Sentences with phrase «ranks of the middle class»

It gives technologically savvy young people in countries like India livelihoods that move them into the ranks of the middle class.

China has a population of 1.3 B and the number of people reaching the ranks of the middle class is swelling enormously and in turn the amount of money leaving China for investment abroad is going up exponentially.

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Like other packaged food companies, it is betting that staking an early claim in countries with multiplying ranks of middle - class customers will secure its own future.

«The post-recession reality is that the customer base for businesses that appeal to the middle class is shrinking as the top tier pulls even further away... big stores and restaurants are chasing richer customers with a wider offering of high - end goods and services, or focusing on rock - bottom prices to attract the expanding ranks of penny - pinching consumers.»

Pollster Frank Graves says that while the middle class itself may be comfortable with the direction of the current Liberal government, the growing ranks of working class and poor aren't.

An Untouchable had no chance of becoming a Brahmin, and a member of the lower feudal orders had few opportunities to make it into the aristocracy, but the poor in a class society have at least a reasonable chance of making it into the middle class and some middle - class individuals do make it into the ranks of the rich.

From the top of the rankings to college football's middle class, Week 1 gave us a clearer picture of how this year's bowl slate might shake out, even if it's still too early to tell who will make the six - win cutline.

By 1850 pigeon racing was solidly established in Belgium, and Charles Dickens wrote, «The members of the Antwerp Pigeon Training Society were citizens of the middle class of Society, but in Belgium pigeon - training has its attractions even for persons of rank and wealth, many of whom are enthusiastic pigeon fanciers; indeed, pigeon flying is as fashionable an amusement in Belgium as horse - racing in England.

The story that needs to be told, therefore, is not necessarily one of the super-wealthy stealing our rights and liberty, but rather one of the traditional middle - classes increasingly joining the ranks of the poor and discovering what it really means to live without the financial security that affords effective civic participation.

The result of this long slide in teacher quality can be captured in multiple snapshots: the declining U.S. ranking on international education comparisons (down to middle of the pack), the embarrassing number of military applicants who get rejected (more than one in five does not meet the minimum standards for Army enlistment) and the astonishing rates of those needing remedial classes in college (as high as 40 percent).

Given my good fortune in having an open middle seat and the special attention of the First Class attendant, I thought the upgrade was very well worth it, and the flight ranked among the better in recent memory.