Sentences with phrase «status symbols»

Amex cards have typically been seen as status symbols and prestigious to own.

Ornamental dogs had been used as status symbols the world over for centuries.

Uncaring owners have taken a friendly breed and through lack of training and socialization, made their dogs aggressive either to fight other dogs or as status symbols.

Normally no, however the practices employed by some owners who have the dogs as status symbols can produce an aggressive animal purely due to the dog's willingness to please their owner.

Dogs are NOT and SHOULD N'T BE status symbols or symbols of brute strength.

The people creating the most problem with dogs are: those using dogs as status symbols for the wrong reasons; undereducated owners who do not realize the time it takes to properly raise any dog; those who unintentionally allow undesired behaviors to grow and fail to address them.

Dogs are not status symbols to be stuck in the yard to make you look good.

Animals are thinking, feeling, loving beings, not status symbols.

These animals are used to gain profit, for fighting and entertainment, and they serve as status symbols for most of the people living in the city.

What breed is most often exploited at this time, as status symbols for doing bad things, guarding drugs, belonging to gangs, and in dog fighting?

For still others, there is the negative idea of them being status symbols for the rich.

They are peppering the media with things like, «experts say» these dogs used to be status symbols.

«Dogs were made to be friends not exhibits, status symbols or «positional goods» that demonstrate their owner's aesthetic sensibilities, status, income or fastidious good taste.

Animals should not be treated as possessions, and in a humane world, would not be bought and sold, used as status symbols, or otherwise exploited.

These modest millionaires have stayed away from the debt treadmill and they don't have the status symbols to show for it.

They are luxury products that act as status symbols.

That shows you how much they care about status symbols.

«Books are status symbols, you can't really see what someone has read on their Kindle,» Mitchell said.

A journey across six continents to uncover the secrets behind one of our most luxurious and costly status symbols.

Horsepower and performance specs have never felt more like status symbols than they do now.

There's status symbols and then there's the Duesenberg Model J. Normally car companies would pay celebrities to pose with their product to promote their brand.

Rare, whether due to price or low production numbers, and highly sought after as almost universally - recognized status symbols, high - end sports cars are the ones we all had posters of on the walls of our childhood bedrooms.

There are few wheeled status symbols more potent than a British Range Rover, the elite of Land Rover's on / off - road vehicles.

Why did I waste so many years and dollars on those stupid German status symbols??? I'm out of my free service period, so I had to pay for my last service.

Then came the Roadster and the Model S, Tesla which flipped the script, and turned the green machines into status symbols.

Economy cars has always been available, but did not sell nearly as well as large and comfu gas - guzzler... status symbols... safety... and many excuses for buying big and livin» large!

Alfa Romeo realized that its cars were becoming status symbols, and the company began to consider mass production.

Except for that one awkward moment, Automobile Magazine's test of the world's top two automotive status symbols could not have fared better.

Unlike the Range Rover, an S - class can't ford three feet of water, but celebrities, athletes, and the wealthy use both vehicles as status symbols.

«High - end SUVs are big, heavy, imposing, luxury status symbols, while Bentleys are. . .

The steel rotors are the proper choice here; overused as status symbols, carbon ceramics tend to be awful in the real world with noise and vibration that aren't worth their excessive cost in daily use.

Things like clothes, automobiles, and houses become status symbols.

Ditch The Status Symbols And Get Cozy.

It's simple, these coats are luxe status symbols, what make you look rich and gracious.

We are in a world where these things are touted as important status symbols and steps toward success, but they are not accessible for most people.

Case and his colleagues concluded that most were used for military purposes, such as spotting distant ships or approaching troops, or were simply collected as status symbols, before they achieved widespread scientific use.

He adds that the majority of the materials, recovered from tombs, provide a glimpse of the wealth in the community, because status symbols were buried with the dead during this period.

Because these status symbols are relatively low cost from a biological standpoint, scientists have long wondered why there aren't more fakers — that is, low - ranking individuals masquerading as high - ranking ones — in the wild.

Evidence shows that in Germany, where these little mannequins originated, doctors used these dolls not as explanatory aids but rather as status symbols, conveying the doctor's expertise of the female body.

Many are sold as food, many are slaughtered and sold as parts for «medicinal» purposes and aphrodisiacs, and many are huge, high - stakes status symbols for the wealthy elite — such as tigers, monkeys and Komodo dragons.»

Simply saying «oh, aren't they silly and old fashioned status symbols!»

Some European - made antique carriages are status symbols for celebrities such as Madonna and Celine Dion, who spent $ 2,600 on the classic Balmoral Pram, described by some Web reviewers as a tiny Humvee.

Carriers as status symbols within their closed community.

Ms. Agrell suggests that stamps in children's passports are merely status symbols for the aforementioned «affluent, affected parents», and even quotes the godfather of travel guidebooks, Arthur Frommer, as questioning how children or parents benefit from family travel.

That's because these bumper stickers are status symbols, like carrying the right purse or driving the right SUV.

That's how parents can sound about their own children, unaware that their miniature status symbols are only of utmost importance to them.

They didn't need their children to be their status symbols.

Joe Coffman skillfully managed to commit his group to a post-SMU-game party (or pre-Texas-OU-game party) in the cultural suburbs, where the status symbols are a lawn of St. Augustine grass and a full - growing mimosa tree.

But I'm not a slave to status symbols.

For many of them, tax exempt status, full donations plates and status symbols trump Jesus, Harry Jackson included.