Sentences with phrase «upper middle»

But resistance to such a discussion may be considerable in upper middle class congregations.

This results in teens from lower middle class areas being placed in upper middle - class homes.

Energy costs eat up ~ 4 % of the income of an middle to upper middle income family while it can eat up 20 % of the income of a low income household.

I manage stock and bond portfolios for upper middle class people, and for small institutions.

My SO comes from upper middle class, went to private school,.

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

This site is appropriate for upper middle school and high school students.

Kids well socialized by upper middle class parents are sensitive to these risks, and for the most part they keep their distance.

He loses his place in American upper middle class corporate hierarchy - you know the nice car, the nice house — and a sense of himself as somebody important.

The successful upper middle class now lives at a distance from everyone else.

A young upper middle class family is expecting the arrival of their third child, who is sadly born dead due to complications.

The couple raise him in a white privileged upper middle class environment, and he grows up with no access to his former family or culture, barely remembering his native tongue.

They're a typical upper middle class couple working in the civil service — and their combined pensions are worth a staggering $ 3 million.

Remember the statistic that 56 % of middle and upper middle income American families have credit card debt?

Similarly, many of the alternative care facilities, particularly foster homes, are in upper middle - class parts of the city.

I started thinking about the time I worked at a local summer camp and how much I enjoyed being with upper middle school students.

Interestingly, in the 28 years I live in rather upper middle class neighbourhood, nobody ever came to my house.

Many of these degrees (e.g., sociology, humanities, gender studies) are effectively worthless without pursuing a P.h.D. Even with a doctorate one would barely make it into upper middle class even as a professor.

This book that I summarized, like many others, do focus on upper middle class and upper class trends.

Boycotts of testing have sprung up in many upper middle class enclaves.

«Looking over the period of the consolidation as a whole, poorer households have done worse than those in the middle and upper middle parts of the income distribution, though it remains the case that the some of the biggest losers have been those right at the very top of the income distribution.»

Ulrich Thomsen and Trine Dyrholm costar as upper middle class intellectuals who inherit a big old house and decide to share it with their free - spirited friends.

Bake for 25 minutes, then move tray to upper middle rack of oven and bake for 15 more minutes until it becomes a deep golden color and temperature registers 185ºF.

Especially among upper middle class and affluent parents, there's a strong belief that going to a top - tier college — especially one in the Ivy League — will provide unimaginable advantages in the professional world.

With its 740 and 760 models, Volvo advanced into the so - called upper middle class of cars.

For that matter, marital discord and separation are topics unlikely for average upper middle class Americans to wrestle with in thoughtful and serious manner.

I came from a very comfortable upper middle class family in Orange county, California.

Kerobokan is a very sought after and posh area popular amongst Westerners and expats, full of stylish upper middle class into their organic cafes and yoga courses.

Based on a collection of short stories by James Franco, Palo Alto shares certain traits with Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring in that it looks at the lives of white upper middle class teenagers as they drift from party to party, occasionally attending college, constantly smoking dope and drinking, all the while moping about the place and discussing like, y ’ know, deep and meaningful stuff.

They are not upper middle class or even middle class but students from the most accidental of families, many of them minority students, kids who grow up in environments where people typically make bad choices.

In other words, even upper middle class wage earners will now be able to take the credit, explained Ashcroft.

Adjust oven rack to upper middle position and preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Miller adds» [Freilicher] would stubbornly pursue her own quiet «tentativeness» (as the poet and art critic John Ashbery once put it)... and pursue a more conventional upper middle class lifestyle.

Renwick's analysis of more than 300,000 vowel sounds finds, for example, that Southern upper middle class women are often at the extreme end of variation in pronunciation.

Whereas Chanel had no formal education but a great deal of experience of the ways of the world, Schiaparelli was from Italian upper middle - class academic stock, which gave her the assurance to make fashion not just amusing but outrageously so.

If we moved to using these richer measures in all of our schools, it could mean that not just upper middle class and affluent kids at schools like Sidwell Friends School, where President Obama's children attend, but poor public school kids too would be taught and expected to demonstrate the ability to think, express original ideas, problem solve, work in teams, do research papers and other kinds of projects requiring critical thinking.

The notion of trying to discover what one is good at or for, and shaping a career to realize these potentialities, would appear very upper middle class to many Americans, even today, when most aspire to college.

Enough Said is a romantic comedy - drama from Nicole Holofcener, the writer - director of other critically acclaimed films exploring the daily travails of mostly upper middle - class affluent women (and men) in such as Lovely & Amazing and Friends with Money — something that invites comparisons to the works of Woody Allen often.

The blindness and stupidity of the identity politics - obsessed upper middle class knows no bounds.

If that sounds off to you, keep in mind that Toronto's city limits are expansive and include neighbourhoods all over the economic map, while cities like Oakville have fewer poor areas and are more consistently upper middle class.

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.

Easier access to drugs will give upper middle class kids an even greater advantage over all the rest.

Liberated from food laws, these probably economically upper middle class Christians had become gluttonous.

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.