Sentences with phrase «wealthy elite»

Kingsman, we learn, is a private intelligence firm, started by a group of wealthy elites whose heirs were killed during World War I and who found themselves with extra inheritance money on their hands.

Tesla Motors received $ 256 million to produce electric cars for wealthy elites who receive $ 2,500 to $ 7,500 in tax credits, plus free charging and express lane access.

This excludes oligarchy: rule by wealthy elites.

He writes that it is conceivable that Zcash, a privacy - centric cryptocurrency that has been lauded by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, has the potential to not only fill the void left by the declining offshore banking sector but also expand this opportunity to everyone — not just wealthy elites.

On top of that, Luxy members are the top 1 % demographic of the most wealthy elites.

Once you begin to read [the Bible], if you're reading the prophets where they're talking about exchanging the poor for a pair of sandals, and what happens when you have a widening gap between the ruling wealthy elites and the poor masses who can't feed their kids, and how this is an affront to what it means to be human, if at that point you're like, «Well, is this inerrant?»

«The Bible knows that powerful and wealthy elites commonly structure the world in their own self - interest.

Until people are paid enough to live on without the state subsidising employers, private landlords etc through the benefit system and giving tax breaks to an already wealthy elite, we will continue to have endless debates about social inequality, child poverty and deprivation.

We are fortunate enough to live at the first time in human history [when] such individualized teaching and learning is not restricted to a tiny wealthy elite but can be distributed far more widely, if not universally.»

On the one side, super-wealthy elites employing populist rhetoric and mobilizing non-elites; on the other side, slightly less wealthy elites struggling to explain why their way of life is worth preserving.

I get bothered by the segregation of the Hamptons, where the very wealthy elite live on one side and underserved communities on another.

The New York Times reports that the fine art world has found that America's new wealthy elite, innovators and venture

Certain left - wing scholars, most prominently Eva Cockcroft, have argued that the U.S. government and wealthy elite embraced Pollock and abstract expressionism to place the United States in the forefront of global art and devalue socialist realism.

What's more, the more redistributive your policies, the more harshly you're likely to be attacked by sections of the media representing the interests of wealthy elites.

Not forgetting, Luxy members are the top 1 % demographic of the most wealthy elites.

This neighbourhood is in the historical Rothesay, which developed as a summer home community for Saint John's wealthy elite.

Singapore recently brought its Grand Prix race back after a 33 - year absence, and Thailand's wealthy elite are looking at doing the same.

The reasons to have a second passport are many, but for the world's wealthy elite, they have often amounted to what Canadian immigration lawyer David Lesperance called «the backup plan».

Once a trend popular among only China's wealthy elite, wine has since caught on with the country's roughly 152 million middle - class consumers.

The previously undisclosed story of Apple's search for a new tax haven and its use of Jersey is among the findings emerging from a cache of secret corporate records from Appleby, a Bermuda - based law firm that caters to businesses and the wealthy elite.

By design, decisions in the U.S. was meant to be made by the wealthy elite, who were considered the «resonsible men» in Madison's day.

Second, the results: in a number of capitalist countries there is a vast disparity between the wealthy elite and the poverty - stricken masses.

Britain's powerful and wealthy elites have the same attitude as opportunistic rioters, Iain Duncan Smith has suggested.

The ideas it promoted — that banks and a wealthy elite have benefited from the current economic system at the expense of the rest of us — have infiltrated the mainstream, with the concept of the 99 % resonating profoundly with people across the country.

Many countries have at one time or another nationalized entire industries that were previously owned by wealthy elites, or to pre-empt wealthy elites from doing so in the first place.

And, in any case, there's something to be said, I think, for giving common people their own institutional branch through which they might assert their interests against other institutions more readily at the disposal of wealthy elites.

Last year, the think - tank Policy Network revealed that modern British society is a «5-75-20 society» where only the 5 % constitutes the comfortable and wealthy elite, the 20 % is rather poor and often socially excluded, and the 75 % majority can be labelled as «the new insecure» ones.

Such tactics have been used by the wealthy elites and the talking heads who support them across European societies, but in many cases they have failed.

The second, or upper, chamber was intended to be representative of the wealthy elite and national power - holders.

These are the markers of a civilised society, but they are under relentless attack from corporations and wealthy elites.

The power of corporations and wealthy elites is at the heart of tax avoidance and needs to be checked.

«The program primarily funds luxury housing for the wealthy elite while fueling gentrification and displacement.

Union president Karen Magee says Monday's «Public Education Not Private Profits» protest is designed to call attention to the wealthy elite who are trying to privatize public education and profit from students across the state.

Tax returns of major corporations and wealthy elites should be made publicly available so that public sunshine may persuade some to end their darker practices.

In front of a small crowd of supporters and Syracuse University students, congressional candidate Steve Williams said the United States is becoming an oligarchy — more controlled by a small group of wealthy elites.

In a written response to questions about potential ethics reforms in Albany, Larkin said on Tuesday that he was willing to consider limiting lawmakers» outside income, as opposed to banning it, but also voiced concerns about creating «professional politicians» and allowing only «the wealthy elite» to run.

While they may bill themselves as «reformers,» the wealthy elite don't want to address the real reason why some students in some of our schools are struggling — and that's poverty.»

But the defining characteristics of modern politics in the United States are a corrupt campaign finance system that enables corporate and wealthy elites to purchase political outcomes; and an abundance of anti-democratic electoral, ballot access and debate rules designed to minimize participation and choice.

I am a middle class teacher, community leader, and mother who will be a voice for ALL residents of our district, not just the wealthy elite.

For too long the 10th district has been represented by someone who cares only about the wealthy elite while ignoring the issues impacting working - class residents.

The real problem is allowing the wealthy elite to buy elections and politicians, and that is what we need to end, not just giving more money to more candidates,» said Hawkins.

Centrist Tory projects and groupings such as the Good Right and Renewal are seeking to tackle the excesses of private companies and a wealthy elite.

Many are sold as food, many are slaughtered and sold as parts for «medicinal» purposes and aphrodisiacs, and many are huge, high - stakes status symbols for the wealthy elite — such as tigers, monkeys and Komodo dragons.»

One of the most common places for the wealthy elite to meet their spouse is graduate school.

Even for the wealthy elite of Sugar Daddies, this seems like a lot of money to put down to get a date.

Also some of the most depressing — Never Let Me Go, a distressingly realistic story about the technology of cloning being used for the benefit of an entitled and wealthy elite.