Sentence examples for a person status from inspiring English sources

Richard DeGrandpre, the author of "The Cult of Pharmacology" (Duke University Press, 2006), an exploration of America's ever-changing relationship with drugs, ascribes the latest cachet of rehab to a prurient, even envious fascination with celebrity culture, one, he said, in which "rehab has become fashionable, almost to the point, ironically, of giving a person status".

"Objects were made to indicate a person's status".

Even if you marry a person of status, the wife inevitably remains a rung below".

Illich saw schooling not as a way to reduce inequality but to cement it in society by producing a system of credentials that justify a person's status.

In a sense, being able to go into debt is a privilege and the greater a person's status, the greater his access to debt often is.

Although it remains of course the most portable show of wealth, a badge of success, ready reckoner of a person's status.

This suggests a close link between ethnicity and a person's status as a national in those countries, rather than a view based around citizenship.

In a sense, being able to go into debt is a privilege — and the greater a person's status, the greater his access to debt often is.

The higher a person's status, the more mooncakes he is likely to receive and the more exotic they will be.

PCs, especially notebook PCs, are becoming another symbol of a person's status or taste.

Sometimes you just want to express your sentiment by liking a person's status, rather than sitting on the phone with them and listening to their bad day.