Sentences with phrase «upper classes who»

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.

The Church thinks that loud bands, trendy vicars, comfy seats, child minding and a cafe will bring um in, give me a break, when I first got the call, the Church then was cold, hard pews, poor lighting, a choir who thought they were Gods gift to the world, toffy nosed upper classes who looked down their noses at me and the divorced, but I didn't care, I loved it and joined in the singing except when it was in latin.

They go to the middle and upper classes who can now afford to buy automobiles and television sets.

Popular among hunters for the breed's hunting and retrieving skills, the poodle began making waves with ladies of the upper class who thought the natural curly coat and affectionate nature of the breed were appealing.

According to his tax calculations, «the heirs [to the] middle - upper class who are moderately wealthy due to property and retirement plans will pay significantly more unless Congress acts to change the law.

Not exact matches

Both Saks and Nordstrom are chasing similar demographics, an upper middle - class shopper who values both style and quality in fashion.

Among those who are upper class, eight - in - ten describe their financial situation as excellent or good.

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Instead, it belongs to an eager representative of China's exploding upper class, a 31 - year old bank manager in Shanghai who is watching proudly as Bob McDonald, the CEO of Procter & Gamble (pg), inspects the contents of her bathroom cabinet.

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Any real estate agent who wants to work with upper middle class or high net worth Chinese buyers should study her life story.

Chang — who said upper - middle - class investors are buying smaller apartments for themselves or their children — said that his Beijing contacts expect investment to pick up now that the Communist Party's 19th Congress is in the rearview mirror.

Now any attempt to abstract a person is going to be of limited utility, but I let's try this point of view: maybe Obama is, on domestic policy, a mostly unreconstructed 1970s upper middle - class left - liberal who.

The face of addiction a generation ago was that of the working - class or upper - middle - class man, probably long and intimately known to his neighbors, who stood up at an AA meeting in a church basement and bluntly said, «Hi, I'm X, and I'm an alcoholic.»

Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisitedby philip eadehenry holt, 432 pages, $ 32 Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was born in 1903 to upper - middle - class Anglicans who lived in a suburb of London.

Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was born in 1903 to upper - middle - class Anglicans who lived in a suburb of London.

What happens to middle and upper class women who travel abroad for an abortion?

Those who choose this approach must beware lest they end up as self - centered and self - righteous communities of upper middle class people playing at being poor, preoccupied with their own problems and contributing little or nothing to helping others or to resolving the world's problems.

For instance, feminists disagree on the interpretation of Swept Away, a Lina Wertmuller film that portrays an upper - class woman who is sexually dominated by her servant and who eventually begins to enjoy the domination.

Here is a story about a young man in my area who came from a upper middle class home, mother and father married, never divorced.

Young people who, as adults, merely retain the same level of upper - middle - class success that their parents have can regard themselves as standing still or coasting on the momentum acquired by their forebears.

On the upper classes in the school I found they were just like protestants and catolics, fighting about who of them were right.

One of the things I have respected most in Aida Rosa, principal of the elementary school P.S. 30, and the teachers that I talk with on her staff is that they look at children here as children, not as «distorted children,» not as «morally disabled children,» not as «quasi-children» who require a peculiar arsenal of reconstructive strategies and stick - and - carrot ideologies that wouldn't be accepted for one hour by the parents or the teachers of the upper middle class.

Two other examples were Matteo Ricci (1552 - 1610), who adopted the opposite path to de Nobili by assimilating into upper - class Chinese society during the Ming dynasty, coming to China in 1580, eventually undergoing a profound cultural transformation as a Confucian scholar; and Charles de Foucauld, who served in the French army in the Algerian war where he witnessed moving scenes of Muslim personal piety, leading him to regain his own Christian faith, and becoming in everything a Tuareg Bedouin nomad.

Unlike the Europeans, who held that good manners were the property of the upper classes, Americans nourished the conceit that anybody could learn etiquette.

Even many of those who favor lower taxes (or at least oppose higher taxes) and abortion restrictions don't know the Republican Party as anything other than a vehicle for upper - class interest group politics and white identity politics.

Pieter Dirk Uys, a cabaret satirist who often does his stand - up routines in drag, plays an upper - class «English» matron who between bon - bons confesses her enormous hatred of apartheid - and of blacks, too, of course.

Rick Perry may truly be a religious man, but I keep reading between the lines that he is a man who has demonstrated that he can be bought for the right price, does not care much about the environment, people except for the upper class, and who shuns science in favor of the party line and cash in pocket.

The new government RE bursaries are worth # 4,000 a year for students who hold an upper second - class honours degree, rising to # 9,000 a year for those who have a first - class honours degree.

It is not a theology by the people — the oppressed and suffering — who would not certainly employ the tools and resources of the upper castes and classes.

Middle or upper class Americans who feel depressed can be doubly assaulted, first by their emotional condition and second by their knowledge that, compared to those in the developing world, they still have so much to be thankful for even if they can find no thanks to give.

I know of many groups who are very exclusive, meaning they exclude anyone who does not meet their standards, such as you need to be at least upper middle class, white and live in a good neighborhood to be part of the group.

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.

Sure, OG is a strength of this class, but for us to land an upper and mid-tier guy is a bit of a luxury especially considering how much Zimmer is impressed with Isidora, who could end up competing with Easton for a starting spot.

The Irish are there with the usual peppering of priests; and the English are represented by upper - class Hooray Henries in de rigueur brown fedoras, as well as by Union Jack - wearing skinheads who have mistaken this for the Liverpool versus Rome soccer game.

I honestly believe that the board who are incidentally ALL landed gentry and upper class silver spoon, merchant bankers and old money doyens are more than happy with the way the business wheels turn and really don't give a sh!t about silverware and honours AND THATS why Wenger has kept his job so long without delivery.

Since then it is Arsenal who have had the upper hand, notably when beating the Blues in the FA Cup Final and in this season's Community Shield, despite being classed as the underdogs.

While there are a few who are vocal, like Against Equality, there is «a generation of upper - middle - class white lesbians and gays» who are «already enamored by the idea of marriage,» says Laurie Essig, a professor of sociology at Middlebury College, in the Salon article Will marriage change gay love?

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What about mothers from the Philippines, Mexico, Guatemala and elsewhere who leave their children behind to raise the children of America's middle - and upper - classes; are they good mothers?

I personally will never forget Denny Barrett, a middle or upper middle class father who is so food - ignorant that he feels he has no choice but to rely on fast food to feed his kids.

Doctors, who at time were predominantly men, became to chosen caregiver for a pregnant woman in the upper classes.

It seems to me that a lot of the excitement around noncognitive skills comes from middle class and upper - middle class parents who want to know how their children can be as successful as possible in an ever more competitive world.

In 17th century England, for instance, it was typically upper - class women who hired wet nurses, while working - class women nursed their own children.

From 1983 to 1992, I collected data on the pregnancy and childbirth experiences of 100 middle and upper - middle class mainstream pregnant women and mothers, and on the health professionals (physicians, nurses, midwives, childbirth educators) who care for them, through observation and interviews in hospitals, offices, and homes.

There are a lot of upper middle class women who will ask indignantly, «Isn't this just for wealthy women?»

People who were shut out of the upper middle class until then and became union leaders instead, were coopted into the establishment based upon their abilities and the content of their character.

There are vast swathes of voters in the UK who are socially conservative but economically left - wing, and expect the state to support them against the middle and upper - classes.

Even among those who consider themselves upper or upper - middle class, fully 52 % say upper - income people pay too little.

People who belong to the enlightened, cosmopolitan, middle and upper classes often argue that right - wing populism is the result of a demagoguery that is especially attractive to uneducated people from the lower classes.