Sentences with phrase «not upper middle class»

Not exact matches

Financial technology firm MarketX lets upper - middle class and institution Chinese investors to invest in tech firms that have not yet issued shares to the general public.

But then, that same justification doesn't apply to the upper - middle - class household paying under the table to have a deck built on the back of their suburban house.

He said yes, when built on a larger scale: «We truly believe that this is not only a middle, upper - class type thing.

They became firmly established in the upper middle class, if not wealthy.

Nobody wants to admit that they * aren't * middle class when they are easily upper class.

I'm 13, live in an upper middle - class family, have good grades in school, and wan't to start planning out my future now.

With the cancellation of the health care levy (which it should be pointed out was graduated and not a flat amount like the old premium), and the NDP tax increases kicking in at 130K and not 100K like the Prentice budget, the NDP has made sure the upper middle class (and some of the upper class) are paying less taxes than under Prentice's budget.

It is not uncommon for middle - and upper - class Americans to seek out diverse neighborhoods and to worry aloud that their children are not encountering enough people from other races.

Middle and upper class couples limit their families, oftentimes because BOTH parents have careers they don't want to be derailed from for too long.

(Unlike elite universities, the military isn't an upper - middle - class institution, so a dysfunctional sexual culture there has received less media attention.)

One of the things I have respected most in Aida Rosa, principal of the elementary school P.S. 30, and the teachers that I talk with on her staff is that they look at children here as children, not as «distorted children,» not as «morally disabled children,» not as «quasi-children» who require a peculiar arsenal of reconstructive strategies and stick - and - carrot ideologies that wouldn't be accepted for one hour by the parents or the teachers of the upper middle class.

Change has affected not only the upper and middle classes.

To be sure, the Christian community to whom Paul wrote was not exactly the upper class of this metropolis; in all likelihood, its members were mostly what we would today call lower middle class.

We've done so because the people at the top prefer a permissive atmosphere that allows us to do as we wish» as long as we don't hurt anyone, a judgment call that ends up ruling out things upper - middle - class people don't like, such as smoking and putting glass bottles in plastics - only recycling bins.

I know of many groups who are very exclusive, meaning they exclude anyone who does not meet their standards, such as you need to be at least upper middle class, white and live in a good neighborhood to be part of the group.

If you haven't seen the show, Betty is a more realistic portrayal of what a 1960's upper - middle - class housewife would look like; picture perfect on the outside but trapped and lonely on the inside.

I know I can't speak for all women in all situations / socio - economic backgrounds, but the pressure on educated middle - and upper - class women to breastfeed is intense.

There is no future in it if you aren't already in the upper middle class or better.

It certainly did not have the cachet it has now for middle and upper class white women.

The point wasn't to learn about nutrition, but rather about language — how to fill an everyday shopping trip with the kind of nonstop chatter that has become second nature to most upper - middle - class parents, full of questions about numbers and colors and letters and names.

Cheating is not, by any measure, the upper middle class problem reflected in these Stuyvesant anecdotes.

I don't doubt that «breast is best,» but I am disturbed by the social pressure in some (primarily middle and upper - middle class) areas to breastfeed.

There are a lot of upper middle class women who will ask indignantly, «Isn't this just for wealthy women?»

2) the movements in Africa were mainly run by upper middle classes, this is also true for india untill they slashed the cost of joining the INC indian congress to become affordable m allowing to poor to have a say in the running of the party.Africa on the other hand had a more tribal approuch in that there were opinions and they were voiced, but the popularity of the «chief» was not often challenged

Functionally it restricts those who do not move in middle or upper - middle class circles from travelling freely, or forces them to commit fraud to do so.)

So if you take a broad definition of «middle class» as the three middle classes (upper - middle don't think of themselves as rich, working don't think of themselves as poor), then you can appeal to about 88 % of the population.

The two main parties have done a fair job of splitting up the remaining classes, with one side having the appearance of caring for lower more, and the other for upper, but in reality, that only really matters if they aren't getting the larger share of «the middle class».

(Oh... wait... I forgot... Liberals only believe in abortion for African - Americans and poor people, not upper - middle class married white folks.

«Everybody I know that is a small owner of real estate that isn't within the billionaire class — average middle - class, upper - middle - class Miamians who have real estate on the beach — is in the process of selling their properties and moving to the mainland,» Keenan said.

Whereas Chanel had no formal education but a great deal of experience of the ways of the world, Schiaparelli was from Italian upper middle - class academic stock, which gave her the assurance to make fashion not just amusing but outrageously so.

Englishwoman of the upper middle class will not often go dating with a man of the middle class,.

A white, upper - middle class man should not have been appointed to lead the Grenfell Tower inquiry, a Labour MP has said.

Perhaps surprisingly, SeekingArrangement said many of its student members do not, in fact, hail from low income families: 56 percent come from middle and upper - middle class families, while 20 percent are from high income families.

I'm not on a sd website to find a guy who's more broke than I am or the average upper middle class joe.

A drama of upper - middle - class menace that can't quite bring itself to be a full - on slasher movie, this has a few too many clichés but offers some creepiness and decent performances.

The Jeffrey Wigand we see here is an ordinary upper - middle - class American who makes an extraordinary decision for reasons he doesn't quite understand and whose consequences he can't imagine.

He doesn't suit the Huntfords» ideal of upper - middle - class propriety, and worse, he makes it all too clear that Moll doesn't either.

That nuttiness - albeit safely couched in middle - age and upper - middle class comforts - is on display in Lawrence Kasdan's Darling Companion, a shambling and not exactly deep ensemble piece centered on a long - married couple (Diane Keaton, Kevin Kline) and the dog that comes into, and then out of, their lives.

Like Falling Down, Phone Booth delivers a literal wake - up call to the scrapping, morally fast - and - loose middle to upper class (the Caller intones, as much about warnings to be heeded as cat - killing curiosity, «A ringing phone has to be answered, doesn't it?»).

The lighting is darker and moodier, there are creative camera movements and long shots, and an eerie Cliff Martinez electro score thrums like we're watching «Drive» and not a bunch of upper - middle - class suburbanites whose biggest excitement in life so far has been a proposal during a game of Pictionary.

However, it was strictly a New York sitcom that depicted members of the upper middle class and the top one percent, so it wasn't exactly down to Earth and universally accessible.

It all takes place within the comfy - cozy environs of an upper - middle - class London that the vast majority of audience members couldn't even begin to afford.

In the opening scene, an upper - middle - class family drives to their house in the country, heavy metal music sarcastically blasting on the soundtrack (not the family's car stereo, which plays bourgeois - appropriate classical), and even before the whore has gotten a chance to flash her jewels, Haneke is already slapping her on the wrist.

Resident upper - and middle - class Chinese Americans, she says, could provide supportive networks to new Chinese immigrants that the other two groups can not access as readily.

Charters in Massachusetts would have been better positioned politically if they had not previously neglected to benefit more middle and upper - middle class families.

And yes, some of them can't meet the challenge, but there are middle and upper class students who can't meet it, either.

Teaneck, N.J. — The jailing of teachers seemed bizarre, out of place, in Teaneck, a liberal, upper - middle - class community of 40,000 where parents discuss where, not whether, their children will attend college.

Many elementary classes start each morning with a meeting that sets the stage for the learning that will occur during the day, but more and more middle schools are finding that this social experience is just, if not more, important in upper grades.

This will diversify the qualifying population and not just favor upper - middle - class kids.

Still, this blend of devoted all - around instructors, rigorous expectations, and a paternalistic education culture was not confined to upper - middle - class kids in elite prep schools.