The visit was a triumph and the upper classes rushed to adopt the new fashion.
While money often works its way to the upper classes, it very rarely flows back the other way.
Asking politicians to enact changes that would reduce the wealth of the upper classes is a conflict of interests.
Does this mean marriage will soon be an institution of the upper classes?
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Note that word "braying" - a deliberate allusion to the Woosterish upper classes.
For, without specifically setting out to do so, it demystifies the land-owning upper classes simply by showing them how to survive.
The reform process is already under way among the urbanized upper classes.
Homeownership remained confined largely to small-town denizens and the urban upper classes.
Cities were sharply divided between the upper classes on high and the transient population of boatmen and gamblers that made them rich.
Mr Prescott's working class image may even have helped broaden the appeal of the game, which is traditionally associated with the upper classes.
Vejjajiva's Democrat Party, which draws the majority of its support from Thailand's middle and upper classes, found itself with a majority in parliament.
He also offers the theory that these days pronunciation tends to migrate from the lower to the upper classes, not the other way round.
It became an immediate hit with the upper classes in England, who came to like Dutch gin quite as much as they liked French brandy.
It became an immediate hit with the upper classes in England.
When it comes to cars for status in Brazil, the upper classes are serving up Pitu and 51 in their caipirinhas and thinking its top shelf liquor.
This started among the urban upper classes in northern Europe and over the course of the next 200 years filtered down to the rest of Western society.
Trout and salmon may inhabit the dreams (and literature) of the upper classes, but the pugnacious, voracious bigmouth bass is everyman's fish, found in every state save Alaska.
After 1868, when Japan opened to Western influence, actors strove to heighten the reputation of Kabuki among the upper classes and to adapt the traditional styles to modern tastes.
The fervor of his followers, combined with the disdain of the upper classes, created a polarization in Venezuela that runs deeper than anything blue or red in the United States.
The main locales are the United Federation of Britain, where the upper classes live, and the dystopian precincts of the Colony, which could have passed in our time for Australia.
Corruption may have left some in Brazil's middle and upper classes disillusioned with President Lula, but among the country's estimated 38 million poor people it seems an abstraction not worth contemplating.
Strangely, though, they had nicknames that evoked either the Broadway characters of Damon Runyon or, more bizarrely, the upper classes of Wodehousian England: Bongbong, Teddyboy, Ting Ting and Ballsy, for example.
When disbelieving persons asked Psalmanazar why he was so fair and light-eyed and different-looking than they expected, he had a ready answer: the upper classes lived underground and were therefore pigmented like him.
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This is somewhat true, particularly for parts of London and New York, which can survive high ratios because their markets are less national and middle-income and more tied to the global upper classes.
Because this fee will never be paid by the middle or upper classes with sufficient average balances, every dollar collected because of it will come directly out of the disposable income of the poorest Americans.
Though the sometimes indolent ways of the British upper classes served as his muse, his writing gave the impression that he embraced the immense, and in a very real sense, the anti-conservative changes wrought by Thatcherism.
And even at Wentworth, there are rules: no singlet or vest tops, shirts must have a collar (a throwback to the elitist collar-and-tie days, when golf was only played by the upper classes) and strictly no denim.
While the Wall Street Journal (and others) look at China on a GDP per capita or the average spending power of the populace, these sources are overlooking the spending size of the upper middle and upper classes.
There was criticism, too, of the fact that many projects were of a kind more likely to benefit the middle and upper classes which, in poor countries as in rich ones, are often better able to take advantage of infrastructure, such as new hospitals, which the bank helps to create.
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