Sentence examples similar to stricken classes from inspiring English sources

Sparing the approaching Republican National Convention a civic eyesore, bulldozers are moving in on the last of the 957 sinking homes of the Logan triangle, a stricken working-class swath of north Philadelphia that has festered as an urban disaster for more than a decade.

The fraternity of those lost was enriched by people from just about everywhere; the empire of the stricken crosses borders and classes.

Then luck (or so I thought) struck: two classes adjuncting at Hunter College.

In Lawrence, Justice Kennedy observed that Romer "struck down class-based legislation directed at homosexuals" because "the provision was 'born of animosity toward the class of persons affected' and... had no rational relation to a legitimate government purpose".

But if – or perhaps, realistically, when – the lurgy strikes your class, you can take comfort in stories.

There the Court struck down class-based legislation directed at homosexuals as a violation of the Equal Protection Clause.

At issue at next week's court hearing is whether the Federal Arbitration Act of 1925 preempts state courts from striking down class-action bans.

It's interviews with people in London — workers, the more poverty-stricken classes.

The housing bust that began among the working class in remote subdivisions and quickly progressed to the suburban middle class is striking the upper class in privileged enclaves like this one in Silicon Valley.

Of the 3,004 eligible schools, 162 were not selected because of the lack of ninth year elementary education classes, strikes, or refusal by the school board.

Mr. Brill vividly illustrates the harsh financial mauling that the hospitals covered in his report – all nonprofits – visit on uninsured middle-class Americans stricken with serious illness.