Sentences with phrase «upper classes would»

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.

FACT: If abortion, were again made illegal in any or all of the United States, women in the middle and upper classes would continue to travel to places where they can safely end their pregnancies.

But as these middle and upper classes have a lot of expendable, disposable income, they are turning to golf just as a friendly pursuit,» Dreyer said.

Crack was a cheap ghetto alternative, and its spread to the middle and upper classes has in part been a function of its low price.

At the beginning of the 20th century the promise of safer and less painful labor by the medical community resulted in more women of the upper classes having their babies in hospitals.

The samurai and upper classes had access to much more nourishing foods to supplement their diet, and weren't as likely to get Beriberi.

In fact, the three upper classes have the option to leave school for lunch, and many do grab something from the fast - food outlets near Fenway Park (about a hundred yards away).

Not exact matches

In an analysis of the changing shape of the American middle class, Pew Research Center divided the population into three groups: Lower - income Americans made less than 2/3 of the median household income, middle - income households had incomes between 2/3 and 200 % of the median, and upper - income households had income more than twice the median income.

«Any reductions we have in upper - income taxes will be offset by less deductions so that there will be no absolute tax cut for the upper class,» Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Nov. 30, 2016, in an interview on CNBC's «Squawk Box.»

The airline's perks and amenities, from its complimentary chauffeured pickups for upper class passengers to generous baggage allowances for passengers in coach, fits with Branson's whimsical disregard for convention which has made Virgin such a hit with its fiercely loyal customers.

Financial technology firm MarketX lets upper - middle class and institution Chinese investors to invest in tech firms that have not yet issued shares to the general public.

But then, that same justification doesn't apply to the upper - middle - class household paying under the table to have a deck built on the back of their suburban house.

As a former activist, she believes that it's hard to reach lower - income communities if you have a staff that's upper middle class.

No one has knows what to make of all this, other than to put it down to traditional English upper class eccentricity.

The assumptions of cutthroat libertarianism were so embedded in the worldview of these lucky newcomers that they spoke as though the victims of tech - fueled displacement and gentrification had chosen to live in poverty and squalor, just as they themselves chose to learn to code, chose a management - track job at a major corporation, and chose to set themselves up for a comfortable upper - middle - class suburban life.

I'm 13, live in an upper middle - class family, have good grades in school, and wan't to start planning out my future now.

McKinsey has predicted that more than half of China's urban households will be in the upper middle class by 2020, compared to 14 % in 2012.

But 4.8 percent of Americans would see taxes go up, with hikes concentrated in the upper middle class and among the very rich.

If you want much bigger government, you have to pay for it with broadly based taxes, even if the rich and upper middle class bear the biggest burdens.

And as we have all seen time and time again, it's what you do with the million that determines if you will truly be a part of those considered to have an upper class income.

To make a real dent, the super rich would need to pay even higher taxes, as would the upper - middle and middle classes.

Likewise, Clinton would limit itemized deductions, raise the estate tax and increase taxes on capital gains (profits from the sale of stocks and other assets held at least a year); these are concentrated among the wealthy and upper middle class.

With the cancellation of the health care levy (which it should be pointed out was graduated and not a flat amount like the old premium), and the NDP tax increases kicking in at 130K and not 100K like the Prentice budget, the NDP has made sure the upper middle class (and some of the upper class) are paying less taxes than under Prentice's budget.

Most middle - class taxpayers would land in the 12 percent bracket; upper - middle - class households go from the 25 percent bracket to 22 percent, or from 33 percent to 24 percent, or from 39.6 percent to 35 percent.

The woman would enjoy certain luxuries and entitlements simply for being upper middle class.

Imports / Exports are stand still, the banks have stopped taking any fixed assests and lands as bank guarantee towards taking loans to over come this situations where you can not find buyers paying good towards what you sell when you need financial liquidity... but these time you can not sell unless you will sell it at the lowest ever in the market...!?! Honestly tired of that now more than was tired before all that started but at least things were stable although many were deprived but managed to live by those upper hands / classes giving charity..

Middle and upper class couples limit their families, oftentimes because BOTH parents have careers they don't want to be derailed from for too long.

I have in mind writing an essay entitled «What the working class boy Jesus said that upset upper class limosine liberals.»

I point to the callous way in which upper - middle - class deconstructions of traditional morality have made marriage into a luxury good.

Social science data have shown that the decline in morality affects the working classes to a greater degree than the upper - middle and upper classes.

(Unlike elite universities, the military isn't an upper - middle - class institution, so a dysfunctional sexual culture there has received less media attention.)

If the Christ paradigm offers salvation to the rich via his identification with the oppressed masses in their struggle for justice, this route must really mean a greater enrichment of experience for that rich man than, let us say, the enjoyment of good books and music which the continued leisure of the upper class could have afforded him.

It would be very simple if the world was one neighbor hood and 75 % were middle class and 15 % were upper middle 5 % rich and 5 % poor.

We observe that there is no sphere of human society that is left untouched — working class, middle class, upper class, all have done, continue to do and will do evil things.

The plot of the film is deceptively simple: Elizabeth and Tony Jordan (played by Priscilla Shirer and T.C. Stallings), appear to have it all — living in an upper class neighborhood with their daughter Danielle (Alena Pitts), money is rolling in from Tony's job as a successful pharmaceutical salesman.

i am christian, but i'm also a college graduate and upper middle class and all the worldly things i have cause me to fail to be the person God wants me to be sometimes.

The home in which they live would suggest that they are among the upper - class members of West Bank society.

The plot fails, but not before we've had an insight into the huge power disparity between the upper and working - class characters.

Police and governmental controls on such groups — and they have in America always included a significant proportion of the common people as well as the upper classes — have been minimal compared to most European or Asian societies.

One might think that our white, upper - middle - class, nothing - but - the - best youngsters would respond positively to such concepts as «fairness» and «egalitarianism» — but apparently the best lesson we parents taught them was how to say No.

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.

But his key analytical model here, presented as a novel insight» that Progressivism was a movement of the middle class caught between perceived threats from the upper class above and the laboring and farming classes below» has been a commonplace of historiographical analysis since the 1950s.

Father Neuhaus has me as a defender of the spiritual life of today's upper middle class.

Sadly, the noble legacy of Christian progressivism and the Social Gospel movement has devolved to a narrow set of priorities that has everything to do with upper - middle - class preoccupations and very little to do with the needs of the poor.

Other churches such as Santa Maria dei Miracoli, having lost their parishioners or religious congregations, have dispensed with the daily or weekly mass altogether and have become galleries of sacred art, with the occasional Vivaldi concert or upper - class wedding.

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.

Change has affected not only the upper and middle classes.

Through movies, magazines and advertising the upper middle class has become «our reference point for what the American good life is supposed to look like and contain.»

Little by little, Tolstoy came to the settled conviction — he says it took him two years to arrive there — that his trouble had not been with life in general, not with the common life of common men, but with the life of the upper, intellectual, artistic classes, the life which he had personally always led, the cerebral life, the life of conventionality, artificiality, and personal ambition.

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.»