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Over time, however, denominations like Catholics, Methodists, and Mormons tended to move upscale, even as upwardly mobile individuals switched to higher-status denominations.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

Males are more attractive when they are are higher-status, relative to the females in question.

Are Husbands Really Like Potatoes?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Now, they are trading back up to higher-status brands as the stock market bounces back.

Wealthy Treated Themselves During The Holidays AP 2011

Researchers said higher-status men might feel emasculated by placing themselves in a subordinate position of patient or avoid health care as a means of exerting their independence.

Military Members at Risk for Joint Problems Ann Lukits 2011

Now, they are trading back up to higher-status brands as the stock market bounces back.

Wealthy Treated Themselves During The Holidays AP 2011

That is, individuals raised in those countries may be reluctant to disagree with their supervisors or to speak up in meetings full of higher-status individuals.

Getting More Hispanics To The Top Miguel A. Quinones 2010

A higher-status clan is more self-conscious, hence more stoic.

Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010

Low horses on the totem pole get beat up, chased, and otherwise dominated by higher-status herdmates.

BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » Things Horse People Take for Granted 2010

We all want good teachers for our own children on their path to higher-status professions, but we don't really value the education of children on the whole.

Letters: March 15, 2010 2010

Such as that of Mukhtar Mai, who grew up in a peasant village in southern Punjab and was gang-raped as a child by members of a higher-status local clan.

Half the Sky: how the trafficking of women today is on a par with genocide 2010