Sentences with phrase «of wealthy background»

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Other wealthy countries have dealt with this problem, passing an array of gun control measures, from universal background checks to licensing requirements to outright bans and confiscation schemes.

These days, more and more of the players that go on to play major junior, college and, ultimately, pro hockey are from wealthy backgrounds.

Before anyone starts trolling me: I am wealthier / more privileged than most; aristocratic background; LOVE children but have none of my own; can easily afford First Class, but just as often choose to sit in PREMIUM ECONOMY (and a screaming infant is just as annoying in the back of the plane as it is up front!)

The so - called risk takers — the entrepreneurs, the wealthy middle - aged professionals who try to climb Mount Everest, the artists who pose against the background of transgression — are nothing more than gamblers looking for a big payoff.

Sir Steven Runciman (1903 — 2000) descended, on both sides of his family, from a wealthy commercial background of shipping and public service.

If you were to check the business background of the wealthiest people (i.e. Joe Kennedy) you would find out that they are some of the biggest CROOKS in the World.

Their advisers are mostly - if not entirely - men, some of them from wealthy backgrounds.

In the last 150 years a substantial majority of national politicianseither had wealthy backgrounds, or had successful careers in a profession orbusiness they could return to.

«Children who are born with high abilities but who come from poor backgrounds are overtaken in recorded levels of achievement at primary school by children of weaker ability from wealthier socioeconomic backgrounds.

As it currently stands, pupils from deprived economic backgrounds have lower levels of attainment than their wealthier counterparts.

We will uncover persons of goodwill including former students, self - made wealthy hands, and we will aggressively compete for endowment money yearly, engage in direct solicitations, promote fundraising events, and undertake international visits to private citizens of Nigeria nativity, African American backgrounds, wealthy persons and corporations across the globe.

Using differential interest rates rising with earnings as a means of providing for a more progressive system is less fair than a graduate tax, a graduate contribution or general taxation because those from wealthy backgrounds will have smaller debts as their families can afford to pay up front.

One solution could be a uniform salary for state legislators, pinned to a state's cost of living, that guarantees a basic living wage without enriching legislators from wealthy backgrounds.

At the moment, that perception isn't exactly unfair; David Cameron and George Osborne, for their strengths, both come from a background of privilege unrecognisable to most Brits, even relatively wealthy Brits.

Clegg also offered his background as a civil rights attorney and a volunteer with Habitat for Humanity against Faso's history of being a lobbyist for the «wealthy donor class.»

When you date a wealthier woman, both of you will likely have common interests, tastes, education and background.

The main two reasons of women becoming sugar babies are that they were not born in a wealthy family or don't have a strong background.

A lot of people who belong to humble backgrounds and don't have a great deal of money wonder as to how wealthy and successful people spend their time.

«About Time» is a light - touch comedy, not free of sentimentality, about a young man, Tim (Domhnall Gleeson), from a wealthy, boho background in Cornwall, who bumbles his way through life and love but who has a power inherited from his dad (Bill Nighy): he can hold his eyes shut and go back in time.

«Little Accidents» carefully weaves together the stories of three individuals, paying close attention to the interplay of their different backgrounds: Amos, who lives with his father and has very little; Diana Doyle (Elizabeth Banks), a wealthy housewife who is married to Bill and has a son, JT; and Owen Briggs (Jacob Lofland, best known for his role as Neckbone in «Mud»), who lost his father in the accident and lives with his mother Kendra (Chloë Sevigny) and brother James (Beau Wright), who has Down syndrome.

The film's goofy narrative, wherein a PTSD - suffering bodyguard named Vincent (Matthias Schoenaerts) struggles to protect a wealthy Lebanese businessman's wife, Jessie (Diane Kruger), against perhaps - phantasmic threats, is wisely backgrounded in favour of moody, near - impressionistic glimpses of figures in crisis — that is, until it isn't, and the film takes a not - quite - fatal nosedive into movie - of - the - week cliché.

There's an age difference of about 10 - 15 years (he's older), and she comes from a wealthy background, while he grew up destitute.

Furthermore, children from poorer families are five times more likely to die as a result of accidents than those from wealthier backgrounds.

As for grammar schools, there is the stigma that these institutions are reserved for the children of the wealthy and middle class, with statistics that reflect that children from working class backgrounds are far less likely to obtain a place.

«Tackling absence from school is a key part of the government's determination to close the attainment gap between those from poorer and wealthier backgrounds.

«Obviously, a child considered poor in the United States may be regarded as relatively wealthy in another country,» he wrote, «but the fact that the perceived problem of socio - economic disadvantage among students is so much greater in the United States — and in France too — than the actual backgrounds of students also suggests that what school principals in some countries consider to be social disadvantage would not be considered such in others.»

Zimmer, King and Torlakson stayed away from some of less positive news from the test results, including that the achievement gaps between some minority groups and white students, and between students from economically challenged backgrounds and their wealthier peers, remained close to the same as last year.

And, once again, it is worth noting that, although many no - excuses students appear to outperform public - school students from similar backgrounds, their scores fall well short of those achieved by wealthier students.

They include Malcolm, a light - skinned African American architect from a wealthy background; JB, an occasional drug - using artist of Haitian ancestry (the author does a great job of describing his art — no easy task); Willem, the handsome actor who, as we first meet him, is, of course, waiting tables downtown; and, at center stage, Jude.

To the US Academy, graduates» blood is on your hands — yours and all your minions», in their infinitely variable guises (the loan officers and administrators, high school advisors who push - push - push college, university faculty and administrators who ply with spoken promises of a far better tomorrow post-graduation, and the online «experts» who keep parroting the hackneyed, specious line that college grads earn more (that, I'm confident, is an illusion of the social backgrounds of those who're employed, as the immensely wealthy father of a good friend of mine pointed out when he recently commented when I shared with him about the job insecurity - college degree paradox that he'd simply «manage my children's trust funds and get them placed at friends» companies.»

You're going to see more of like, the people who already have established families here, and have a wealthier background.

Shniberg, whose background is in data - mining tech startups, secured backing from investors such as Thomas Schimdheiny, the fourth - wealthiest man in Switzerland, Sir Harry Djanogoly, a prominent British philanthropist and art collector, and Raymond McGuire, the head of Global Banking at Citibank, investing on his own behalf.

It is the privilege of elderly natural history broadcasters from wealthy backgrounds to pronounce on what people with dark skin are doing wrong: existing in such numbers that offend him.

Then duh, there are thousands of seriously wealthy potential backers with solid engineering backgrounds.

It advises wealthy clients from both landed and commercial backgrounds on all aspects of probate and Court of Protection work.