Sentence examples for class hostility from inspiring English sources

FDR, more radical than Obama in his class hostility, spoke explicitly of the need for "very high taxes". Roosevelt's tax trap was the undistributed-profits tax, which hit businesses that chose not to disgorge their cash as dividends or wages.

There was no real support from trade unions, in fact none at all as far as one can see, and there was a good deal of middle class hostility to them because of the destruction.

In this final study the traumatic events of the years 1848 51 were clearly the source of his emphasis on the durability of centralization and class hostility in French history.

While it is true that the amendment was a classic election-year ploy, it owes its power as much to a peculiar narrative of class hostility as it does to homophobia or ideology.

But if that episode brought out class hostilities, the death of Mr. Salaway saddened many people because, friends said, he was equally comfortable with the rich and well connected and with those who served them.

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were 27 and 25, respectively, when they gave the world GOOD WILL HUNTING (1997), their smart, sensitive Oscar-winning screenplay about success, failure, genius and class hostilities in Cambridge, Mass.

We have allowed the genteel middle-class hostility that most black people experience off the hook.

His personal attack, last week, against a local union leader in Indiana who had dared to criticize him was revealing of Trump's real attitude — deep, ruling-class hostility — toward organized labor.

You don't think it's a sort of gesture or sign of hostility or class enmity or something?" Blair: "No, I think he just likes drinking his tea that way".

Haiti inherited the wounds of racial and class enmity and confronted the hostility of slave-holding powers, including the United States.

During the U.A.W.'s last major campaign in the South, a losing effort at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., in 2014, much of the state's political class conveyed relentless hostility.