Sentences with phrase «middle class citizens in»

#OccupyNigeria # was formed in 2012 by a group of middle class citizens in Nigeria to protest against removal of fuel subsidy by the Jonathan's administration.

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While Cuba's middle class is reportedly growing with increased entrepreneurship and economic freedom, citizens are nowhere near China in terms of personal spending power.

In the long run the Chinese economy will continue to grow and millions of Chinese citizens will urbanize and become middle - class consumers.

During the Muslim rule in the middle ages they were considered second class citizens and still are in some countries.

In these scenarios, the countries visited are presented as one - dimensionally impoverished, its citizens cast as helpless innocents, and middle - class Americans portrayed as the only saviors who can help.

At that time waves of new immigrants were arriving in the cities of North America, and etiquette books emerged which taught these newcomers, who would become middle class citizens, how to avoid misbehaving in public.

Besides being «very rich», MItt Romney has said again, that he does have a problem with the middle - class, baby - bommers, senior citizens, veterans, disabled, AARP members, Social Security and benefits, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps and the poor, and homeless in America.

By 1850 pigeon racing was solidly established in Belgium, and Charles Dickens wrote, «The members of the Antwerp Pigeon Training Society were citizens of the middle class of Society, but in Belgium pigeon - training has its attractions even for persons of rank and wealth, many of whom are enthusiastic pigeon fanciers; indeed, pigeon flying is as fashionable an amusement in Belgium as horse - racing in England.

In Latin America, populism has tried to include workers and middle class citizens socially dislocated by capitalism.

Let's tax fairly in relation to wealth... give middle and working class tax relief and expect the donor class to pay their fair share... as they did before Citizens United allowed them to purchase our government!

«They put it down, in a very middle - class way, to youthful indiscretion, while other fellow citizens end up criminalised and their careers blighted as a result of taking a substance that is less dangerous than substances that are entirely legal.»

Civil service clerks who unionize and advocate for a wage structure that enables them to participate in our economy as productive, middle - class citizens are demonized, ridiculed and exhorted to accept their status as serfs and vassals while an economy on the brink of complete failure can't throw enough money at the self - syled «nobility».

«Remember that Middle Belt and southern Nigerians are now effectively slaves and second class citizens in their own country.

Democrats need 17 seats to regain control of the House this November and entered the race this spring with email blasts painting both GOP candidates as enemies of the middle class, women and senior citizens, hinging them to the Ryan Budget, a blueprint would seek to erase the deficit with deep cuts in domestic spending.

Or a drastic raise in taxes for our middle class citizens?

Through the lives of several different characters, the film exhibits the loneliness of these middle - class Austrian citizens, often in a deranged sexual manner.

It could be because they are mostly cherry - picked group of citizens, middle - class to upper - middle - class, involved in sculpting, painting, dancing, yoga, reading, and taking long walks along the leafy roads in and about San Luis Obispo.

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.

«Looper's storyline puts us in a period of time where most of the citizens are lower middle class.

These parents, probably the majority of home schoolers, are mainly middle - class parents who believe in prolonged intimate contact between family and child, but who do not mean to impede their children's access to higher education and jobs or their ability to act as good citizens.

But this claim needs to be tested, for there is clearly a plausible alternative: that teachers are not only better educated and more middle class than the average citizen, but also more public spirited, more committed to public education, and thus more likely to vote in school - board elections regardless of their personal stakes.

As previously noted, in Connecticut, the poor pay about 12 % of their income in state and local taxes, the Middle Class about 10 % and the state's wealthiest citizen's only pay about 5.5 % of their income in state and local taxes.

They became Canadian citizens five years ago and bought a three - bedroom home in a middle - class suburb of Montreal.

A wide - ranging economic analysis suggests the top 1 % continues to earn vastly more in the markets than the average U.S. citizen; but the middle class is gaining ground thanks to pensions and DC plans.

Slavery was abolished in 1834 and the local population became British citizens, resulting in a large, thriving middle class and an excellent educational system.

The supposed benefits of reducing income inequality would be felt beyond the low - income targets of social programs, because middle - class citizens would live in safer neighbourhoods as well.

We see this happening, out of necessity perhaps, in areas of poverty law and, indeed, now in areas affecting more and more the middle class, where the costs of access to justice have climbed out of citizens» reach.

(obviously things will never end well for the sheep) It is a fact that the so called middle class in our society is under siege and our system (s) are being taken advantage of by the remaining citizens.