Sentence examples for greater middle class from inspiring English sources

Long the pastime of the rich, the sport has steadily spread in popularity to the greater middle class, with an estimated 30,000 enthusiasts clambering atop boards.

"There's a greater middle class now in Latin America than there used to be, and civil society is stronger, although work has to be done to build rule of law," he said.

The great middle class has maxed out its credit cards and drained dangerous amounts of equity from family homes.

And here at home, wages are falling, health care costs are rising and our great middle class is shrinking.

The great middle class remains the bastion of traditionalism, and it is here that the double standard of morality is most prominent.

They married those sweethearts and bought new homes and raised families and built businesses, lifting up the greatest middle class the world has ever known.

There had been bull markets before, but this was the first in which a broad swatch of the great middle class had its savings in the stock market.

Yes, the Democratic Party has always been seen as the party of the American worker, the great middle class, but the last election clearly indicates that the Republicans have stolen the Democrats' thunder.

One veteran defined the ideal new recruit as a man who had to represent "the great middle class", who "will always eat well and dress well, but will never get that sleek Packard or sumptuous house.

One of the first pieces I wrote for The New Yorker, back in December , 1995 was entitled "Who Killed the Middle Class?" Here is how it ended: "At some point, both parties will have to level with the voters and tell them the truth: the postwar Golden Era is gone forever, and the great middle class has gone with it.

The Parisian war papers do not represent the whole public opinion; the country is rapidly advancing in material prosperity; and there is a great middle class, increasing both in numbers and in wealth, who are not ready to sacrifice the solid advantages of peace and good-will between the two countries for the empty glory or probable disgrace of an insane war.