More than once I was confronted by professional gamblers, `` bookies '', loan `` sharks '', gangsters, `` thugs '' and `` finger men '' -- people of a class I did not even know existed -- to repay my husband's staggering losses, `` or else '' I shuddered to think that someone so dear to me could even associate with such a sinister milieu.

Though it did not become known to the writer for some time, a nucleus group had sprung up within the class.

But many Criollos did not want to lose the class privileges, in any new republics, and the most among the coloured majorities ( Indians, blacks and mixed-bloods ) did not want to lose the backing that they had from the Crown and Catholic Church.

Meanwhile, she says, the " feminist movement ", a largely white middle and upper class affair, did not articulate the needs of poor and non-white women, thus reinforcing sexism, racism, and classism.

Prior to the 1867 Reform Bill the working class did not possess the vote and therefore had little tangible political power.

It was intended specifically for the new class of users that time-sharing systems allowed — that is, a less technical user who did not have the mathematical background of the more traditional users and was not interested in acquiring it.

As the class structure in America changed, so did measures of real wealth.

About 80 % of the class of 2010 did research through the annual Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships ( SURF ) program at least once during their stay, and many continued during the school year.

Confucius had advocated a sensitivity to the realpolitik of the class relations in his time ; he did not propose that " might makes right ", but that a superior who had received the " Mandate of Heaven " ( see below ) should be obeyed because of his moral rectitude.

Although conservatives opposed attempts to allow greater representation of the middle class in parliament, in 1834 they conceded that electoral reform could not be reversed and promised to support further reforms so long as they did not erode the institutions of church and state.

* The faculty member overseeing the capstone submissions felt that students who did not enroll in the technical writing class were at a significant disadvantage when compared to their peers who did register for the course.

However, existing law requires judicial approval of all class action settlements, and in most cases class members are given a chance to opt out of class settlement, though class members, despite opt-out notices, may be unaware of their right to opt out because they did not receive the notice, did not read it, or did not understand it.

The concept of labor as a special class is outmoded, and in the task confronting America as bastion of the free world, labor must learn to put the national interest first if it is itself to survive.

Kikuchiyo castigates his comrades for ignoring the hardships that the farmers have to overcome to survive, including harassment from the warrior class.

The samurai class fails to survive while the Daimyo turn to politics.

Other traditions of working class entertainment survive on Shoreditch High Street where the music halls of yesteryear have been replaced by the greatest concentration of striptease venues in London ( Clifton 2002 ).

The crucial factor enabling Prussia's conservative regime to survive the Vormärz era was a rough coalition between leading sectors of the landed upper class and the emerging commercial and manufacturing interests.

Moreover, the near-total mechanisation and automation of the industrial production system would allow the ( newly ) dominant bourgeois capitalist social class to exploit the working class to the degree that the value obtained from their labour would diminish the ability of the workers to materially survive.

The few that survive usually remain in the intermediate crown class.

Those cells that survive positive and negative selection differentiate into single-positive T cells ( either CD4 + or CD8 +), depending on whether their TCR recognizes an MHC class I-presented antigen ( CD8 ) or an MHC class II-presented antigen ( CD4 ).

At a Washington, D. C. convention in 1935, Rutherford rejected Russell's teaching that the " great company " of Revelation 7: 9 was a " secondary spiritual class " composed of millions of Christians who would be resurrected to heaven apart from the 144, 000 " elect ", and instead argued that the " great multitude ", the " sheep " of Matthew 25 and the " Jonadabs " of 2 Kings chapter 10 all picture the people who could potentially survive Armageddon and receive everlasting human life on earth if they became Jehovah's Witnesses before it began.

This " reverse support " helped CP / CMS concepts survive and evolve, despite VM's " second class citizen " status at IBM.

Examples of this style survive in the former upper class areas along Jarvis and Sherbourne Street and also within the University of Toronto campus.

Will learns that the only way to survive is to bond closely with the other members of his class against the cadre.

Many semi-detached houses survive from 1930s, when there was a need for new housing in the town as a result of a growing population and an increasingly wealthy middle class.

In his review of the movie Larry Crowne on CBS News Sunday Morning, David Edelstein describes the movie as "... a thoughtful portrait of middle-class life in the age of corporate capitalism, and of ( pay attention, class ) people who survive without becoming either zombie wage-slaves or pinko malcontents.

; Tori Hanson: One of the rangers and the Blue Wind Ranger ; a surfer, she was one of the three Wind Ninja students of her class to survive Lothor's attack. She also has a big crush on the Navy Thunder ranger, Blake.

; Dustin Brooks: One of the three main characters and the Yellow Wind Ranger ; a motocross biker, he was one of the three Wind Ninja students of his class to survive Lothor's attack.

In revenge, Parasurama resolves to slaughter the entire class of warriors ( ksatriyas ), and so far succeeds that only five survive to continue the great dynasties.

A fairly large number ( about 57, confirmed so far ) of the class survive into preservation, with a 58th example still in service as of 2012.

Jesus Lewis is the manager and chief scientist of Lab One which is a genetic engineering facility that is working on genetically modified clones of human beings in order to develop a class of engineered human beings who can survive the predators of Pandora.

All-in-all he depicted the Serbian middle class and its morality, which managed to survive despite all the political and social reforms, newly formed educational system and cultural institutions.

The club is characterised by its remote, northern location, its working class heritage ( mining and cane farming ), the doggedness of administrators and on field players who share a steely resolve to survive and succeed, despite the odds.

Capitalism may produce one class ( bourgeoisie ) who possess the means of production for the whole of society and another class who possess only their own labour power, which they must sell in order to survive.

Marxists during the Cultural Revolution described Confucius as the general representative of the class of slave owners.

Since then Mao's peasant revolutionary vision and so-called " continued revolution under the dictatorship of the proletariat " stipulated that class enemies continued to exist even though the socialist revolution seemed to be complete, giving way to the Cultural Revolution.

Alexis de Tocqueville argued that the Revolution was a manifestation of a more prosperous middle class becoming conscious of its social importance.

Other historians, influenced by Marxist thinking, have emphasized the importance of the peasants and the urban workers in presenting the Revolution as a gigantic class struggle.

From a social class perspective, the Gulag is an offspring of the working class which became a leading class of society after the October Revolution.

* Toward the Scientific Revolution From MIT OpenCourseWare, class materials for the history of science up to and including Isaac Newton.

In terms of social structure, the Industrial Revolution witnessed the triumph of a middle class of industrialists and businessmen over a landed class of nobility and gentry.

The Industrial Revolution created a larger middle class of professionals such as lawyers and doctors.

From December 1851 to March 1852 Marx wrote The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, a work on the French Revolution of 1848, in which he expanded upon his concepts of historical materialism, class struggle and the dictatorship of the proletariat, advancing the argument that victorious proletariat has to smash the bourgeois state.

Although most felt the Russian Revolution was working class in character, they believed that, since capitalist relations still existed ( because the workers had no say in running the economy ), the Soviet Union ended up as a state capitalist country, with the state replacing the individual capitalist.

Before the Revolution, despite supporting political reform ( including Bolsheviks elected to the Duma, when opportune ), Lenin proposed that capitalism could ultimately only be overthrown with revolution, not with gradual reforms — from within ( Fabianism ) and from without ( social democracy ) — which would fail, because the ruling capitalist social class, who hold economic power ( the means of production ), determine the nature of political power in a bourgeois society.

The reason for this apparent contradiction lies in the fact that those ' to the left ' of the parliamentary left, outside of official parliamentary structures ( such as the sans-culottes of the French Revolution ), typically represent much of the working class, poor peasantry, and the unemployed.

As the Industrial Revolution moved large numbers of workers into the cities, a permanently landless, and therefore voteless, class developed.

" Revolution " is not necessarily defined by revolutionary socialists as violent insurrection, but as a complete dismantling and rapid transformation of all areas of class society led by the majority of the masses: the working class.

Although most council communists felt the Russian Revolution was working class in character, they believed that the Soviet Union was a state capitalist country, with the state replacing the individual capitalists ( an additional argument in favour of that was the continued existence of capitalist relations, as manifested e. g. in the New Economic Policy ).

Although the Chinese Communist Party officially condemns the Cultural Revolution, there are many Chinese people who hold more positive views of it, particularly amongst the working class, who benefited most from its policies.

The main focus of the study of Karl Marx was the working class of the Industrial Revolution.

In 1791, as the French Revolution progressed, the National Assembly researched a new method to be used on all condemned people regardless of class.

By the middle of the 19th century, subsequent to the Industrial Revolution ( 1750 – 1850 ), the great expansion of the bourgeoisie social class caused its self-stratification — by business activity and by economic function — into the haute bourgeoisie ( bankers and industrialists ) and the petite bourgeoisie ( tradesmen and white-collar workers ).

From the Quiet Revolution to the passing of Bill 101, French in Quebec saw a period of validation in its varieties associated with the working class while the percentage of literate and university educated francophones grew.