Sentences with phrase «with upper middle»

Shabby chic decorating was especially popular with modern Bohemians and artisans that made up a sidelined counter-culture movement during the 1980s when expensive, high quality room decor became very fashionable with the upper middle classes.

I have thought that, at some point, I might develop the Fairminded Fran series to open up conversations with upper middle school children on important issues of relevance today.

Given the same teachers, principal, building and school supplies, filling a school with upper middle class kids with involved parents will create a «good» school, while filling that same school with low income and minority kids with uneducated parents will probably create a «bad» school with low test scores, safety issues, and discipline problems.

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

Lyne appears obsessed with the upper middle class and their relationship to fucking.

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

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English Moustache: Thin moustache with the hair on a line in the middle of the upper lip sideways, with the hair at the corner of the mouth slightly shaped upwards.

Take that funding away and the market settles back into something more closely aligned with the underlying reality — the one of high unemployment / underemployment, high oil prices, stagnant middle - and lower - class incomes, unprecedented wealth concentration in the upper class, demolished savers, under - investment in capital, and an ongoing transition to a low - wage service economy hard - pressed to service debt.

By contrast, the AHCA is far more generous with middle and upper - middle - income folks.

Recent studies indicate that while spending patterns shift in retirement, the overall trend in real dollars is down, and for the majority of retirees in the middle and upper income quintiles, they may find themselves with income that exceeds their spending.

But 4.8 percent of Americans would see taxes go up, with hikes concentrated in the upper middle class and among the very rich.

So after real estate imploded and bottomed out, I bought a nice house in an upper middle class neighborhood with great schools.

First among these drivers is the growing number of upper middle class and affluent households, or those with more than $ 24,000 and $ 46,000 in annual disposable income, respectively.

With the wealthiest Americans better positioned to take advantage of the gains, the wealth of upper - income households in 2013 rose to 6.5 times greater than that of middle - income households, up from 4.5 times in 2007, according to the Pew Research Center.

Likewise, upper - income households are divided into upper - middle income households (with more than twice the overall median income and up to three times the median) and highest - income households (with more than three times the overall median income).

In 2014, an upper - middle income household with three people lived on about $ 126,000 to $ 188,000, and a highest - income household lived on more than $ 188,000.

If you want much bigger government, you have to pay for it with broadly based taxes, even if the rich and upper middle class bear the biggest burdens.

With the cancellation of the health care levy (which it should be pointed out was graduated and not a flat amount like the old premium), and the NDP tax increases kicking in at 130K and not 100K like the Prentice budget, the NDP has made sure the upper middle class (and some of the upper class) are paying less taxes than under Prentice's budget.

But things are going to get more painful for the upper middle class in 2018 with the proposed elimination of state income taxes, capping mortgage interest deduction, and limiting property tax deduction to $ 10,000.

I admit to espousing a definite idea of Western, upper - middle - class sophistication and elegance, which I associate with material success.

«Liberals,» he wrote, «are generally identified with the working classes and the intellectuals, and conservatives with the upper and middle classes.»

For example, in his days as an undergraduate at Oxford Waugh's fellow student Harold Acton used a megaphone to shout out lines from T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land from an open window of his upper - storey college suite and was later thrown into a fountain by some drunken students in the middle of the night; while another student, Brian Howard, spoke with a stutter and gossiped his head off: all of which got fused in the character of Anthony Blanche in Brideshead Revisited.

Those who choose this approach must beware lest they end up as self - centered and self - righteous communities of upper middle class people playing at being poor, preoccupied with their own problems and contributing little or nothing to helping others or to resolving the world's problems.

Parents ordinarily pay fees, with the government providing some subsidies directly for the poor, and indirectly — through tax credits — for the middle - and upper - middle income groups.

Only gradually was it recognized that the talking therapies were really more consistent with the introspective and verbal styles of the middle - class and upper middle - class people they were originally developed to help.

Sadly, the noble legacy of Christian progressivism and the Social Gospel movement has devolved to a narrow set of priorities that has everything to do with upper - middle - class preoccupations and very little to do with the needs of the poor.

My own experience in teaching religion and theology to middle - and upper - middle - class undergraduates and graduate students in America for the past decade or so certainly suggests that this way of thinking about religion fits neatly with a strong tendency toward the kind of knee - jerk relativism that is also widespread among those in the same social strata.

One of the things I have respected most in Aida Rosa, principal of the elementary school P.S. 30, and the teachers that I talk with on her staff is that they look at children here as children, not as «distorted children,» not as «morally disabled children,» not as «quasi-children» who require a peculiar arsenal of reconstructive strategies and stick - and - carrot ideologies that wouldn't be accepted for one hour by the parents or the teachers of the upper middle class.

With church - going disproportionately a middle - to - upper - class phenomenon, congregations increasingly tend to wear the same clothes, drive the same cars, and experience the same levels of well - being and social status.

No matter what that preacher said that day, no matter how many purity balls are thrown with sparkling upper - middle - class extravagance, no matter the purity rings and the purity pledges, no matter the judgemental Gospel - negating rhetoric used with the best of intentions, no matter the «how close is too close?»

However, the apparent nearness to the upper classes and partial identification with this group have some effect on the drinking habits in the Upper - Middle class.

Think of the gulf that separates the fundamental attitudes toward drinking of a certain upper - class Episcopal church with its occasional «sherry parties» after services from the attitudes of a middle - class Baptist church with its annual «temperance speaker.»

Such awareness will include a prophetic criticism of American feminism when it is too narrow in scope, when it demands that the power of determining and directing social goals and structures be shared with middle - and upper - class American women while other women and groups are still excluded from that realization.

In most instances he was identified with the middle or upper classes in American society.

They say that «meritocracy brings with it what we will call the national upper - middle class style: cosmopolitan, moderate, universalistic, somewhat legalistic, concerned with equity and fair play, aspiring to neutrality between regions, religions, and ethnic groups» (p. 12).

Now his niche is to create a campus with a restaurant, an upper - middle to lower high - end hotel and retail.

Gain flexibility with full stretching routines for middle splits, side splits, lower back, upper back & shoulders, handstands, and more!

Preheat oven to 400oF with one rack in the middle of the oven and the other in the upper one third.

Adjust oven racks to upper - middle and lower - middle positions and heat oven to 375 degrees F. Lightly spray silicon loaf pan with bake spray and dust with flour.

Like Saturday, there will be plenty of sunshine but less wind in Southern Virginia and temperatures near 70 degrees near the end of the race, with green flag temperatures in the middle to upper 60s.

And while the Science authors found instruction to be basic and repetitive even in American schools with a mostly middle - class or upper - middle - class student population, they found that the situation was considerably worse in schools that enrolled a lot of low - income children.

Preheat the oven to 350 °F with racks in the middle and upper third of the oven.

The point wasn't to learn about nutrition, but rather about language — how to fill an everyday shopping trip with the kind of nonstop chatter that has become second nature to most upper - middle - class parents, full of questions about numbers and colors and letters and names.

In partnership with the Museum Institute for Teaching Science (MITS) and other museums and nature centers, Mass Audubon wildlife sanctuaries in four regions are offering graduate level courses for upper elementary, middle school, and high school educators.

So, the term «extended breastfeeding» assumes that the specific cultural and material conditions that middle - and upper - class contemporary Westerners experience — widespread misunderstanding and stigma surrounding women's breasts and children's biology; widespread availability of commercial formula; clean water to prepare it with; the time and space to wash, sterilize, and store bottles, and so forth — are «normal,» while literally everything that has ever existed outside of this limited cultural experience and relatively short, unique period in time is somehow abnormal.

Afropolitanism is a contemporary response to «Afro - pessimism» — a response led primarily by young people with a Western education, upper - middle class upbringing, accent - free English, and easy access to high - speed Internet.

All four members of the group are moderates in their politics, representing districts filled with upper - middle - income suburbanites.

The two main parties have done a fair job of splitting up the remaining classes, with one side having the appearance of caring for lower more, and the other for upper, but in reality, that only really matters if they aren't getting the larger share of «the middle class».