Sentences with phrase «lower class struggles»

It takes place in a cyberpunk world where the ruling class is waited on hand and foot by machines and the lower class struggles to survive in ghettos.

Not exact matches

First, substantial direct or indirect wealth transfers from the state sector to Chinese households will unleash a surge in household consumption as household income rises (and because the interest on bank deposits is an important source of income for most middle and lower middle class households, if the authorities reduce interest rates, as struggling borrowers are demanding, China actually moves in the wrong direction).

Basically, the lack of a Republican agenda that takes into account the struggles of much of the lower - middle - class makes it easier for Democrats....

Yeah, fasting and praying so that health care can be denied sick children, so that taxes can be lowered on the rich and raised on struggling middle - class families... praying that education loan programs be gutted and that social services for people in need get eliminated.

If you're wondering about the cost, note that Tobias has never played above Class A, was just promoted above Low - A for the first time last summer, and struggled at High - A.

The artistic team — veterans of Richard Foreman's Ontological - Hysteric Theater, the infamous Velvet Hammer burlesque troupe, Mark Morris Dance Company, Fischerspooner, and recent CalArts graduates — will rigorously collaborate to create a singular vision of power struggle; to rise above stereotypes and caricatures and offer up a deeply textured, abstract and heartfelt voice of the American lower class.

«Our recent enlightenment from class has been getting down low and hugging Avery when she's having a tough time or power struggling.

As the current protest has grown, it has rekindled a desire for change amongst lower - working class citizens, as their daily struggle has finally returned to centre - stage of political debate.

The economic argument is debatable and opinions differ, but do you think the large numbers of struggling upstaters enjoy the high taxes, ever increasing fees (example: the cost to have your vehicle inspected DOUBLED from 2010 to 2011 and is now one of the highest in the nation) and endless financial burdens they as lower and middle class people endure while the rich bankers and CEOs downstate laugh at them?

A young woman juggling an entry - level administrative job and classes at a community college; a divorced dad working 40 hours a week as a custodian to help support his two kids; a veteran trying to make a living back home after serving our country overseas: They, and millions of other hard - working Americans, struggle to make ends meet because their jobs pay low wages.

RIP Jerry Birbach, a Queens firebrand whose struggle to block a proposed low - income housing project in his Forest Hills neighborhood in 1972 augured a white middle - class backlash to the liberal urban agenda and helped propel the late former Gov. Mario Cuomo's political career.

Whereas in «Deliverance», the person of perceived lower class asserts his dominance by violating Bobby («squeal like a pig») in the woods, therefore transforming class struggle into class warfare: Gina (Kiele Sanchez), a Georgian just like the hicks in the Boorman film, intimidates Cliff and Cydney when the country woman processes a goat into food, where she violates the animal (that Nick, played by Timothy Olyphant, had slain) with her hands for its innards.

It is a story at once about Eastern Europe and a story about the world's «lower classes» and their monumental struggle against inertia and their past.

In Mommy, Anne Dorval delivers one of the best lead performances of the year as a mother struggling to care for and understand her violent son amidst the more common struggles that lower - middle class families face.

There's an element of class struggle in his pronouncement, and throughout the movie; the circus is «low,» the opera is «high,» and ne'er the twain shall meet.

Gomes employed a team of journalists to devise a screenplay that derives from real life experiences of the country's struggling lower classes, all of which are narrated by Scheherazade, the memorable protagonist in the original material as he attempts to distract a tyrannical king.

So the struggle continues to make America a place where black people and black institutions are respected; where integration is viewed through the prism of pluralist acceptance; and where low - income and working - class black families have the power to secure the kind of education they desire for their children.

If scores are low for the whole class, or if some students struggle even though you suspect they know the material, reteach and retest.

In my experience as a former teacher, I was able to manage a class of 30 + honors students with ease, had some trouble with classes of 25 general ed kids, and struggled mightily to keep control of a class of 12 - 15 students with a history of behavior problems and other low - level special education needs.

According to the White House Fact Sheet on Obama's educational plan, children from low - income families are less likely to have access to pre-kindergarten programs, and middle - class families also struggle to afford private pre-school programs, yet these programs are critical to children's long - term school success.

For low - scoring students at the high school, Lamkin said classes are built into their schedule to help them with the areas they struggle in.

Nearly one out of two families in the struggling lower - middle class is headed by an adult who has attended college.

Millions of struggling low - income and middle - class parents around the country are desperately seeking more and better educational options.

Instead, it is by complying with our state constitution and restoring a uniform system of fully funded public schools so that every student has an opportunity to receive a quality education including a fully qualified teacher and low class sizes so that struggling students can get the help they need to succeed in school and succeed in life.

together we can restore school funding and lower class sizes so struggling kids can finally get the help they need to succeed in school and succeed in life

Schools will have an incentive to place struggling students in lower - level classes without standardized assessments School systems may hesitate placing students in Regents classes beyond the basic five needed for graduation so that their performance on Advanced Regents examinations will not negatively impact evaluations.

b) Schools will have an incentive to place struggling students in lower - level classes without standardized assessments School systems may hesitate placing students in Regents classes beyond the basic five needed for graduation so that their performance on Advanced Regents examinations will not negatively impact evaluations.

Lucy, a lower - middle - class Chinese Australian teen, wins a prestigious scholarship to an exclusive all - girls school, but she struggles among the mean girls.

With a focus on Ludwig's younger years, Tezuka depicts what life was like for a young, struggling artist in a time when those in a higher social class used and abused those of lower class.

The disappearing middle class has been the backbone of America, we pay taxes when the very rich have loop - holds and offshore accounts.They don't have to struggle with the results of a low credit score.

Torres expands his conceptual practice in this solo exhibition while making ties to much of the narratives seen in his previous work that often focus on the struggles of lower class city dwelling.

As mentioned, most observers now believe that ODR offers a viable way to settle high - volume, low - value claims, something the courts, outside of class action suits, have always struggled with.

Mortgage lenders dodged the proposed rule by joining homebuilders and advocates of low - income homeownership to convince hundreds of lawmakers that defining supersafe mortgages as those with significant down payments would curtail mortgage lending to the struggling middle class and poor.