Sentences with phrase «middle class roots»

I come from middle class roots, and the RWDSU has a long and proud history of fighting and winning battles for working families like mine.

«Tom DiNapoli is a hard - working guy who doesn't forget his middle class roots, and he knows that every dime counts — especially when they're taxpayer dimes — so we trust him to do what's right for Staten Island.»

Not exact matches

Often it is people who live in middle - class or affluent neighborhoods that are relatively free of violent crime who insist on holding a «root - cause» seminar while people are dying in the streets.

His analogy is functionalist: physical inheritance in prehension functions like the general populace which predominates in a tradition - rooted society; the novelty of the conceptual pole of a prehension plays the same role as the originative activities of the «fortunate classes», the middle class entrepreneurs, who predominate in modern society.

In countries in the South, faced with the alliance between international capital, the comprador bourgeoisie and part of the middle class, the alternative consisted in using joint programmes and actions to bring together the different grass - roots groups such as workers, peasants, the informal sector, movements of the urban poor, co-operatives, minority ethnic groups, and also the vulnerable middle classes, students, etc..

It will not do to blame middle - class churches for the crisis, to scold them for having lost their roots and their evangelistic fervor, to say that they have waxed too fat — too institutional, professional and formal.

Having said this, it would not be fair to say that these aims are necessarily rooted in the experience of the society as a whole; their vision does seem to have been developed around the specific experience of the educated middle class.

Since the new breed of political corruption takes the form of corporate money smothering our democracy, our club is staying true to its roots by supporting Howie Hawkins: a genuine friend of the working and middle classes,» said long time club member John Bredin.

But If Ed went who could replace him who could appeal to the roots of the organisation of the party, could appeal to those put off by the westminster buble, like the Northern wokring class, who admire Blue lABOUR, YET HAVE THE APPEAL OF MIDDLE ENGLAND, but have tried to accept the dificulties of the road ahead, and could actually get the party to accept that we need to change drasitcally,

An exercise in sober drama and a middle - class cautionary tale which explores a family ripped up by the roots after the rape of a 14 - year - old girl.

And it is very important that the cousins never admit their middle - class roots lest they risk being exposed as lacking street cred.

A barrister's son educated at the fee - paying St Michael's College in Ailesbury Road, the actor christened Killian Murphy (he changed his surname to avoid confusion with the Cork - born star of «The Wind That Shakes the Barley») has never tried to play down his middle - class roots.

I grew up in a conservative working - class family who had left its roots in farming communities of Ontario to travel to Hamilton, Toronto and other large metropolitan areas (where my dad landed a job as manager of Eastern Canada for Philips Electronics and brought us temporarily into the middle class).

Brooklyn's Community Roots has been approved to expand into middle school this fall and considers its new lottery priority a success: roughly 600 families applied for a kindergarten class of 50.

But with millions of Catholics today firmly rooted in the middle class and above, it's also easy to forget that 50, 75, and 100 years ago, America's urban poor were often recent Catholic immigrants facing many of the same obstacles as today's impoverished inner - city families.

And it is a matter that contrasts sharply with educating, more so than training, elite - and middle - class children rooted in their parents» values of «curiosity, happiness, consideration, and... self - control» and «self - direction.»

As it is, the Maxima is moving away from its sport sedan roots and towards middle - class sedandom; a place dominated by the Honda Accord and Toyota Camry.

Their cries could form the basis of a new populist movement, rooted in poorer and middle - class voters who seethe at their political leaders» inattention to their problems and lament an American dream gone awry.