Sentences with phrase «wealthy city family»

In the intervening years, he had been taken from his family, fostered to a wealthy city family, placed in a leading private school and given the benefit of social opportunity.

Not exact matches

New York is the favorite city of the world's wealthy, as measured by where they want to put their families and their money, according to a new report.

The city is known for its historic estates built on the high bluffs that overlook the Ohio River, which were originally summer homes for wealthy Louisville families.

But gentrification in many of the city's neighborhoods has become a sore spot as single - family bungalows are replaced by high - density townhouses for younger, wealthier residents.

In those cities, no one but the very wealthy can reasonably expect to buy single - family homes in or near the city core, so development is concentrated in multiples.

And more recently, Catholic schools and Lutheran schools have demonstrated a staunch commitment to urban education — at a time when many wealthier families fled from our nation's cities.

Philo of Alexandria belonged to a wealthy and politically influential family; he was well educated in Greek rhetoric and philosophy; but he stated that as a Jew his native city (patris) was Jerusalem.

Though I wrote these words eight years ago, I don't think the concerns of sports moms have changed all that much and that what I said then largely still hold true today, although I think, if I were to update the list of concerns, I would probably add two more: fifth, that mothers want a more inclusive youth sports experience that is affordable to all families, regardless of socio - economic status or whether they live in a wealthy suburb or an economically disadvantaged inner city neighborhood, and sixth, that mothers want a better balance between sports and family life (a problem I explored in the book and on these pages, but that, if anything, has gotten worse, not better, in the last eight years).

There are many other traces of the Roman Empire to be found walking around the city including the Barrio del Foro Romano (the Roman baths) and the House of Fortuna which sadly was shut when we got there, it's a building that was once the home of a wealthy family dating back to 1AD.

«From taxing the wealthy to fund universal pre-K and after - school programs to ending unnecessary subsidies to big corporations and investing in our CUNY system, Bill will be an ally for working families in City Hall.

In a tweet early Friday, Richard Carranza referenced reporter Lindsay Christ's coverage of a recent meeting on the Upper West Side at P.S. 199, one of the city's whitest schools with many students from wealthy families.

«Rather than sending the bill to working families, and subway and bus riders already feeling the pressure of rising fares and bad service, we are asking the wealthiest in our city to chip in a little extra to help move our transit system into the 21st century,» de Blasio, who is running for re-election, said in an emailed statement Monday.

«Rather than sending the bill to working families and subway and bus riders already feeling the pressure of rising fares and bad service, we are asking the wealthiest in our city to chip in a little extra to help move or transit system into the 21st century,» de Blasio said in a statement.

As our Public Health Department knows, these drugs are non-discriminatory: they affect poor inner city youth, blue collar rural families as well as wealthy professional suburbanites.

E.J. McMahon, founder and research director for the conservative Empire Center for Public Policy, explained how, using the example of a family with a $ 300,000 mortgage, which is common in the New York City suburbs and not altogether rare in wealthier Buffalo suburbs.

«A minor tax on the wealthy to fund these programs, and to provide a stable funding source, is overwhelmingly supported by working families in New York City and this state,» said Stuart Appelbaum, head of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union.

Then finally, as Gotham City festers under the influence of drug lords and hardened gangsters, the wealthy heir begins to realize his responsibility to the family name.

MAN ON FIRE (Grade: B): In this remake of a flop 1987 vigilante movie, Denzel Washington plays a washed - up, alcoholic, ex-CIA operative who goes on the vengeance trail when he flubs his last - chance job as bodyguard to a wealthy Mexico City family.

This ambitious comedy - drama centers on the Tenenbaums, a wealthy, prominent family living in a slightly fairy tale-esque version of New York City.

She comes from one of those wealthy, West Wing liberal families that loves to tell Black people how much they love Obama and how tragic the plights of the inner city are — that is to say, well - meaning, but irritatingly so.

The city has a median family income of $ 102,611 as of 2000, which places it among the top 100 wealthiest places in the United States with at least 1,000 households.

Maria is from a wealthy family based in Mexico City.

Wealthy families can send their kids to prestigious prep schools like Choate, Loomis, or Hotchkiss while families who don't have the same resources are often relegated to the district schools in their cities and towns, even if they're not working for their kids.

Jackson's Letter to the Editor was written in response to another Letter published last week, in which Judith Kafka, a professor at City University of New York, argued for increased school integration for children from low - income, middle - class and wealthy families.

Streets will not necessarily be safer nor families wealthier if a subset of city students score a half of a standard deviation, for example, higher on a government - issued test (though that would be nice).

Bair, having been superintendent in wealthy cities such as Lexington, Massachusetts and Carmel, California, had no experience within cities such as Hartford, where the exodus of white families to the surrounding suburbs contributed to the decrease of white students in Hartford schools and the increase of minority students, in this case black and Puerto Rican students.

While folks with condescending «pull yourself up by the bootstraps» attitudes love the idea of a neighborhood public school system, they most often use this system when they can afford to move their families to the suburbs and wealthier, gentrified city enclaves.

In 2014, Wolfgang Ziebart, the then group engineering director, hinted at JLR's electrification plans, predicting that the market for EVs was going to split into inner - city vehicles and a «second or third car for a wealthy family».

Kemal, scion of one of the city's wealthiest families, is about to become engaged to Sibel, daughter of another prominent family, when he encounters Füsun, a beautiful shopgirl and a distant relation.

Amir, a little boy growing up in the early 1970's in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, has the idyllic life, a wealthy father Baba, a widower, the mother died giving birth to Amir, he believes, the father hates him for that, in the most beautiful house some say in the city, a great friend Hassan, the son of Ali, a servant and loyal to the family.

Born in 1905 to a wealthy family in the oil - boom city of Baku, at the edge of the czarist empire, Lev escaped the Russian Revolution in a camel caravan.

She moves to the city to work for a wealthy woman, but when she learns that her brother has disappeared, she realizes that she can not leave her past or family behind easily.

Stamford is northeast of New York City, and is home to many wealthy NYC - based business people and their families.

Max Payne 3 ($ 59.99) No longer a New York City cop, Max Payne moves to São Paulo to protect a wealthy family in an effort to finally escape his troubled past.

There she discovered a pulsing, cosmopolitan city, and met, for the first time, girls from wealthy families who had the means to travel for leisure.

Having satisfied her parent's hope that she would marry into a wealthy family, she and her new husband moved to New York City, [8] where she began to study painting, drawing, singing, acting and dancing.

[1] She came from a wealthy New York family that divided its time between New York City, Newport, Palm Beach, and Paris.

A prominent social figure and a member of the fabulously wealthy Vanderbilt family, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney is best known as the founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.

The family lived in a wealthy area of the city, but when Hitler came to power in 1933 Ernst decided to move his family to England for safety.

A D.C. city council member posted a video claiming that a recent East Coast snowfall is the result of wealthy families controlling the weather.

This beachfront city west of Los Angeles is known as an enclave for the wealthy - much of the city is single - family homes.

Five years ago, he would have marketed to wealthy families in the city, but he says things have changed.