Sentence examples for literate classes from inspiring English sources

The development of institutions such as cities, bureaucracies and literate classes, which contributed to economic growth.

The kitchen's comfort, let alone its aesthetics, were of little concern to them.But as the working classes prospered and the servant shortage set in, housekeeping became a matter of interest to the literate classes.

The new histories suggest that the war was welcomed in 1914, and particularly by the literate classes, as a necessary act of hygiene, a chance to restore seriousness of purpose after the two trivial decades of the Edwardian Belle Époque.

Although Kynaston's regular voices naturally come, when they are not luminaries, from literate classes with the resources to entertain themselves, they leave little doubt about the punishing ennui of an era in which intelligent viewers genuinely looked forward to that ultimate antidote to morbid sentimentality, The Black and White Minstrel Show.

The heyday of the New Imperialism, especially after 1894, created a tacit understanding in the European elites and the broad literate classes that the days of the old European balance of power were over, that a new world order was dawning, and that any nation left behind in the pursuit of world power would sink into obscurity.

This one consists of a great rent in the ground, 30km long, and in June 1783 it yawned and stayed open for more than eight months, producing enough lava to bury Manhattan to the top of the Rockefeller Centre (pictured).Laki was the first eruption to be written about in the diaries, newspapers and scientific papers that were then spreading fast among the newly literate classes of Europe.

Such schools produced a literate class, particularly among the Christians, that found employment as professionals.

The establishment of three universities had created a literate class, especially in Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras.

Their stories are necessarily blurred by trauma and the fragile memories of children, but they have filled a gap left by the extermination, under the Khmer Rouge, of the country's educated and literate class.

Mr. Rabin cites the Internet for providing access to a deep historical reserve of bad movies, creating a more literate class of new fans who are eager to build community.

From Mesopotamia Mr. Casson rapidly moves on to Greece, where an alphabetic form of writing and an enlightened system of education led to the emergence of a substantial literate class, capable of supporting a book trade.