Sentence examples for middle strata from inspiring English sources

It favoured restricting the king's active role and broadening the suffrage to include the middle strata of the bourgeoisie.

"These are not the bottom layers of society, but people in the middle strata who been hit hardest by the financial crisis.

Several of the scholars, he wrote for the website of Caixin, a Chinese portal, described China as being "unstable at the grass roots, dejected among the middle strata and out of control at the top".

Scholars at a recent government conference summed it up well: China is "unstable at the grass roots, dejected at the middle strata and out of control at the top .Once, the party could bottle up dissent.

But that is what a new leadership must do, if it is to transform a society "unstable at the grass roots, dejected in the middle strata, and out of control at the top", which is how some Chinese scholars apparently described their country at a recent conference near Shanghai.

The high, the low and the middle strata of metropolitan society "appeared in grand array -- pretty women, budding maidens and buxom matrons, antique dowagers, venerable spinsters, grave judges, heavy merchants and ponderous bankers," Edward Wilkins wrote of opening night in The New York Herald.

The study population consisted of children enrolled from class 5 till matriculation in the academic year from August 2009 to May 2010 form two-community-based schools belonging to the middle class strata.

We observed more group differences in the values of diabetes-related markers in strata comprising younger and older men (18 29 years and 40 66 years) than in the middle stratum (30 39 years).

According to Carroll, the middle stratum encompassed broad abilities (approximately 10) such as learning, retrieval ability, speediness, visual perception, fluid intelligence, and the production of ideas.

In 1976, when I arrived, India was understood to consist of an enormous number of terribly poor people, a tiny sliver of the jet-setting rich and a middle stratum consisting largely of civil servants.

In a series of surveys over the last decade, sociologists led by Li Peilin, of the China Academy of Social Sciences, concluded that it was "incorrect to believe that the middle stratum is a force for stability".