Sentence examples for middle- from inspiring English sources

"We're in the middle of a very important pennant race.

"Over recent decades, technological change, globalization and an erosion of the institutions and practices that support shared prosperity in the U.S. have put the middle class under increasing stress.

Take the National Children's Bureau finding that the gap in potential between children from middle- and low-income families is already evident among babies of 22 months.

The issue came to light when the estate took a number of photo libraries to court in the middle of the last decade for selling her image on without permission.

Basically, it is good news that Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel have performed so strongly: excellent films in that "indie-literate" middle ground that many in the industry have been worrying had been neglected in the general rush to big-budget, big-box-office superhero pictures.

It's clearly something that is not winnable … you're going to have more and more civilians who are caught in the middle of this, and that has got to be our focus right now.

But that's still a long way from turning these jobs into the kind of employment that can support a middle-class family.

With more than 70% of the poor now living, or expected to live in middle-income countries, these regions would be likely targets for investment.

And because the book-buying upper-middle class does not trust the entrenched positions of America's ideologues, they are looking for fresh thinking – which a foreigner like Piketty, whose positions are not those of any large American political faction, provides.

The souls of Bulawayo or Lahiri or Ozeki surely don't fret in the shadow of London middle-class English.

"Ed Miliband is focusing attention on the 'squeezed middle-class', but if Labour had appealed more to working-class voters, it could have won," said Paul Whiteley, professor of politics at Essex.