Sentence examples for powerful middle from inspiring English sources

The absence of a powerful middle class has had a retarding effect.

New money and an increasingly powerful middle class are supposedly displacing the old social hierarchies.

Struggles between increasingly wealthy and powerful middle classes and snobbish and insular aristocrats helped trigger the Revolution of 1789.

Producers also commanded respect because, as powerful middle men, they could help directors stand up to screwball requests from studios, or vice versa.

For that part, the rich will always be able to outbid the poor (not to mention the politically powerful middle class).

Supporters of French conservatism among the Roman Catholic clergy, the military officer class, and the landed aristocracy remained haunted by nostalgia for the ancien régime and thus collided with the aspirations of the growing and powerful middle class.

His reply: "Can you do any better?" Her books about powerful, middle-age women sold more than six million copies.

Powerful middle-tier countries (like Germany) have helped make up the loss of American funds and personnel, and the court is now deep into investigations of mass slaughter in Congo and Uganda.

Pop culture, like every other type of culture, has always needed rich, powerful middle-aged men to tell us how women should behave, what they should wear and how their sexuality should be phrased.

Yet here, miraculously, are two boxing-/related books for young people: "A Nation's Hope," a superbly illustrated picture book by Matt de la Pe?nd Kadir Nelson, and "Bird in a Box," a powerful middle-grade novel by Andrea Davis Pinkney.

In a news conference with the three ministers, Hassan Rowhani, a powerful middle-level cleric who has emerged as Iran's chief negotiator during the current crisis, said the one-and-a-half-page agreement would first have to be approved by Iran's elected Parliament.