Sentence examples for on the upper class from inspiring English sources

"Southland," on NBC and the "Unusuals," on ABC both feature protagonists who have turned their backs on the upper class to become police officers.

The Republicans say that we should cut the taxes on the upper class, and they will create jobs.

Another idea is that you temporarily increase the taxes on the upper class, with tax incentives for every person that is hired for a year or more.

The album's lyrics describe the Carnival of Carnage as a representation of the violence that occurs within the ghettos, which takes the form of a traveling carnival to enact the same brutality on the upper class.

At the end of the 19th century the historian Frantz Funck-Brentano used the archives to undertake detailed research into the operation of the Bastille, focusing on the upper class prisoners in the Bastille, disproving many of the 18th-century myths about the institution and portraying the prison in a favourable light.

Given the nature of the material, which comes to a climax with half of London's criminal and Secret Service personnel chasing the baffled thieves, you would expect the movie to be played as farce, or perhaps as a satire on the manners of the upper class.

A full-time etiquette coach was hired to instruct the cast on the manners of the upper class gentility in 1912.

This should be on the minds not just of the upper class, who already pay half of the income tax, but of the vast middle class.

So in the usual manner, snobbery became a consciously exercised cruelty on the part of the upper classes, rather than an internalised, intuitive sense of barriers, and the sergeant major training Tull even opted for the Full Metal Jacket clichés about treating your rifle like a woman.

Roman literature focuses on the dining habits of the upper classes, for whom the evening meal (cena) had important social functions.

While many lauded his eloquence and his passion, few heeded his warnings that too many Americans were being left behind and that Reagan's "shining city on the hill" only applied to the upper class.