Sentence examples for elevate one's status from inspiring English sources
The surest way to get something in today's society is to elevate one's status to that of the oppressed.
The social selection, or drift, theory is that socio-economic status is a consequence of the disorder -the insidious onset of schizophrenia is believed to preclude elevating one's status or to cause a downward drift in status [ 26].
Indeed formal education has become a means to elevate one's social status and economic welfare.
As long as the White House and senior political appointees in the Cabinet agencies continue to rely almost exclusively on a small cabal of political patrons, campaign staff, and swamp-deniers who are really swamp-creatures whose only goals are to elevate one's own personal status in the eyes of the president, bright and principled civil servants will continue to go for the exits.
Marriage into a powerful family, especially a family of royal blood, was an important means for maintaining and elevating one's social and political status.
For many years, Ivan Dimitri, director of the National Advisory Committee of Photograph in Fine Arts, had one distinctive goal: to elevate photography's status, encouraging critics, collectors, gallery owners and curators to put it on the same level as painting or sculpture.
It makes no sense to elevate one particular trait to some kind of special status as the one thing that makes humans human.
This week, we've elevated Herman Cain's status.
The Kremlin welcomed the Russian spies home as heroes, instantly elevating one, the auburn-tressed Anna Chapman, to the status of celebrity and fashion icon.
In essence, we are elevating one another.
