Sentences with phrase «only upper classes»

Only the upper class got the joke.

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At the other extreme, «there are several pockets in which only the upper - middle class and above can afford to own even the average home, most notably across the West and in the Northeast,» How Much notes.

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

A common frustration shared by both family offices and those hoping to work with family offices is the experience of a person misrepresenting themselves as a family office or ultra-high-net-worth individual only to find that the person is either exaggerating, lying, or simply misunderstanding the distinction between a large single family office and an upper - class family.

Which means as long as we adopt progressive, upper - middle - class attitudes that function well only if you're actually upper - middle - class.

The working class was «liberal» only on the first, while intellectuals and the middle - to - upper classes favored all four.

Although in surveys 40 percent of the new upper class today describe themselves as «very happy,» only 15 percent of statistical Fishtown do so.

Only gradually was it recognized that the talking therapies were really more consistent with the introspective and verbal styles of the middle - class and upper middle - class people they were originally developed to help.

Change has affected not only the upper and middle classes.

But for Lowell, Boston had only a «savage servility»: a parking lot was being dug under the Common, and the Public Gardens, once reserved for the upper class, were now taken over by the «mid-Sunday Irish.»

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.

Only minorities among the upper classes were seriously affected.

Consider what we know about the people buried in Galilee and Jerusalem — and remember, only people who were middle and upper - middle class, and thus had better diets, got buried in the tombs we've discovered.

Dictator Hugo Chavez shuttered courses across the country during his reign, proclaiming the sport one for the upper - class only and a last vestige of the U.S. - installed capitalist structure.

The stroller became a status symbol as only the upper - class population could afford such luxury.

It's implicit in the price tag that these dolls are for middle to upper middle class girls only.

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.

But only middle and upper classes across the world; still, most of the overweight and obese in the world is in the low and middle - income population.

Like much research into natural sciences, botany was the preserve of the upper classes who had the time and money: only gentleman titans of 18th and 19th - century science like Joseph Banks could push botany forward.

In contrast, the upper classes would only have fought in a more formal duel system, perhaps involving swords, horses or jousting lances, in which the opponents would have had armour to protect their heads.

«Health benefits of the Mediterranean diet are confirmed, but just for the upper class: Only the most advantaged people actually benefit from the Mediterranean diet, Italian study says.»

The bad news: Only 1.5 people are eating the «ideal» healthy diet, and, of those who are eating better generally, most are white and middle to upper class.

HIIT classes are great but if your legs are already really muscular, I would perhaps only 2 days of this and 1 day of something like boxing that is HIIT based but more focused on upper body xx

Many people believe that only the upper - class is buying organic food, but in reality, EVERYONE is starting to demand organic food and that's great news for the movement.

The twenty - minute floor component of the class strengthens the upper body and core, and stretches every muscle properly — sealing the deal for a true full body workout in only an hour.

Basically, as only upper - class people used to wear them, the red trousers received the stigma of a posh - up - himself - ignorant - man.

The notion that women should «marry up» endured well past the heyday of British gentry, as that's the only way that women can reach the upper - class status instead of born to be.

In stage plays like «Fan» and «The Importance of Being Earnest,» Wilde used wickedly sharp dialogue and glittering farce as scalpels, laying open the hypocrisies of an Edwardian upper - class audience that only felt the sting on the hansom - cab ride home.

Game Night seems to be setting up Max and Annie as a high - achieving upper - middle - class power couple, but it turns out that where real life is concerned, they're only in the middle of the pack.

The subject — a disastrous honeymoon on the Dorset coast in 1962 — can only be explained by digging into the backgrounds of Florence (Saoirse Ronan), a bright, rebellious violinist from upper - middle - class parents (Samuel West, Emily Watson), and Edward (Billy Howle), an earnest history graduate snootily regarded by his in - laws as a country bumpkin.

His link to the outside world is his upper - middle class bother Tony (Obba Babatunde), the only family member who's come to visit him in the half - decade he's been in jail.

Though sometimes superficially seen as stuffy portraits of upper - class life, the recent and ongoing 4K restorations of their work by Cohen Media Group has only enhanced the films» intimacy of character and pristine economy of storytelling.

Like most teenagers, they find the upper grades to be a bit challenging — especially since they are only eight inches tall and forced to navigate the crowded halls between classes.

The only one of his films set in the present day, Safe stars Julianne Moore in one of her earliest upper - class California housewife roles.

The woman most likely to emerge from this Tudors-esque affair with a crown is costume designer Lisy Christl, whose only true claim to fame thus far is her work on the upper - middle - class threads in Michael Haneke's Caché.

Todd Haynes's own gorgeous replica has them both beat: His sexually neglected heroine (a flawless Julianne Moore) not only earns the opprobrium of her uptight, upper - class community by becoming romantically linked to a «Negro,» but she now has a gay husband (Dennis Quaid) as well.

This time, it's Sandra's inability to look beyond her upper - class privilege that means that she must re-evaluate not only her class and rank, but her priorities about love and life.

Charming film that follows the lives and loves of three young Portuguese - American women (two sisters and their best friend) who work at the best pizza parlour in Mystic, Connecticut, and mix not only with tourists but with rich upper - class neighbours (look out for a young Matt Damon in a small role in a dinner table scene).

The story follows the triumphs and travails of young Paddington (voiced by Ben Whishaw), a Peruvian bear who arrives in England and is quickly taken in, but only as a temporary stopgap, by an upper - middle - class family.

Snowpiercer is, though not only, a film about class struggle, for we enter this world at a time when the oppressed inhabitants of the so called «tail section» prepare for a rebellion against those in the front section and implicitly — against the upper class.

Forced to work as a burglar for a criminal syndicate, Lake breaks into an upper - class home — only to encounter a strange, ethereal woman with whom he falls in love.

We need to improve identification and eligibility criteria and procedures, including multiple gateways and types of data to make sure we aren't only identifying the same «type» of student (usually upper - middle class white students, who tend to behave in ways pleasing to mostly - white teachers) and neglecting minorities and English Language Learners.

Segment - exclusive technologies once found only on higher classed SUVs The all - new 2015 Jeep Renegade offers technology features once found only in upper - segment vehicles, and makes them attainable to customers in the growing small SUV segment — including award - winning Uconnect Access, Uconnect touchscreens and the segment's largest full - color instrument cluster.

Currently, General Motors offers the most powerful V - 8 in the half - ton class — the Corvette - derived 6.2 - liter with 420 horsepower and 460 pound - feet of torque, available only in the upper trims of the Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra.

As potato says, «If you're in a middle tax bracket, you should be saving more than $ 5k / year anyway», but I would further state if you run numbers for a middle to upper class Canadian and they have pension splitting, in most cases you would have a 40 - 46 % deduction on the RRSP and only a 20 % -25 % tax coming out, thus the RRSP maybe beneficial in the first place vs the TFSA.

His hunting ability locked in his appeal to the aristocracy, for sport hunting was the province only of the upper classes.

Preceptors are encouraged to obtain feedback from all practice personnel as to the student's progress and performance during the course, but only preceptors should directly monitor and evaluate the required Course Task Checklists in upper tier classes.

He spoke only in English — the soldiers standing behind him would not have understood much — to show he was one of us: well - educated, upper - class, urbane.

This example itinerary in business class includes only five stopovers (ITA has an upper limit on the number of flight segments) and travels a total distance of 21,556 miles.