Sentences with phrase «more affluent parts»

But in more affluent parts of the city there was some evidence of meaningful progress, both in terms of student learning and in community buy - in.

In the more affluent parts of the district, Times penetration is strong, but those votes were going to likely go to Mr. Jeffries anyway.

Second, as protests spread to the more affluent parts of the country, people poured into the streets of cities like Sfax and Tunis and began to organize themselves with cell phones and Facebook.

There are some very well kept temples along this more affluent part of Bali, and if you happen to be here in March for the Balinese New Year, or Nyepi, then you will have the experience of a lifetime as all the local Banjars bring out their giant, monstrous, horrific ogres, or ogo ogos, and take to the streets in an eerie yet comical procession.

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The much more salient point is that Whole Foods gives Amazon ready access to affluent parts of the population.

As result, low - income Americans will again have a less - merry season than affluent consumers, who are more flush thanks in part to surging stock markets.

The common cap is $ 1 million in liquid assets to invest as a definition because if you've got much more, then you're obviously a millionaire and not part of the mass affluent crowd.

So even though trying to live faithfully as part of an affluent society, with all the temptations this entails, is in some ways more difficult and more uncomfortable than living the radical response, it does have several important advantages:

If I were running the government, I would see to it that school districts that serve the poor would have a larger share of the tax revenue than school districts that serve the affluent, for in the poor districts there is far more ground to be made up to provide the open equality of opportunity, and equality of opportunity must be a part of every just society.

A large part of the affluent world is now experiencing a large measure of freedom from the struggle for subsistence, but there are many within that world who are not and many more outside that world who can hardly survive.

«Today our business is much more robust, it's about taking our branded business into markets where they recognise the importance of clean, green produce and where provenance plays a part and there's a consumer segment that is affluent and willing to pay a premium for Australian produce.

Another part of the answer has to do with early cognitive stimulation: Affluent parents typically provide more books and educational toys to their kids in early childhood; low - income parents are less likely to live in neighborhoods with good libraries and museums and other enrichment opportunities, and they're less likely to use a wide and varied vocabulary when speaking to their infants and children.

Overall, Democratic presidential candidates have raised significantly more money than Republicans, and these January - through - June numbers show that it is in part a result of their finding a route into the wallets of the well educated and affluent as well as suburbanites in general:

Although the party was on the winning side in the referendum, the Yes vote was relatively high in the less affluent and thus more Labour parts -LSB-...]

In the North, African - American populations are largely confined to large urban areas and their less affluent first ring suburbs, and segregated neighborhoods that are a legacy of pre-Civil Rights era patterns of housing discrimination remain the norm in older parts of non-Southern cities, (although newer suburbs tend to be considerably more integrated than older neighborhoods outside the South).

Equally, pupils from less affluent backgrounds who took part «are more likely to be highly motivated» and «more able» than their peers who did not sign up.

This customer subsample of parents is, not surprisingly, more educated and affluent than parents who are identically selected except that the costs of their child's attendance are covered in whole or in part by entities outside the family.

Nashville school officials have rejected a proposal to open a charter school in a middle - class part of the city, highlighting a broader national battle over efforts by operators of such publicly financed, privately run schools to expand into more affluent areas.

Policies that often lead to more affluent parents moving to and flooding certain parts of the city.

Head Start was created as part of President Lyndon Johnson's «War on Poverty» agenda to help children from disadvantaged families become as school ready as their more affluent peers.

He also shared his concern that black, Latino, and low - income students still fall below their white and more affluent peers on measures of achievement, in large part due to inequitable access to resources, effective educators, and rigorous coursework.

Richard Reeves, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, said, «I have yet to find a specific part of the tax code that is more skewed to the affluent than 529s.»

According to Ford's luxury division, the Lincoln MKC has done its part in bringing «younger, more affluent» buyers into showrooms, as well as attracting its share of female customers.

At the height of the tourist season — winter and summer — Waikïkï Beach was crowded with visitors, but during the offseason there was more room for families like ours, from less affluent parts of the city, and my family and I would often enjoy the beach in the company of my Korean «sisters» and their families.

Affluent consumers are particularly likely to reach for a credit card rather than a debit card, said TSYS, in part because they offer more rewards.

The more affluent areas of rural England and large parts of the south vote Conservative with barely a though (at least prior to the rise of UKIP).