The driver who has caused the accident quits the scene lest it undermine her family's social standing.
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Women are often required to have large families to improve their social standing and ensure their economic survival.
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Turns out, math isn't just something you suffer through in high school -- it can actually determine your social standing.
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Argan oil hasn't just improved the region's economic and social standing, Charrouf says it's played a vital role sustaining its ecology too.
Employees who regularly do favors for colleagues work more effectively and enjoy a higher social standing than their less generous peers, concludes Professor Francis J.
Both married politically shrewd women from families of higher social standing.
The unfortunate truth is that social circles are filled with one-way relationships and, the more unreciprocated ties you're the benefactor of, the higher your social standing.
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Just as a woman becomes instantly less likeable when she asks for a raise -- as research indicates -- a teenage girl can lose social standing when she seems too opinionated.
When the researchers controlled for connections between socio-economic status and beverage preference, they found that wine-drinkers with the same financial resources and social standing as beer-drinkers or teetotallers simply lead more sensible and healthier lives.
They believe in all that bumph like good and evil, love and hate, the worth of it all, having a harmless good time, and not particularly giving a damn about their own particular social standing.
Their social standing is foremost here, and the artworks illustrating this, together with richly documented essays in the exhibition book edited by Ms. Spicer, clarify the fundamental differences between slavery in Europe and in America.
Maybe you couldn't quite figure out that whole "people" thing in high school (there's enough us on staff at Engadget -- we understand), but perhaps you could increase your social standing by making your own friends.
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To separate the effects of money from the effects of diet and choice of drink, Dr Barefoot, Dr Gronbaek and their team analysed data from a group of subjects who possessed similar financial means and social standing.
These artists, we are told, were doing "not just a portrait, but a painting" a work, in other words, in which the act being performed, conscious or unconscious, was more important than the subject's identity or social standing.
To the extent that judges sentence convicted executives to community service in place of prison, the work should not be an opportunity for those felons, whatever their social standing, to pad their resumes with marquee humanitarian work.
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The link between family size and social standing is a subject close to my heart and goes back to my own childhood in Karakore, a small town in Ethiopia, where I grew up the eldest of seven children.
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Mr Gribbin's prose is confident, and his amusing asides include an explanation of the origins of soda water and the observation that the length of a French nobleman's title was, by and large, inversely proportional to his social standing.
Dr. Manheimer paints a stirring portrait of the physicians' dedication to caring for patients regardless of social standing or ability to pay, yet when he complains that "it was almost impossible to get an organ for an undocumented immigrant, " one wonders how he made it happen.
There is a social cost to standing up for your beliefs and that social cost can be exacted within the family, the community or the workplace.
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None of that relay happened between the Secret Service and the Social Office, whether or not the Social Office was standing at the gate or whether or not somebody was sitting in their office at the White House.
There is no legal standing for social programs or welfare at the federal level in our Constitution.
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Will she be an Angelina Jolie ( No. 21 Power Woman), whose kids have been a boon to her professional standing and social gravitas, or a Dion, whose definition of motherhood has absorbed her career?
"They're doing the social media equivalent of standing outside the front doors of a high school at 3 o'clock as school lets out with a megaphone announcing that there'll be drugs, noz and alcohol for children, and then handing out fliers to all the kids that are interested, " Parker said.
This is social waste: people are standing in line at the unemployment office when they could be doing something productive.
He has a long-standing record of using social media to support grassroots causes, sometimes with a smart business flourish.
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He accused Prof Les Ebdon, director of the Office for Fair Access (Offa) and Alan Milburn, the government's social mobility tsar, of "standing firmly in favour of manipulation".
When the Miami Heat donned black hoodies to show their solidarity with those who protested Trayvon's death, that represented one of the biggest examples of today's sports stars standing up for a social cause.
Granted, Brooks does note a general preference for high-status mates, a keen sensitivity to evidence of our standing in the various social hierarchies we inhabit, and he does cite some empirical evidence to the effect that successful people tend to be self-deceived about their place in the social pecking order.
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The efforts of these organizations and many other like-minded groups are part of a national movement that would make social and emotional learning a free-standing, required learning standard for grades pre-k through 12.
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