Although AmEx has spent zilch on promotion, some would-be customers go to absurd lengths to get what they see as a must-have status symbol. |
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The most prized status symbol of movie actors and pop singers today is their own restaurant. |
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It is status symbol, emblem of success, a marker that separates me from thee, mine from thine, my worth from your worthlessness. |
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To the Highlanders the Targe was both a life preserving tool and a status symbol with ornate decorations. |
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While seeing dogs wear clothes is a pet peeve for some, others suggest it's a status symbol. |
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For the customers that we're selling to, the car is quite a status symbol in itself. |
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She says the lawn is simply a status symbol brought over from Europe where it was considered a sign of power and wealth. |
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Even if the cellular phone is not really considered a status symbol, it has become part of fashion, an accessory. |
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As man's most important piece of jewelry, your watch should be considered an investment and the ultimate status symbol. |
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To Edinburgh it's a status symbol, marking it as a player in the consumer world. |
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Saudi Arabia is famous for gold and silver handicrafts, particularly jewelry fashioned as both a decorative art and as a status symbol. |
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The bicycle represents a valued possession, a means of earning a living, a status symbol, a way of impressing girls. |
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Smallness must have been fashionable and something of a status symbol in both the Apso and the Shih Tzu as well as the Pekingese. |
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Over the last decade, being over 30 and unattached has more than lost its stigma, it has actually become a status symbol. |
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Wearing a netsuke became a status symbol, and its style and value indicated the position and wealth of the person who was wearing it. |
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More than any other regularly produced watch, owning a Rolex is an investment and a status symbol, more than it is a teller of time. |
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It's a kind of status symbol to show you are modern, progressive, technically savvy and what not. |
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But it is a butler that many people crave, not just because he is the ultimate status symbol and most overt way of flaunting wealth. |
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In upper-middle-class circles it is now a status symbol to have four or more children. |
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Like blood ivory, some see it as a status symbol due to its perceived prestige and ballooned financial value. |
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Subcutaneous fat traditionally was an upper-class status symbol marking a well-fed woman capable of bearing children. |
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Still, I expect they had a good swank about their status symbol, as no doubt the future owners of the SodaStream Samsung will. |
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In the 19th century, Testubin became a kind of status symbol as multitudes of handmade and intricate designs flourished. |
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This impressive desk was both a status symbol and a highly functional object. |
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This development has left the way open for a new trend: personal handwriting as a status symbol. |
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Brands will become less of a status symbol and more an expression of individualization. |
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Certainly in the thirteenth century possession of a private chapel was a status symbol, though lesser gentry families might well receive this privilege. |
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Now, cell phones are not a status symbol but a public nuisance. |
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The beard is rather a sign of masculinity, partially religious commandment, a sign of ethnic affiliation or political avowal or simply a status symbol. |
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Having money is seen as sign of intelligence and it's a status symbol. |
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It was a status symbol of wealth and dignity to own a Shih Tzu. |
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In the Middle East, a cheetah riding shotgun in the plush leather seat of a luxury sports car is the ultimate status symbol. |
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These adorable, fairytale-like creations, which recall Alice In Wonderland and smack of defiant frivolity and impracticality, are the recessionista's status symbol of choice. |
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A tapestry like this was the ultimate luxury good and status symbol, worth so much more than a measly painting. |
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Cars, long a status symbol for American youth, are increasingly being passed-over by millennials the New York Times reports. |
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Llanelly House was at the cutting edge of architectural design when it was built in 1714 and an impressive status symbol of power and wealth for the tiny fishing town. |
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Having a film or television show set in your city is a statement of that city's value, a status symbol just as surely as a professional sports franchise or arena is. |
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In the past, smoking was fashionable and a status symbol, but today smokers are the social pariahs in many environments, particularly from increasing numbers of non-smokers. |
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The first was ugly and uncomfortable and the latter was less secure, although it did offer greater aesthetic appeal and value as a status symbol. |
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Major names are thus seeking to extend their product lines while respecting the original trade upon which their companies were founded, capitalizing on their brand image and the status symbol that they convey. |
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The Grand Tour became a real status symbol for upper class students in the 18th and 19th centuries. |
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The Italians considered maiolica a status symbol. |
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The status symbol of the latrine design plays a role for women and men. |
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Will people keep buying it when it's no longer a status symbol? |
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Together with the refrigerator, the television set and standard pieces of furniture that should be found in a middle-class home, the presence of domestic workers, even if they are only children, is an important status symbol. |
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From mythical times to today, gold has always been a status symbol. |
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While parents particularly appreciate the safety and control aspect of mobiles, children perceive mobile phones as a status symbol and tool with which to organise their free time. |
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Tool, status symbol or man's most faithful companion? |
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As a result of the work of sculptor William Leslie, and later Sidney Field, granite memorials became a major status symbol in Victorian Britain. |
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The type of firearm carried can also be viewed as a status symbol. |
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Invariably, the people who keep these dogs keep them as a status symbol and are not responsible dog owners. |
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My heart sinks that people do not yet understand that if you are going to get a dog, don't get it as a status symbol. |
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But the survey also found 39 percent of men chose family as their top choice of the ultimate status symbol. |
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These red plates have become a status symbol in the UAE, with low or unique numbers signaling the wealth and prestige of the driver behind the wheel. |
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Customers have a latent desire to be environmentally friendly, but there must be a direct incentive or benefit to them, such as an associated status symbol linked to a particular technology. |
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When using alkaline batteries, the battery status symbol at the bottom of the receiver's depth mode screen will indicate the battery life remaining. |
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It's almost like a status symbol here, going to jail. |
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That is why he believes primarily public and non-motorized transport strategies should be supported, which often clashes with the view of the car as a status symbol. |
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The rich and wealthy Mexican drug lords often choose beautiful young models to be their girlfriends and wives, as a status symbol. |
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Being raided by IT folks is no longer the status symbol of choice. |
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Not only were they practical in that they ensured a water supply and fresh fish, but they were a status symbol as they were expensive to build and maintain. |
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Brooklyn-based Nate Hill said that his project, Trophy Scarves, was designed to highlight the fact that many black man see dating a white women as a status symbol. |
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In China, pairs of walnuts have traditionally been rotated and played with in the palm of the hand, both as a means to stimulate blood circulation and as a status symbol. |
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Rare furs have been a notable status symbol throughout history. |
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