters who lost out after cuts to child benefit — but Nick Clegg's speech is full of references to policies which help in day - to - day life: the pupil premium, flexible parental leave, free childcare, a cap on social care costs.

Game Night seems to be setting up Max and Annie as a high - achieving upper - middle - class power couple, but it turns out that where real life is concerned, they're only in the middle of the pack.

That nuttiness - albeit safely couched in middle - age and upper - middle class comforts - is on display in Lawrence Kasdan's Darling Companion, a shambling and not exactly deep ensemble piece centered on a long - married couple (Diane Keaton, Kevin Kline) and the dog that comes into, and then out of, their lives.

Even more important is the dazzling role of the title figure, Val (Regina Casé), a live - in domestic blessed with terrific dialogue by writer - director Anna Muylaert, whose previous contributions include «Smoke Gets in Your Eyes,» about a cigarette - addicted lower - middle - class guitar teacher is on the outs with her two sisters.

Few have crafted stronger drama out of family conflict than A Separation director Asghar Farhadi, who apparently developed his gift for plumbing the crevices of middle - class Iranian life as early as 2006.

These qualities are to the forefront in his bracing new film, Amour, in which a middle - class French couple in their 80s, Georges and Anne Laurent, both music teachers, live out the final months of a long marriage.

At 16, the most important event in my life occurred: My family moved out of a lower - income southern California neighborhood to a middle - class community.

Illustration by Daniel Vasconcellos At 16, the most important event in my life occurred: My family moved out of a lower - income southern California neighborhood to a middle - class community.

She suspects it is because those living in poor families today have «poor health, limited access to home environments with rich language and experiences, low birth weight, limited access to high - quality pre-school opportunities, less participation in many activities in the summer and after school that middle class families take for granted, and more movement in and out of schools because of the way that the housing market operates.»

In this series, we'll explore the jobs of the future and ask how schools can help young people prepare for a landscape where middle - class life is increasingly out of reach.

The truth is, the Brazilians who complain the most are all middle - to - upper - class, exactly the ones who aren't above making a quick buck and / or getting ahead in life, even if it means cheating or treading on others, disregarding everything from ethics to social responsibility to environmental issues, and when they complain about the corrupt and expensive government, it's mainly out of jealousy.

As Passive Guy points out, «[t] he exquisite moral balancing described seems to ignore one big reality — most bookstore employees are working at minimum wage with little hope of being able earn enough from their employment to live in a pleasant residence, support a family or enjoy the even the most modest trappings of a middle - class life.

We know about an investing strategy that beats Buy - and - Hold in 102 out of 110 time - periods, an investing strategy that permits us to obtain far higher returns at dramatically less risk, an investing strategy that permits us all to retire years sooner and that would bring us out of this economic crisis if we could share it with millions of middle - class investors (if people could switch to an investment strategy that would put their retirement plans back on track, they would feel free to start spending again and businesses could start hiring again), and our first reaction is to come up with convoluted arguments as to why the best thing to do is to AVOID learning more about it and to AVOID getting the word out to the millions of middle - class people whose lives we have destroyed with our promotion of Buy - and - Hold.

Amid murmurs that the economic crisis was hurting midmarket galleries — an instance of art imitating life, with talk of the 1 percent and a dying middle class — the gallery was doing well, usually finding collectors for two - thirds of the works in each of its exhibitions and selling out the gallery's swan - song presentation of paintings by the Iranian - born artist Marjane Satrapi.

One out of five children in the world under the age of 6 lives in India — that's more than 165 million.1 Despite the country's rapidly growing middle class, only 40 percent of children attend preschool.