The Ewe divide proverbs into two groups of metaphorical use according to social status and age of their performers. |
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Suggests that she only cares about social status, which is actually not as true as the average teen movie would have it. |
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They are clearly aware that there is no other way to elevate their social status except for working terribly hard. |
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For males, we noted all territorial and courtship behavior during censuses and used this information to determine the social status of a male. |
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Baltzell maintained that social status in the U.S. has been segregated along religious and regional lines. |
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The concern for self-improvement and bettering one's social status carried over to their communal home, the church. |
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In fact, social status throughout Polynesia had two quite distinct and separable aspects to it. |
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Reversal of social status via serotonergic activation appears to mimic chronic serotonergic activity. |
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The elders enjoy high prestige and occupy a high social status in a traditionalist culture. |
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Does a decline in the social status of the ministry as a profession weaken recruitment? |
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In her feminist analysis, Jeffreys argued that body art was a consequence of having lower social status in a male dominated society. |
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Narcissists look for mates with very high social status which complements an inflated sense of self. |
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The first was the birth or natal status of the child defined by social and canonical conventions, and the social status of the parents. |
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They tended to be the snobbiest group, their distinctive attitude focusing on gaining social status and pleasure. |
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You're the daughter of untitled gentry, holding little to no social status. |
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Class was defined as the individual's social status based partly on economic factors. |
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It seems that our perceptions of beauty are determined largely by our perceptions of social status. |
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That was when the presence of imported equipment in the house spelt social status and turned the neighbours green with envy. |
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With this success has come lots of positions in government, and a new social status for election winners within the party. |
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There is no distinction of class, wealth or social status made during the exercise, and all are treated as equal. |
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Money, social status, talent, opportunity and chance all define the contours of our inequality. |
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Previously batik's motifs and colors indicated the social status of the users. |
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You should feel proud of yourself for not being shallow and liking someone for social status or looks. |
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My social status among my friends rocketed as I was the only one with my own television. |
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His elevated social status allowed him to speak out on issues in exactly the way that he saw fit, no matter what the consequences. |
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Furthermore, clocks were a symbol of wealth and social status at that time. |
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She said the amount of disposable income people had to spend on fruit and vegetables was related to social status. |
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Problems caused by money and social status, and differing ideas of value and wealth, dominate the narrative. |
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Edith enters into the ruse not just because she likes him, but because it improves her social status. |
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The issue of the social status of ancient artists is multifaceted and complex. |
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With the change in social status and economic status, your entire mindset gets turned upside down virtually overnight. |
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The reader's interpretation depends on their culture, education, social status, etc., and that varies from individual to individual. |
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Inscriptions in public places can also indicate the social status of the artist. |
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He was a strict college professor who'd managed to rise to the upper social status himself. |
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In the villages, an automobile is an unusual and significant symbol of upper social status. |
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They are mediocre nonentities who demand to know your tax history, your type of business, your social status. |
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All of these arguments for social equality rightly stress the importance of people's social status or public standing. |
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Many observers noted that this system worked only as long as the officer enjoyed high social status. |
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American collectors may link acquiring art with social status, but there is also the real joy of the chase. |
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If he sounds a bit paranoid about the social status of art and artists, one can more or less understand. |
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Bronze bells are not only percussion instruments but also ritual instruments symbolic of social status and power. |
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It symbolizes not only her social status but also the psychological particularities of her character. |
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The hypersensitivity of certain characters to language in this play betrays their desire to mark social status linguistically. |
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Church seating and proximity to sacred space, in the form of closeness to the altar, were carefully regulated according to social status. |
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Teachers completed two measures of children's social status in the peer group. |
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In school, we were the meek, the shunned, the clueless, the kids with no social life or social status. |
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Maintain social status by winning at least as much as your inferiors and climb the ranks by winning more than your superiors. |
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Intellectuals of the era questioned traditional feudal ideas, including those concerning the roles of family members and women's social status. |
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I am often amazed at the social status, or lack thereof, that surrounds those who have followed the path of piscatorial adventure. |
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For the rest of the morning she issued conjectures about the change in her social status this swingset would bring about. |
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They signify social status by items of adornment such as feather plumes and large coiled, copper necklaces and armlets. |
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With no room for metaphor and no place for pagan poetics, Protestant discourse was undermining both a symbolic and a social status quo. |
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Alberti was particularly interested in Vitruvius' use of columns and arches to express social status and power. |
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The play puts flesh on the bones of these divergent characters, as differences in social status gradually yielded to grudging admiration. |
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They are seen as corrupt officials using their elevated social status for political gain. |
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Sitting, like other postures, is regulated all around the world according to gender, age, and social status. |
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However, the general pattern of double dependence on social status and formality is maintained. |
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However, all are divided into different levels of formality depending on the social status of the person being addressed. |
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After the revival movement, the social status of these cultural rituals declined precipitously. |
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As part of the feudal system, primogeniture maintained the political and social status of the aristocracy. |
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Examples include some designer label clothes where high price alone can add to a product's social status. |
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Although, it was hard to tell, on a day when social status appeared to be determinable purely by the size of your sunglasses. |
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The family claim they were gradually abandoned on account of their lowly social status. |
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In the twentieth century, food knowledge as well as dining out at the finest restaurants demonstrated social status. |
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We are all born to this Abba who takes us in regardless of our birthright, race, gender, language, or social status. |
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The length of the wake varies according to the social rank and social status of the dead. |
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Unlike the hereditary peerages of old, knighthoods are not bestowed according to birth or social status. |
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For the rest, entering the entertainment world means having a colourful lifestyle, fat monetary rewards and an enviable social status. |
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She was Cara's worshipper, nowhere near the same social status as Cara when it came to money. |
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As a result, even a three-year-old boy becomes the legal chief of the family and his mother is relegated to an inferior social status. |
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Wealth is a marker for social status, success, and respectability, just as poverty is stigmatising. |
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If marriage confers social status and respectability, adultery confers a stigma. |
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Women, it can rightly be said, are custodians of the social status that we all enjoy in that they play a major part in our upbringing. |
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Colonization broke the power of the traditional rulers, but social status is still partially determined by a person's family roots. |
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One must respect and greet one's elders regardless of their social status. |
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Enjoying a substantial social status, they produced topographical memoirs that provided information specifically devoted to the management of colonies by the state. |
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Fundamentalism attracts different class fractions across cultural locales in a common struggle against a diminishing or diminished social status, influence, and power. |
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We all work too hard to get more money in order to compete with each other, because we find falling behind in the social status that only money provides too painful. |
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Fischer speculated that the shifting social status of women during the war years stoked male anxiety about female bonding and independence from men. |
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It can be obtained through personal qualities or derived from non-personal characteristics such as wealth, social status, level of education, occupation, or authority. |
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Walter worships objects and cash, believing they will magically confer upon him the social status he so desperately craves. |
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The ultimate goal of any aggressive encounter is to obtain an elevated social status that confers an advantage to an individual in obtaining a resource. |
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The disproportion between his new self-perception and his actual social status as an ordinary businessman and later as a derided cult leader was unbearable. |
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Like testers intent on detecting feeble-mindedness among students, immigrants, and soldiers, child placers welcomed intelligence as a proxy for social status. |
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Statistically, females tend to marry men with a higher social status. |
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He codified a layered system of mosque types, reflecting hierarchies of social status and territorial rank, shaped by notions of identity, memory and decorum. |
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In polygamous ungulates the development of large body size, fighting abilities, and consequent high social status is important in male mating access. |
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An upcoming study shows that the more you engage in binge drinking, the higher your social status. |
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This inapt degree of welfare has been publicly acknowledged as a triggering factor for the low social status and recognition of teachers in society. |
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Their final point is the lack of fixity in one's social status. |
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Thus ownership of such objects suggested one's elevated social status. |
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The Di Fiore family is likewise desperate as they watch their once opulent estate crumble around them and fear their elevated social status hangs in the balance. |
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In this way they participated in the long European tradition of commissioning portraits to commemorate themselves and to declare their elevated social status. |
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Despite the practice of polygamy and men's near-monopoly of religious offices, women have a comfortable social status as they are owners of the conjugal house. |
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It shows that the lower a person's social status, the more likely he or she is to use a higher percentage of alveolar rather than velar nasal endings. |
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It seemed a reprehensible use of one's arbitrary social status. |
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Because of their lowly social status and outspoken behavior, the reputation of laundresses in late eighteenth-century Spain was problematic at best. |
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Views of the body and pollution, then, are not easily correlatable with actual social status. |
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However, over 110 of its 140 members were lesser gentry or of higher social status. |
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In any case, where universal suffrage exists, the right to vote is not restricted by race, sex, belief, wealth, or social status. |
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The 'wergild' set a monetary value on each person's life according to their wealth and social status. |
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The law texts take great care to define social status, the rights and duties that went with that status, and the relationships between people. |
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Frank have studied the extent to which economic activity is fueled by the ability of consumption to represent social status. |
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The privileges, penalties, and obligations due by law varied with the social status of the person concerned. |
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In the Netherlands in the 17th century, social status was largely determined by income. |
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Previously, the proper way to address people of the same or higher social status had been by title and surname. |
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Males may be trying to enhance their social status by being surrounded by friendly individuals. |
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The badge is variable in width and general size, and may signal social status or fitness. |
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For example, women previously had higher social status because they shared labor more equally with men. |
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Those who joined this group were given benefits, including better food as well as a better social status. |
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In Medieval Europe the surgeons social status improved greatly as their expertise was needed on the battlefield. |
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Babies were not given human social status until they reached two or three years of age due to the high infant mortality rates. |
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In the twentieth century, Mexican women made great strides toward toward a more equal legal and social status. |
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Maya households interred their dead underneath the floors of their houses, with offerings appropriate to the social status of the family. |
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Cartier, who was a respectable mariner, improved his social status in 1520 by marrying Mary Catherine des Granches, member of a leading family. |
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The class of scholar officials and intellectuals, traditional bearers of elite Chinese culture, lost substantial social status. |
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Social deixis concerns the social information that is encoded within various expressions, such as relative social status and familiarity. |
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Generally there is a shift to Scottish English in formal situations or with individuals of a higher social status. |
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Universal suffrage consists of the right to vote without restriction due to sex, race, social status, education level, or wealth. |
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I knew that I had achieved the very best rank I could have got, being held back only by my semilow social status. |
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Ephebos is a Greek word for an adolescent age group or a social status reserved for that age in Antiquity. |
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A few burials seem to indicate social status, though in other contexts an emphasis to special skills is more likely. |
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However, the nature of the works and the social status of the biographees guarantee a degree of uniformity which largely transcends literary fashion or market forces. |
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They can involve words being marked with various morphemes as well as nearly entirely different lexicons being used based on the social status of the interactants. |
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Large group of foreign migrants settled in China, who enjoyed elevated social status over the majority Han Chinese, while enriching Chinese culture with foreign elements. |
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He was recognised as a king by the Roman Senate, but how closely the Roman title matched Ariovistus's social status among the Germans remains unknown. |
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The transformation of the social status of Africans, from indentured servitude to slaves in a racial caste which they could not leave or escape, happened gradually. |
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In many parts of the world, large hoards of bronze artefacts are found, suggesting that bronze also represented a store of value and an indicator of social status. |
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It also brought about a general opinion among speakers of Low Saxon that having the slightest accent, in Dutch, would reduce job opportunities and social status. |
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Although the Netherlands was a tolerant nation compared to neighboring states, wealth and social status belonged almost exclusively to Protestants. |
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That is not to say that aristocrats were without social status. |
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Historians report there were very few signs, noting that social movements such as Methodism strongly encouraged conservative support for the political and social status quo. |
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The base sum was computed by the social status and position of the victim. |
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A chair was a prized award because of its perceived social status. |
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Actual usage of French varies depending on the region and social status. |
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I like both kinds of racing, thoroughbred and standardbred. Despite their lower social status, I like betting the trots just as much as I do the flats. |
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No sooner had President Washington been sworn in, wearing mousy, egalitarian brown broadcloth, than the sharp-elbowed jockeying for social status began. |
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