As an existential emblem it's substantial, but the film's static takes steadily decline from this level of suggestive, uncertain terms to more literal gestures
of class divide and reunification.
The movie finally does something with this futuristic world, though, by creating something
of a class divide between those who have been infected by the Flare and those living in the city.
Not exact matches
He said that many airlines have set up a sort
of «caste system» for members, cramming passengers in together and
dividing them into numerous tiers
of travel
classes.
In an analysis
of the changing shape
of the American middle
class, Pew Research Center
divided the population into three groups: Lower - income Americans made less than 2/3
of the median household income, middle - income households had incomes between 2/3 and 200 %
of the median, and upper - income households had income more than twice the median income.
«Such a
divide between the local police and immigrant groups will result in increased crime against immigrants and in the broader community, create a
class of silent victims, and eliminate the potential for assistance from immigrants in solving crimes or preventing crime.»
«The
divide between best in
class and rest in
class is widening,» says Geoff Linton, co-founder
of Inbox Marketer, a Guelph, Ont., consulting firm.
Coach
class is now
divided into three separate
classes, the lowest
of which United Airlines and American Airlines rolled out broadly this year, joining rival Delta Air Lines.
Netflix's board is
divided into three separate
classes, so shareholders don't even get to vote for or against all the directors every year, just a selection
of them.
The
class is
divided into five groups and each secretly assigned one
of the vocal qualities.
Asset allocation The way an investment portfolio is
divided among the broader asset
classes of stocks, bonds, and short - term reserves.
The nine directors
of each Reserve Bank are
divided evenly by classification:
Class A directors represent the member banks in the District;
Class B directors and
Class C directors represent the interests
of the public.
These changes, Bloomberg argues, have further
divided an already unequal society and decreased the number
of middle
class consumers.
Civil public dialogue goes to the heart
of solidarity, the virtue that does not
divide society into
classes and groups but builds up the common good
of all.
Bradford Wilcox, in his National Affairs essay «The Evolution
of Divorce,» discusses social science data showing a
class divide in the percentage
of Americans marrying and divorcing.
Traditionally (since Leibniz) the realm
of possibilities was
divided into two
classes.
The capitalist system has proved quite resourceful as well at
dividing and pacifying the more oppressed sectors
of the working
class in its midst.
Cloistered in red or blue communities and steeped in tell - me - what - I - want - to - hear media coverage, both sides have duped themselves into believing that our current crisis stems from a failure
of the political
class — «the swamp» — rather than the tragedy
of a
divided nation.
We both wept that the church continues to be sharply
divided by race and
class, political party and wedge issues, and not united by the blood
of Jesus.
As even this brief description
of the debate indicates, the demand for reparations raises issues that can not be resolved entirely by courts or legislators — issues involving relationships and tensions between groups
divided by ethnicity and
class.
The problems
of social
class derive not from this classifying
of men with the animals but from
dividing the inclusive
class of persons into subclasses.
«Executive,» «laborer,» «Catholic,» «Southern Baptist,» «Jew,» «Democrat,» «Republican,» «Socialist,» for example, are proper designations
of occupational, religious, or political affiliation, but may under undemocratic pressures become
class symbols which
divide people into comprehensive separate groups for other than occupational, religious, or political purposes.
Esselmont says that the founder's utterances «like other divine manifestations, may be
divided into two
classes, in one
of which he writes or speaks simply as a man who has been charged by God with a message to his fellows, while in the other
class the words purport to be the direct utterance
of God himself.»
What finally
divides the men
of today into two camps is not
class but an attitude
of mind — the spirit
of movement.
But the construct is vulnerable due to its own contradictions: the disproportionate size
of financial capital faced with the activities
of production and services; pressure on labour income and the resultant crisis
of under - consumption; the
class divide, the bases
of which cross borders.
But since instantaneous spaces are determinable only by what appears to actual observers (albeit perhaps in different families
of durations — CN 177), these spaces taken together constitute all nature as it may be
divided into alternate
classes of durational experiences.
Well, it was hard, with continual grading
of genuinely challenging assignments, and the curriculum was
divided, as I recall, between old - time diagram - the - sentences grammar, an in -
class debate tournament, the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, and poetry analysis, introduced through — you guessed it — rock song analysis!
Unless, that is, our essentially middle -
class life style is challenged by the poverty and oppression which is the lot
of most
of humankind, and we confront the hard truth that the issue is not reform
of the welfare system, no matter how much that is needed, but the end
of a capitalist economic order which increasingly
divides the world into those who have and those who have not.
Dividing a
class into small groups for the sharing
of ideas suggests that «it doesn't matter what you believe, just so you believe something.»
Precisely the issues on which Christians
divide today are those that are part
of the current
class struggle and
of the Kulturkampf that symbolizes it.
The Gentile nations are
divided up into two
classes of people — the sheep and the goats.
In pursuit
of happiness, people's right should always be respected, especially right to «marriage» regardless
of gender,
classes... The republican party has and always will
divide this country in the name
of their flying angel.
Though
class conflict and rural / urban
divides are not one and the same (there are people
of all
classes in small towns and in cities), their overlap exposes profound
class and cultural divisions in America.
Ours is a society sharply
divided by lines
of race and
class, profoundly anxious about its future, and more fearful now
of the threats posed by our neighbors at home than by any foreign enemy.
Learning to learn has become the primary focus
of my classroom work, and this focus is expressed in such methods as
dividing large
classes into rotating discussion groups; assigning shorter, more frequent written work that can be rewritten; structuring group oral examination experiences; and stressing the application
of what is learned to other disciplines and life situations.
The sign
of Jonah may well be that barriers
of race and
class that close and
divide so many other communities are broken down in this community
of the Spirit.
In my case the disease was distinctly what would be
classed as nervous, not organic; but from such opportunities as I have had
of observing, I have come to the conclusion that the
dividing line that has been drawn is an arbitrary one, the nerves controlling the internal activities and the nutrition
of the body throughout; and I believe that the central nervous system, by starting and inhibiting local centres, can exercise a vast influence upon disease
of any kind, if it can be brought to bear.
Just as society is
divided by
class struggle, so the church and its theology are
divided between an ideological use
of religion to sanctify the ruling
class and a prophetic tradition that denounces this misuse
of religion.
The fans would ping up the hairs on those boys necks, so much so that they would try run through brick walls, instead
of being frightened at the obvious
divide in
class.
Although Giroud has
divided opinion during his time in the Premier League, with the Frenchman developing a reputation for missing simple chances and going missing in the big games, he has also shown some moments
of real quality and
class, as well as netting 58 times in 134 appearances.
Stoking the fires
of R v D is just a way to blind us from the real
divide which is billionaires versus the middle
class (spoiler alert: they are winning, bigly, think
of it as the NFCCG and they are the Eagles and we are the Vikings).
Elneny in the same
class as Cazorla?And you wonder why we have a
divided fanbase?Its all about expectation levels.and anyone who seriously believes Elneney is the standard we should be setting are really settling for a club at the level
of West Ham.FFS WE ARE ARSENAL
It will be interesting to see, 20 years down the road, what kind
of affect this «sea change in American child rearing» will have on the
class divide.
This type
of parenting isn't practiced by all: American parenting styles are starkly
divided by
class.
While being a solo parent is challenging, this group
of women is not the downtrodden cliché portrayed in the July 14th NYT article, «Two
classes divided by «I do;» The reporter blasted single moms as an errant demographic, haggard and tired with no time.
I rarely make it to the actual
classes which are
divided according to age, as I almost always have all
of them with me.
I suspect that the public are more critical
of Thatcherism, or at least
divided, whereas the political
classes have embraced it by and large, albeit with rounded edges.
For a mass ideology, it asserts the unity
of «Ummah» where persons across
class, national, linguistic and gender
divides can become a part.
«The schism between the progressive unions who founded the WFP and some
of its member organization is unfortunate but in that
divide the governor stands with the unions who have left the WFP and no longer feel it represents the interests
of the middle - and working -
class New Yorkers,» said a Cuomo rep.
This definition is somewhat limited because it refers only to «real» property private property, but differing social & economic models have different ways
of dividing the
classes of property.
[7] The theses have variously included postulations
of selfishness (both through arguments
of relative unwillingness to self - sacrifice for a political cause as well as selfishness along rural / urban and
class divides, most notably the disinterest
of middle
class Africans to engage in political demonstration), nationalism (manifested through the fear
of being called an imperialist), illiteracy and lack
of access to technology, and forgetfulness
of «Black Africa.»