Sentences with phrase «social echelon»

«Wet nurses were usually from a lower social echelon,» she explained, «and were likely exposed to more infectious agents.

Emma Thompson won an Academy Award for her dynamic portrayal of Margaret Schlegel, a flighty yet compassionate middle - class intellectual whose friendship with the dying wife (Vanessa Redgrave) of rich capitalist Henry Wilcox (Anthony Hopkins) commences an intricately woven tale of money, love, and death that encompasses the country's highest and lowest social echelons.

Not exact matches

However, if the vulgar incomes of the richest Americans result from relaxed social norms rather than from productive forces inherent in the market economy, as Krugman surmises, then social and political changes, such as those advocated by Hollenbach and Hicks, can extend the structure of accountability to these upper echelons of the income scale.

Yet with Milner's new - found love of social media, his rise to that echelon is inevitable.

This side dominated social media in driving home their simple (if largely untrue) claims and anti-establishment, anti-elitist message (although all were part of the upper echelons of both establishment and elite).

Described by Tom Wolfe as «the folk heroes of every social climber who ever hit New York» — Robert was a high school drop - out from the Bronx — the Sculls shrewdly recognized that establishing themselves as influential art collectors offered access to the upper echelons of Manhattan society in a way that nouveau riche «taxi tycoon» did not.

The campaign material, which raised questions about the long - term environmental and social impacts of the dam and foreign investments, reached the upper echelons of government, including the vice president's office.

In my opinion, her biggest achievement has been her ability, despite climbing the legal echelons to success, to maintain her initial focus, which was the promotion of human rights, social justice, the right to equality and her commitment to serve her community.