Sentences with phrase «upper year class»

I have been teaching an upper year class for about 10 years now that focuses students on what «type» of lawyer they want to be — meaning not whether they practice family, or criminal or general litigation but WHO they want to be as a lawyer and what type of service they see themselves as offering to their clients.

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«More people entered the upper class than ever last year.»

From these statistics, and from talking to retirees and their advisers, it's fair to estimate that a typical middle - class retirement costs roughly $ 40,000 to $ 60,000 per couple per year, while an «upper middle - class» retirement costs in the range of $ 60,000 to $ 70,000 per couple per year.

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.

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.

According to Rah, «fifty years ago, if you were asked to describe a typical Christian in the world, you could confidently assert that person to be an upper middle - class, white male, living in an affluent and comfortable Midwest suburb.

What is patent in the law in England is the effort of the jurists and parliamentarians to maintain the status quo and upper - class status and privilege until the industrial revolution, when the lower classes were eventually able to win the franchise and some [place] for themselves in governance after years of effort and much resistance.

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.

In the upper and middle middle - class parish, turnover of parishioners, from the writer's own experience, is nearly 20 per cent a year.

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.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D - N.Y.) said the Senate plan, like the House bill, would harm middle and upper middle - class taxpayers on Long Island and in suburbs across the country — and warned House Republicans voting for their bills they could face defeat next year.

In his second year he dropped philosophy, and was awarded an upper second class Bachelor of Arts degree.

In excerpts from the interviews posted online, it sounds like the 23 - year - old is looking to make apologies and mend her ways.Growing up in New Jersey, Dupre says, she was a «happy» upper middle class kid.

It's that time of year again, when upper - middle class white parents get worked up about tests in school.

State officials, as they did last time, framed this year's opt - out movement as largely a middle - and upper - middle - class phenomenon.

With a year left, you can also take some of the «intro» classes for your new field, or if those are too broad (given your background), think about taking an upper level techniques class or a graduate seminar (even if it seems way over your head).

Previously discovered upper - jaw fossils classed as H. habilis, and dating back as far as 2.3 million years ago, look too different from the newly reconstructed jaw to belong to the same species, says Spoor's team.

Open to local and international applicants with a first or second upper class honors degree or a GPA of 3.8 and above in relevant disciplines, successful candidates will be supported for up to 5 years of postgraduate studies, including up to 2 years of overseas attachment.

In fact, in my last year of competition, as a world class, extremely «fit» athlete, I experienced eight upper respiratory infections!

Today, the 42 - year - old sits at a single desk, framed by a high shelf lined with photographs, print campaigns and other ephemera that document the story of Rag & Bone, a brand as deeply rooted in Wainwright's upper class British background as his life in New York and his personal connection to America's shrinking manufacturing base.

Students who have signed up fall between the range of 21 - 27 years old, mostly coming from upper and middle class backgrounds.

Three years before getting caught, Bridget (Diane Keaton) lived a comfortable upper class life until her husband Don (Ted Danson) was fired from his position and sunk into debt.

While we've certainly seen stories that satirize society's upper class and upend their addiction to manners to great comic effect, this series hinges on a dazzling performance by Cumberbatch that reminds us why he's become one of the internet's most obsessive riddles of the past eight years.

For years, Harry dated from the usual pool of upper - class women.

They play two upper - class teen girls in suburban Connecticut who rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of growing apart.

Two of the best young actresses today, Anya Taylor - Joy and Olivia Cooke, play upper - class teen girls in suburban Connecticut who rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of growing apart.

For her second narrative feature Los Perros, which premiered in Le Semane de Critique at this year's Cannes Film Festival, Marcela tells the story of an upper - class housewife whose complicated relationship with her horse - riding instructor forces her to confront her family's complicity in the oppressive regime that gave her a life of privilege.

The most subtle of all the selections this year are almost certainly Rooney Mara's interpretation of Therese Belivet, a young lesbian who falls for an older, more sophisticated and upper - class woman named Carol (Cate Blanchett, herself in the running for Best Leading Actress); and Rachel McAdams» resilient and emotionally restrained Sacha Pfeiffer, a Boston Globe reporter who helped expose the decades - long cover up of the Catholic church's involvement in child molestation at the hands of Boston area priests.

Based on the best - selling novel of the same name by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun stars Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) and Thandie Newton (The Pursuit of Happyness) as an upper class couple whose marriage is put to the test when Nigeria breaks into the crippling 1967 civil war that births the short - lived republic of Biafra.

The year is 1958, the place New York, and Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) is leading the life of the upper - class housewife she'd always imagined for herself... until, that is, her husband, a would - be standup comic, blames her for his failures and takes off, leaving Midge alone with two young children and an upended life.

Starring The Witch's Anya Taylor - Joy and Bates Motel's Olivia Cooke as disturbingly emotionless upper - class teenagers who plot to kill one girl's stepfather after rekindling their childhood friendship, the film was a favorite of our own A.A. Dowd at last year's Sundance Film Festival, where he called it a «razor - witted black comedy» that's «superbly unpredictable, moving fluidly into thriller territory and back again.»

There was the feral teen assassin raised in a frozen wilderness in Joe Wright's Hanna; a southern gothic drifter in Ryan Gosling's neon - drenched noir fairytale Lost River; a 200 - year - old vampire in Neil Jordan's Byzantium; a deeply homesick Irish immigrant in John Crowley's Brooklyn; and the solemn upper - class English girl with impeccable clipped vowels whose single wicked lie precipitates tragedy in Atonement, a role that won her her first Oscar nomination aged just 13.

The five - part series «Patrick Melrose» follows an upper - class Englishman on a 40 - year journey of recovery from horrific childhood abuse, addiction and the soul - killing snobbery of his milieu.

Ozu returned from China in the same year as the Motion Picture Law was introduced, and wrote a screenplay that was deemed unworkable by its script - vetting system (because of its upper - class milieu).

Two upper - class teenage girls in suburban Connecticut rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of growing apart.

Season one saw upper - middle - class parents of two, Frances (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Robert (Thomas Haden Church), descend into an increasingly hostile separation after 10 years of marriage.

Moonrise Kingdom Year: 2012 Director: Wes Anderson At the time of making Moonrise Kingdom, after seven features, Wes Anderson became unmistakable: white, upper - middle - class dysfunctional families deadpan wry dialogue amid meticulous mise - en - scène to an eclectic soundtrack.

That same year, he played a prissy upper - class twit in the elegant literary drama «A Room With a View,» a one - two punch of supporting performances that announced his versatility and earned him the Best Supporting Actor award from the New York Film Critics.

Surrounded by the upper class, Chris has trouble feeling at home, especially when he learns that young black men have gone missing from the area for several years, and two of the parents» employees might be connected to these disappearances.

One can't help but wonder if the film's winning is a spiritual consolation prize to last year's snubbed Palme d'Or favorite, Maren Ade's Toni Erdmann (2016), another sprawling dramedy focusing on spiritually deadened members of Europe's upper class thrust into a series of surreal happenings.

While criticisms against Anderson are often levelled against his upper middle - class bias and his man - child protagonists, his ninth feature Isle of Dogs has awakened a familiar debate over the responsibility of representation and cultural appropriation which has engulfed discussions of the film since its premiere at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year.

Green sheet is for the more able I used these sheets in my upper set Year 5 maths class at the start of the week to figure what they knew about weight / measure converting.

asks a Brooklyn mother of three who has been working in education for nearly 20 years, «When upper - middle - class charter parents start bragging to their friends?»

It would have been unthinkable 10 years ago: middle - and upper - class New Orleanians clamoring to get their 5 - year - olds into a C - graded public school.

Opting out of state tests has made waves for the last couple of years as mostly White parents in mostly upper - middle class neighborhoods rallied students to opt - out of state tests.

Now, a year later, another charter group is looking to break new ground here by tailoring a school for all economic backgrounds, including middle and upper class — and this time, there are no signs of a looming fight.

In his brief remarks, the former president did not once mention expanding preschool — the education plank that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a potential 2016 presidential contender, has embraced with a campaign focused on the «word gap» between what poor children and middle - and upper - class children hear in their earliest years.

For the 2012 - 2013 school year, the modular buildings will house upper level English and social studies classes, choir and band, a weight and fitness room, a workshop for engineering and 3D art programs and possibly a parent center.

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Targeted to cater to the upper middle class in the age group of 35 - 40 years, the mid-size sedan which will compete with likes of Honda City, Maruti Suzuki Ciaz and Hyundai Verna will be positioned between compact sedan Etios and premium sedan Corolla.