Sentence examples for expensive status from inspiring English sources
Norman Baker, Liberal Democrat transport spokesman, welcomed the decision to scrap an "expensive status symbol".
"I didn't know if I wanted to even implicitly endorse a show about rich people's expensive status symbols," he said.
In the early years of the twentieth century, electric fans were expensive status items in the homes of the wealthy, costing about seven hundred dollars in today's money.
And despite Mumbai politicians' penchant for building new flyovers, the sheer crowdedness of street life and poor state of the roads are surely a disincentive to owning an expensive "status symbol" car.
This will be an increasingly important factor in emerging markets like China: the first wave of buyers has tended to pay cash, but in future many will need to borrow, as they do in Western markets.A few makers of expensive status symbols for the well-off, in particular BMW and JLR, should be able to get by on making cars in smaller quantities.
EAS, New York Well, hey, I have a solution: don't buy those ridiculously expensive status-symbol strollers!
The state reached most-expensive status in 1993 and has stayed there since.
In this time of hand-wringing and dirge-singing in the media, as newspaper publishers pine for print readers and journalists recall the good ol' days when they could make a living, Mr Rosen offers a sound take on what ails the industry: "Change is too expensive; the status quo is unsustainable".
Change is too expensive; the status quo is unsustainable.DiA: You've written a book titled "What Are Journalists For?" Looking at political coverage in America, how is your answer to that question different from the job journalists are actually doing today?Mr Rosen: No one has ever asked me that.
If these findings are confirmed in other settings as well, it offers a very useful tool for screening iron deficient anemic children without need for more expensive iron status marker investigations.
Nowadays lobster is viewed as an expensive, high-status delicacy.
