But taking on the teachers unions plays directly into this class war narrative.
But it is Vice President Biden who has been the most faithful purveyor of Mr. Obama's class-war theme.
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While there's definitely a "first world problem" aspect of squabbling about smartphones, as Android continues to grow in market share, there may in fact be a class-war element at work here.
Now you have a world class turf war.
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Fifteen years ago, the movie's class-war theme -- the swells in their tuxedoes lounging amid the Titanic's creamy classical splendor, versus the lugs in steerage, led by Leonardo DiCaprio's penniless rapscallion bohemian Jack -- seemed a fairly standard old-movie trope.
The former U.S. colony has declined to pursue criminal charges related to the ensuing 14-year conflict, which left 250, 000 people dead and nearly the entire political class accused of war crimes.
The great upthrust of the immigrant working class into the middle class after World War II, via the GI Bill, was stopped stone cold by the events of the autumn of 1973, when the October war in the Middle East led to the quadrupling of oil prices virtually overnight and the great inflation set in.
They apply to 30 serious crimes - including murder, rape, Class A drug offences and war crimes - but double jeopardy remains in force for lesser offences.
Dobbs cleverly rebranded himself as a populist, writing such books as Exporting America and War On The Middle Class.
They drew on his childhood experiences growing up in an upper-class family in the Midwest before World War II.
Willy Brandt International Airport, named for Germany's famed Cold War leader, was supposed to have been up and running in late 2011, a sign of Berlin's transformation from Cold War confrontation line to world class capital of Europe's economic powerhouse.
But the sheer magnitude of the human tragedy of the second world war puts it in a class of its own, and its relative closeness to the present day makes claims on the collective memory that more remote horrors cannot.
And in the 1940s, during World War II, officials made the class tax a mass tax by introducing withholding and shrinking the exemption.
Roosevelt (CV 42), an old Midway-class carrier in service since the end of World War II.
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One day, his university class has the opportunity to sit in on a war-crimes trial.
Over 10 years, he's transformed by the war and begins to question his cherished notions of class, rank and duty.
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Folks like my grandfather came back from World War II to form the backbone of the largest middle class in history.
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Born in Yorkshire in 1925 into a working-class family, Prof Edwards served in the British army during World War II before returning home to study first agricultural sciences and then animal genetics.
Ms Moggach's grandmother, who lost her husband, her only brother and 11 cousins in the slaughtering fields of the first world war, was the inspiration for this cleverly written tale of domestic intrigue in the sooty streets of Southwark, a working-class district of London just south of the Thames, as the war draws to its close.
It is bolstered by the view that we are a country comfortable with the rule of law (with a few war on terror exceptions), an absence of rigid class distinctions and discriminations (at least lately), and an underlying tendency to do the right thing when the right thing needs doing (although, as Churchill remarked, often only after exhausting all other alternatives).
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The second world war and its aftermath provoked seething debate in Egypt's class-ridden society.
Unreal Engine is a world-class game development platform that's powered classic franchises including Gears of War, BioShock, Mass Effect, Borderlands, and Infinity Blade.
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They also converted the first four vessels in the class to cruise-missile launchers with no nuclear role after the Cold War ended, which is why there are only 14 Ohios carrying ballistic missiles today rather than the 18 that were built.
The world will not be rid of poverty, war or terrorism until almost everyone on Earth is in the middle class.
Showing up to spring training that early is like a high-school kid going back to class during Christmas break because he just felt like reviewing the Franco-Prussian War.
According to an academic paper published recently, people born soon after the second world war were much more likely to move out of their parents' class than those born in later decades.
Tom Friedman, a columnist for the New York Times, has declared that countries with McDonald's do not go to war against each other: with the burgers comes an established middle class, which makes a country too sensible to cause trouble.
Also competing were two examples of the 12-meter class that dominated the America's Cup competition in the decades after World War II and an entire fleet of 6-meters--aristocratic racing machines that have been the favorites of such yachtsmen as the kings of Spain, Denmark and Norway.
Midgley, born in the working-class north of England in 1911, was in military intelligence during the second world war, trying to work out Germany's intentions.
The next year in my 20th Century History class we were assigned a paper comparing the occupations of Germany and Japan after World War II with the contemporary occupation of Iraq.
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