Sentence examples for class pressure from inspiring English sources

In a tale of weird science, academic infighting and class pressure, the author tells of a British amateur botanist who in the 1940's exposed a reputable professor who had concocted evidence to support his theory that the Hebridean island of Rum had escaped the ice age.

Foreign tourists may be staying away, but this town in the lush Hindu Kush has become a popular destination for the country's growing middle class Pressure to include female cyclists in the Tour de France began to pay off yesterday when the company behind the race said it would stage a one-day event for women on the last stage of the Tour.

There are hardly any regional variations, no class pressures on one's way of speaking, and people switch from broad to cultivated Australian at will.

But Guy is a product of post-World War II pressures on the professional-managerial class, pressures that tied that class's self-image to U.S. policy goals and severed its connection to the popular and proletarian.

It began a transformation of the Indian National Congress from a middle-class pressure group into a nationwide mass movement.

Higher education was heavily subsidized by the state owing to middle-class pressure, even as primary education suffered.

But there are also good ones for saying that they benefit from middle-class pressure for better schools and public spaces.

Senior officials under his administration, and for years afterwards, scoffed at the modest aims of the new middle-class "pressure groups" who were subjected to covert Special Branch scrutiny.

Although the tests will enable entry to some of the most elite educational institutions, Young argues that AQE is not a middle-class pressure group seeking to exclude the poor from the top grammars.

"The Upper Class," written by three Hotchkiss graduates, is a novel about the class tensions, family pressures and vicious social jockeying that seethe in an elite boarding school in Connecticut called Wellington (oh, let's just call it Hotchkiss).

Middle-class pressures by no means totally reshaped popular urban leisure habits.