Sentences with phrase «of the american dream»

Think about how few people seem bothered by Donald Trump's business failings — in fact, some voters say that just shows he's a risk taker and a dogged pursuer of the American Dream.

We also need to move beyond the story of the American dream which puts the individual front and center stage.

Immigrant entrepreneurs are the epitome of the American dream.

The city's urban plan was the brainchild of French immigrant and architect Pierre Charles L'Enfant, who envisioned an egalitarian design for the District — a vision that was a physical manifestation of the American dream.

In the pursuit of the American dream, minority business owners often face an uphill battle.

Each is likely a skilled manager of people, strategic in thinking, and a deserving beneficiary of the American Dream.

And this born - in - the - U.S. way of selling is still part of the American dream that Europeans love.

There he witnessed many people, including his father, who were left out of the American dream.

Stock options have become part of the American dream and the managerial weapon of choice for the savviest companies.

«We are living in an unprecedented time, one in which we are witness to the conscience of our country, and the promise of the American Dream, being called into question,» CEO Howard Schultz wrote in a letter to Starbucks employees about the plan.

We have a society built on the story of the American Dream: if you work hard and build a great business, you can succeed.

He called on every American to «fill the reservoir of the American Dream back up not with cynicism, but with optimism.

So for those who question the health of the American dream, I stand here in front of you as undisputed proof that the American dream is still well and alive.»

It's no accident that immigrants represent a significant percentage of new businesses in the U.S.. They're eager to build their own version of the American dream.

«The show has become a reinforcement of the American Dream,» Cuban told D, a Dallas magazine.

Entrepreneurs are the embodiment of the American dream.

The story of our company's growth is, for many, the apotheosis of the American Dream.

How many came from countries far away in search of the American Dream.

Ms. Stewart wasn't selling anything at the Alibaba event, but she did plug a signifier of the American dream — a big open kitchen.

Home ownership is part of the American dream, but most people can't afford to pay cash and buy a house outright.

Despite declarations by nearly every modern U.S. President that owning a home lies at the heart of the American dream, homeownership might not be for everyone.

What is the single best indicator of the American Dream?

Bootstrapping is a core element in the spirit of the American Dream.

The U.S. Residential Housing Market: What's Next (panel discussion) David Blitzer, the Chairman of Standard & Poor's Index Committee started with the question «Is owning your own home still a part of the American dream?»

As I reported on the mortgage market, one thing that fascinated me was how the impresarios of the housing boom used the idea of the American dream to clear the way.

While homeownership has many benefits and continues to be part of the American Dream, it is not without costs.

Purchasing your first home has been a longtime benchmark of the American Dream.

Running a startup company is one of the most demanding jobs out there, but is nonetheless the very essence of the American dream; millions of Americans fantasize about being their own bosses.

He is the sad side of the American Dream.

In defense of many christians they see the decline of morality, the decline of the american dream and a happy and great country and parallel this decline or blame it on all the pushy anti religion elites.

For example, a Heritage Foundation document titled «Time to Repeal Federal Death Taxes: The Nightmare of the American Dream» emphasizes stories that rarely, if ever, happen in real life: «Small - business owners, particularly minority owners, suffer anxious moments wondering whether the businesses they hope to hand down to their children will be destroyed by the death tax bill,... Women whose children are grown struggle to find ways to re-enter the work force without upsetting the family's estate tax avoidance plan.»

One year — and then back home to «normal» and the shimmer of the American dream.

Right when it was millennials» turn to grab hold of the American Dream, it exploded in our face, with the Great Recession happily pulling the pin.

At the time, CEO Howard Schultz wrote: «We are living in an unprecedented time, one in which we are witness to the conscience of our country, and the promise of the American Dream, being called into question.

It must be nice to blindly believe in the idea of the American dream, as it dies before the very eyes of anyone with the heart to look.

Commercials, MTV (whose music and fast - paced visual rhythms almost hypnotically envelop us), soap operas and situation comedies give us detailed, visual narratives of the ups and downs of the American Dream.

It's the gasoline of the American dream of getting ahead, the sweat - equity portion of home ownership.

King saw that for the vast majority of black Americans, their fundamental oppression was not that they were black, but that they were poor — last hired, first fired, locked out of the American dream, living in a vast twilight zone of joblessness and hopelessness.

The new monastic communities swim against the pull of the American dream — to be financially secure, to move across the country for a better job, to plan for retirement.

What would it mean for Christians to give up that little piece of the American Dream that says, «You are limitless»?

This was the birthplace of the American Dream, a place where anyone who had a will to try and a strong work ethic could improve his or her lot in life.

The prosperity movement was constituted by «the deification and ritualization of the American Dream.»

Anthony Walton wrote in the Atlantic Monthly that the «glittering cybercities on the hill, the latest manifestation of the American Dream,» actually «shed the past and learn to exist without contemplating or encouraging the tragedy of the inner city.»

It is past time for us secular humanists, wimp liberals, and unborn - again spoilers of the American Dream to wake up.

According to the sociology of the American Dream, churches exist to support families so there will be a moral citizenry.

The values of the American Dream can be destructive habits of thought.

I believed it would lift me into the heaven of the American dream.

I know plenty of people, both rich and poor, who are suffocating from the weight of an American dream, who find themselves heavily burdened by the lifeless toil and consumption we put upon ourselves.

They are rightly suspicious if the principles are the sexist and racist values of the American Dream.

Victorian use and understanding of Scripture supported a theology of the American Dream.