Sentences with phrase «wealthy class became»

The tastes of this new, wealthy class became the most influential during Victorian times and the change in furniture styles accompanied this rapidly growing new world.

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Meanwhile, Hong Kong's Cheng Yu - tung has spent $ 570 million on five luxe properties — part of what some industry experts hypothesize will become a trend among wealthy Asians in expectation of the continent's middle class embracing global travel.

How much wealthy Americans contribute to their wonky economy, deeply shaken by the 2008 - 2009 financial crisis has become a salient topic in recent years, as failing banks, home foreclosures, and a shrinking middle class have dominated headlines while the super-rich get super richer.

They became firmly established in the upper middle class, if not wealthy.

As the gap between wealthy and poor Americans widens, the middle class is becoming less of an appealing target for nationwide retailers.

Then the merchants, philosophers and artisans (i.e. the middle class) began to become wealthy that launched the Renaissance.

The macabre implication is that the Republicans have become the party of the patrician class, in support of a feeble social contract that provides as little as possible to the masses, and a model for government whose raison d'être is to enable its wealthiest citizens to achieve a quality of life unattainable to the rest.

Again, lower - class subjects whose attitudes toward greed had been nudged in this way became just as likely as their wealthier counterparts to sympathize with dishonest behavior (taking home office supplies, laying off employees while increasing their own bonuses, overcharging customers to drive up profits).

It follows the fortunes of the Schlegel sisters (Thompson and Helena Bonham Carter), who become involved with two couples: a wealthy, conservative industrialist (Anthony Hopkins) and his wife (Vanessa Redgrave), and a working - class man (Samuel West) and his mistress (Nicola Duffet).

Acclaimed Brazilian actress Regina Case stars as Val, a working class live - in housekeeper / nanny to a wealthy family in Sao Paulo, where she has become like a member of -LSB-...]

Acclaimed Brazilian actress Regina Case stars as Val, a working class live - in housekeeper / nanny to a wealthy family in Sao Paulo, where she has become like a member of the family and second mother to the family's son Fabinho (Michel Joelsas) whom she has practically raised.

She plays Kim, a working class skateboard champion who becomes a chalet girl after her mum's death — and ends up falling for a wealthy (and taken) client.

Over the past several decades, however, America became less of a middle - class society as the wealthy captured most of the economy's gains.

These «comforter spaniels» became very popular with the wealthy classes, and served as foot and lap warmers as well as delightful companions.

She was raised as one of six children in a middle - class family that eventually became wealthy, with a powerful female energy (her mother was a well - known and highly respected political figure in Nigeria).

In turn, this led to: more demand for urban architecture; more demand for applied art and design - see, for instance the Bauhaus School - and the emergence of a new class of wealthy entrepreneurs who became art collectors and patrons.

As people become less poor and become a little more wealthy — moving through middle class lives toward upper income lives — we develop appetites.

And by the time the persecutions subsided, the Quakers had become established members of the wealthy class.

We need to become wealthy, to build a middle class, to provide opportunity to those who demand it and to achieve equity.