Sentences with phrase «middle class war»

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.

Not exact matches

There's the hollowing out of domestic manufacturing economies and the middle class they supported; ethno - nationalist backlash to the forces of globalization; sprawling culture wars over «identity politics» and far more.

The French president warned that trade wars, rather than trade deals, «destroy jobs» and raise prices for the middle class.

The gap between rich and poor narrowed after World War II as unions negotiated better pay and benefits and as the government enacted a minimum wage and other policies to help the poor and middle class.

German's excessive debt burden after the Great War, for example, was «forgiven», unwillingly, mainly by middle - and upper - middle - class households and civil servants, whose fixed income portfolios withered to nothing in the hyperinflation that began in mid 1921 and ended in early 1924.

Though salarymen worked extremely long hours and were expected to provide the utmost loyalty and sacrifice to their corporation, they were rewarded with thoroughly middle class lifestyles and promises of lifetime employment — a significant step - up from the very humble lives that most Japanese lived before World War Two.

In the three decades after World War II, when the incomes of the rich grew more slowly than those of the middle class, the top marginal rate ranged from 70 to 91 percent.

S & H, as the company was known, benefited greatly from the rise of the suburban middle class after World War II.

And the Republican war on women (and gays, and blacks, and hispanics, and the poor, and the middle class, and atheists, and Muslims, and the environment, and...) continues.

What we face now and in the future is wars over resources that are getting slimmer with increased population and a shrinking middle class.

Religious people are so concerned about the so - called «culture war» that they're out there voting for the greatest enemies of the well - being and opportunity of the working - and middle - classes.

At the time, the whole pharmaceutical industry was engaged in a lobbying and public relations effort to restore opioids to the average middle - class family's pharmacopeia, where they had not been found since before World War I.

We became a middle - class society only after the concentration of income at the top dropped sharply during the New Deal, and especially during World War II.

The most impressive economic growth in U.S. history coincided with the middle - class interregnum, the post-World War II generation, when incomes were most evenly distributed.

But if the middle - class society that emerged from the war was an artificial creation, why did it persist for another 30 years?

In Aleppo, one of Syria's most war - torn cities, his job as a truck driver once provided a four - room house and a middle - class, urban life.

The images abound in stock video footage accompanying stories on evangelicals, the religious right, megachurches and the culture wars — the obligatory shots of middle - class worshipers, usually white, in corporate - looking auditoriums or sanctuaries, swaying to the electrified music of «praise bands,» their eyes closed, their enraptured faces tilted heavenward, a hand (or hands) raised to the sky.

The GOP will bring war and hate and suppression of the rights for the working middle class, nothing more.

At the Library of Law and Liberty, Greg Weiner reconsiders Daniel Patrick Moynihan's criticisms of the War on Poverty, and suggests conservatives who frequently cite his work on the subject miss Moynihan's broader point: It was not that too much money was being misspent on the poor, but rather that those resources which were directed at the poor were all too often funneled through the middle class professional classes:

The wealthy have been waging war on the middle class for some inexplicable reason for decades, and now that they're doing it in broad daylight, they want to pretend it's perfectly moral and just.

And Churches that preach charity and kindness to your fellow man are forced to go along with the GOP's relentless class war on the middle class and the poor... ESPECIALLY the poor.

The images abound in stock video footage accompanying stories on evangelicals, the religious right, megachurches and the culture wars — the obligatory shots of middle - class worshipers, usually white, in corporate - looking auditoriums or sanctuaries, swaying to the electrified music of «praise bands,» their eyes closed, their enraptured faces tilted heavenward, a hand (or hands) raised to...

The Kinsey reports of 1948 and 1953 were shocking only because they confirmed what careful social observers already knew — the Victorian social code had been the moral code of the American middle - class in word only since the end of the First World War.

The appearance of Indian restaurants in the U.K. coincided with the beginning of a dining out tradition among the middle class, which had never developed during the war years and the austere fifties.

I think it is important to point out that this isn't just an issue for middle class families who care deeply about their child's diet and are able to provide abundant healthy food choices but school menus have great impact on many, many poor children who, through no fault of their own and often with no agency to change the situation, end up being pawns in the lunch tray wars.

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.

More than anything else, this is a culture war — and many of those kicking out against the liberal (former) status quo are middle - class and affluent.

The party is experiencing its own class war, with many working class supporters demanding a reduction and middle class supporters typically more supportive.

He was supposed to be in town to participate in the DNC's counter-convention war room, which has an official name — Romney Economics: Wrong for the Middle Class — and officially opens for business tomorrow.

These Class War anarchists are white and middle cClass War anarchists are white and middle classclass.

The Tories mock «One minute Gordon Brown's a class warrior, the next he is a friend of middle Britain... The idea that a man who has spent his whole career at war with the middle classes can be their champion is laughable».

This whole ridiculous concept that brought us the weekend, paid holidays, 40 hour work weeks, medical coverage, ended child labor and built a solid middle class after the war?

«What's worse is that Republican members of our own Congressional delegation have aided and abetted in Washington's war against New York, cutting taxes for millionaires while jeopardizing care for seniors, women, the middle class and the disabled.»

Perhaps the most effective class war has been that of the rich - their incomes have soared in comparison to those on middle or low incomes who actually generate wealth.

Evil Fabians have waged war on the tax paying, property owning middle classes for a century.

It is the latest sign that Labour is backing away from the «class war» strategy apparently adopted before Christmas which has alarmed middle class voters.

For those who, with Herbert Morrison, have never seen any conflict «between Labour and what are known as the middle classes», and who, with Aneurin Bevan, denounce class war, calling instead for «a platform broad enough for all to stand upon» and for the making of «war upon a system, not upon a class».

New Paltz, NY — Hudson Valley college, high school, and middle school students were among the thousands nationwide to walk out of class in protest of a war against Iraq.

That these psychopaths who wanted to wage war on the American Middle Class, have lost because they can't control the message anymore.

A wealthy, middle - class and mostly owner - occupied seat this was a safe Conservative seat between the first world war and the 1990s.

Jazz grew out of the Civil War in New Orleans, and by the early 1900s it was linking white middle and upper classes to black entertainers.

Synopsis: A moving drama about a middle - class English family learning to cope with war, told in a series of dramatic vignettes.

For fifteen - year old Tom (Cunliffe), the war zone is at the heart of his seemingly happy middle - class family.

Almost 100 years later we still live in a world increasingly affected by war, unemployment and poverty, a reality that nonetheless remains discreetly hidden under the carpet by the illusion of a global democratic society, where most people have access to the internet, and where an overestimated middle class is entertained by lavish sports competitions.

A quant English burg named Pagford is in the middle of a class and age war.

I wanted it to be with the rise of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan and this international never - ending war on terror combined with this continuing erosion of the middle class, particularly in America.

Mahershala Ali — ««The Hunger Games: Mockingjay (Parts 1 and 2),» «The Curious Case of Benjamin Button» Anthony Anderson — «The Departed,» «Hustle & Flow» Adam Beach — «The Departed,» «Hustle & Flow» Kate Beckinsale --- «Love & Friendship,» «The Aviator» Chadwick Boseman --- «Captain America: Civil War,» «Get on Up» John Boyega — «Star Wars: The Force Awakens,» «Attack the Block» Betty Buckley --- «Wyatt Earp,» «Carrie» Rose Byrne — «X-Men: First Class,» «Bridesmaids» Julie Carmen — «The Milagro Beanfield War,» «Gloria» Enrique Castillo — «Déjà Vu,» «Bound by Honor» Morris Chestnut — «G.I. Jane,» «Boyz N the Hood» Cliff Curtis — «Live Free or Die Hard,» «Training Day» Idris Elba — «Beasts of No Nation,» «Pacific Rim America Ferrera — «Cesar Chavez,» «End of Watch» Vivica A. Fox — «Kill Bill,» «Independence Day» Andrew Garfield — «99 Homes,» «The Amazing Spider - Man» Greta Gerwig — «Frances Ha,» «To Rome with Love» Jesse D. Goins — «The Ugly Truth,» «Patriot Games» Bruce Greenwood — «Flight,» «Star Trek» Carla Gugino — «Watchmen,» «Night at the Museum» Luis Guzmán — «Punch - Drunk Love,» «Carlito's Way» Dennis Haysbert — «Dear White People,» «Wreck - It Ralph» Tom Hiddleston — «Crimson Peak,» «Marvel's The Avengers» James Hong — «Safe,» «Mulan» Oscar Isaac — «Ex Machina,» «A Most Violent Year» O'Shea «Ice Cube» Jackson * — «Ride Along,» «Friday» Dakota Johnson — «Black Mass,» «Fifty Shades of Grey» Cherry Jones — «Whiskey Tango Foxtrot,» «Signs» Michael B. Jordan — «Creed,» «Fruitvale Station» Daniel Dae Kim — «The Divergent Series: Insurgent,» «Crash» Regina King — «Ray,» «Jerry Maguire Brie Larson — «Room,» «Trainwreck» Byung - Hun Lee — «Terminator Genisys,» «G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra» Nia Long — «Keanu,» «Boyz N the Hood» Sal Lopez — «The Astronaut Farmer,» «Full Metal Jacket» Ignacio López Tarso — «Under the Volcano,» «Nazarin» Patti LuPone — «Parker,» «Driving Miss Daisy» Peter Mackenzie — «Trumbo,» «42» Rachel McAdams — «Spotlight,» «Midnight in Paris» Eva Mendes — «The Place beyond the Pines,» «Hitch» Tatsuya Nakadai — «Ran,» «Kagemusha» Adepero Oduye — «The Big Short,» «12 Years a Slave» Marisa Paredes — «The Skin I Live In,» «All about My Mother» Nate Parker — «Beyond the Lights,» «Red Tails» Harold Perrineau — «Zero Dark Thirty,» «28 Weeks Later» Jorge Perugorría — «Che,» «Strawberry and Chocolate» Silvia Pinal — «Vintage Model,» «The Exterminating Angel» Freida Pinto — «Immortals,» «Slumdog Millionaire» Michelle Rodriguez — «Avatar,» «Girlfight» Anika Noni Rose — «For Colored Girls,» «Dreamgirls» Cecilia Roth — «Lucia Lucia,» «All About My Mother» Mark Rylance — «Bridge of Spies,» «The Other Boleyn Girl» Pepe Serna — «The Black Dahlia,» «The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez» Martin Starr — «I'll See You in My Dreams,» «Adventureland» Elizabeth Sung — «Memoirs of a Geisha,» «The Joy Luck Club» Sharmila Tagore — «Dhadkan,» «The World of Apu» Tessa Thompson — «Creed,» «Dear White People» Lorraine Toussaint — «Selma,» «Middle of Nowhere» Glynn Turman — «Super 8,» «Men of Honor» Gabrielle Union — «Top Five,» «Bad Boys II» Jacob Vargas — «The 33,» «Jarhead» Alicia Vikander — «The Danish Girl,» «Ex Machina» Emma Watson — «The Bling Ring,» «The Perks of Being a Wallflower» Damon Wayans, Jr. — «Big Hero 6,» «Let's Be Cops» Marlon Wayans — «The Heat,» «Requiem for a Dream» Rita Wilson — «It's Complicated,» «Runaway Bride» Daphne Zuniga — «Staying Together,» «Spaceballs»

Dramatic films which have portrayed the «homefront» during times of war, and the subsequent problems of peacetime adjustment include William Wyler's Mrs. Miniver (1942) about a separated middle - class family couple (Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon) during the Blitz, Clarence Brown's The Human Comedy (1943) with telegram delivery boy Mickey Rooney bringing news from the front to small - town GI families back home, John Cromwell's Since You Went Away (1944) with head of family Claudette Colbert during her husband's absence, and another William Wyler poignant classic The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) with couples awkwardly brought back together forever changed after the war: Dana Andrews and Virginia Mayo, Fredric March and Myrna Loy, and Harold Russell and Cathy O'Donnell.

So I was interested in telling a story of a family, and of a girl, and of a time — we're getting into the war in Iraq, and the erosion of the middle class.

Upper - middle - class Dorothy is the widow of Victor, who was killed in the war.