Sentence examples for class disadvantages from inspiring English sources

When it first dawned on him that he might be a poet, Keats — well aware of his class disadvantages and his limited education — was almost frightened by his audacity.

Our most popular narratives are far more comfortable promulgating the bromide that anyone can be whatever they want to be in this society — as if there are no barriers or costs to overcoming class disadvantages and barriers.

But let's tackle class disadvantage in addition to, rather than by downgrading, racism.

E: This is how it's going to be as long as class disadvantage and privilege exist.

A legal requirement forcing public bodies to try to reduce inequalities caused by class disadvantage will be scrapped, the home secretary announced today.

But the IPPR recommends that we should be cautious of celebrating the increasing numbers of women at the top as a marker of equality, and instead develop "a more nuanced understanding of how gender interacts with class disadvantage" to hold some women back, while others go forward.

Without state support for early parenting, being present in those precious early months is a class-based privilege, one that ultimately exacerbates the very class disadvantage that creates unequal access to the luxury of parenting in the first place.

Essentially, extracurriculars end up being a double filter on social class that disadvantages job applicants from more modest means both in entering the recruiting pipeline and succeeding within it.

Many investors, such as CalPERS, America's largest public-pension fund, complain that he serves both as chief executive and chairman; that executive compensation is too high; that a dual share-class structure disadvantages independent shareholders; and that the board of directors is too passive.

This point of view, while understandable, rejects the idea that racism exists entirely independent of class-based disadvantage.

Visual differentiation of wheat classes suffers from disadvantages such as inconsistency, low throughput, and labour intensiveness.