How To Use Privilege In A Sentence

Laura Wade's Posh, timed to open as the Tories edged into power in May 2010, reminded us just what we were in for: overprivileged hooligans in drinking-society blazers who trash a pub as thoughtlessly as they will trash the country. Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre
The only defence remaining alive at present is, therefore, I suggest, the disputed decision about qualifying privilege.
Remember that even if your surgery is performed in an office or surgicenter, your surgeon should have hospital privileges to perform that procedure. You: On a Diet
How anyone could have read some sinister intent into those views is indeed puzzling, and illustrates well how those damned Jewshow certain hypersensitive and overly privileged people who feel superior to the rest of the world are willing to cut their own throats for short term advantage by using unjustified charges of anti-semitism to point out how they take advantage of their position in any nation or institution who trusts them so as to benefit their own in group at the expense of that nation or institution. The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Catholics and Jews?
This blogger is a seriously insecure woman who needs to examine her shaky sense of privilege before again attempting to write about transpeople. The Brave One Goes Crazy And Murders Weekend Box Office

The problems of your past are your business. The problems of your future are my privilege.
The court say that, "to be a citizen it is necessary that he should be entitled to the enjoyment of these privileges and immunities, upon the same terms upon which they are conferred upon other citizens; and unless he is so entitled, _he cannot, in the proper sense of the term, be a citizen_. An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the Charge of Illegal Voting
Class privilege has reached the point where the entire society is ruled by a plutocracy.
With the Shared Model architecture, changes made in one process element are (depending on access privileges) immediately visible and accessible to other process elements.
They come from a privileged/wealthy background.
They have said they want to reduce the pensions of privileged federal civil servants and use the money for social programmes.
Almost half a century later their privileged lifestyle and their aura of being an exclusive caste still attracted comment.
It is a great privilege to be attending this conference.
Why give this special privilege to the king? Times, Sunday Times
Unlike partnerships in which the partners decide policy, in the business corporation the equity owners relinquished their privilege in favour of the directors.
What began as a cheap and easy way to disguise the taste of alcohol in prohibition America quickly became the drink of choice for the privileged fast set of the 1920s.
Commonly the groom or his family gave the infare, but often enough some generous and well-to-do friend, or kinsman, pre-empted the privilege. Dishes & Beverages of the Old South
Dio Cassius can scarcely be mistaken when he says that Tyre and Sidon were "enslaved" -- i.e. deprived of freedom -- by Augustus, [14477] who must certainly have revoked the privilege originally granted by Pompey. History of Phoenicia
This implementation of the principle of least privilege helps contain security breaches arising from buggy code, malicious code, user error and malicious users.
Prisoner 651304 Hughes had been awarded three months loss of remission, plus the removal of televisual privileges for six weeks. THE SCAR
Any golfer who qualified for the Tour had assuredly earned and paid for the privilege.
Wealth as an instrument of social control is a privilege of rank or of birth.
But privilege came with risk and promises were betrayed. Times, Sunday Times
Unprivileged belligerency is not a violation of the law of war for Omar Khadr any more than it would be for you to fight against an invading army to protect your home and family. Balkinization
Some of the officials have special privileges.
That's right, vast swabs of the offending speech are reproduced under the cover of the Parliamentary privilege that had been so abused.
We are privileged to have internationally important fish stocks on our doorstep, including salmon in the River Kent, and rare species such as char and schelly in the nearby lakes.
It made me realise I'm living in a nest of privileged Tory vipers!
It is unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate wealth.
There are various classes of Secular Abbots; some have both jurisdiction and the right to use the pontifical insignia; others have only the abbatical dignity without either jurisdiction or the right to pontificalia; while yet another class holds in certain cathedral churches the first dignity and the privilege of precedence in choir and in assemblies, by reason of some suppressed or destroyed conventual church now become the cathedral. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
The other recurring problem is the avoidance of military service by privileged youth during peacetime and combat duty during wars.
Part of the privilege we have as Canadians is that we can express our beliefs openly.
Such is human nature in the West that a great many people are often willing to sacrifice higher pay for the privilege of becoming white collar workers.
a curative process, but an ardent believer of the reality of somnambular clairvoyance as an invaluable gift of certain privileged organizations. A Strange Story — Volume 01
Though you were our ally you seized by force a city in alliance with us, namely Messene, which had been admitted to our friendship and enjoyed precisely the same privileges as Lacedaemon. The History of Rome, Vol. V
I consider myself highly privileged to have this opportunity.
One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining. Garrison Keillor
In the early days, during the service, the congregants had the odd practice of auctioning the aliyoth or ‘privileges’ given to certain congregants, the money being used to maintain the synagogue.
He is undertaking the walk in order to raise money for victims of the tsunami disaster and underprivileged people in the local community.
This emphasis upon a shared European cultural and biological heritage allowed Anglos to claim the social privileges of whiteness for their Mexican spouses.
No universal rule can be laid down, but often an expedient can be used to provide reasons without revealing confidential or privileged evidence.
His roots may be privileged ones, but his work ethic is fierce and focused, a powerful example for young and aspirant artists.
But if being a banker is a personal privilege, it is also a public right. The Business of Bank Mergers: A Sound Strategy for Canada
The debate about alpine grazing is not about horses or horsemen, it is about a small number of privileged families who pay the equivalent of about one week of normal agistment fees for five months cattle agistment in an alpine national park.
As the younger became more wilful and wayward, making the most of her privileged status, the elder became more withdrawn, worried about her destiny.
Healthcare should be a right, not a privilege.
These are the privileged few who had intimate meetings with the candidates in corporate suites and the private dens of the super rich.
Yet one cannot be too strict in policing the boundaries between these two levels, for in drawing attention to the poetics of articulation, "Mont Blanc" suggests that philosophical argument inevitably relies on representations of an embodied "I," narrative exempla, privileged metaphors, and repeated terms. Rhyming Sensation in 'Mont Blanc'
For years they have marched, waved flags and mouthed slogans whilst the people elected them to offices of wealth and privilege.
The user group with an inherently greater potential for implementation is the more privileged section of the society.
Canada it was voted by the English Parliament to reannex the territory northwest of the Ohio to Canada and to permit the settlers to share in the rights and privileges of the Canadian province. The Loyalist A Story of the American Revolution
You can enjoy all the benefits and privileges of club membership.
Privilege determined by birth is an offence to any modern sense of justice.
This was despite requests from Churchill and the British Royal Family that the king be granted greater diplomatic privileges.
And the privilege, ancient though it be, to beat her with a stick, to pull her hair, choke her, spit in her face or kick her about the floor, or to inflict upon her like indignities, is not now acknowledged by our law .... 'Trivial Complaints:' The Role of Privacy in Domestic Violence Law and Activism in the U.S.
That is what goes with being in such a privileged position. The Sun
It is great value with exclusive queue-jumping privileges at some attractions.
It was heavily funded by Otto I, who gave the abbess of the monastery much power and privilege.
But she saw nothing wrong with indulging a few kisses with the hottie with the most piercing blue peepers she has had the privilege of seeing.
What role do state institutions play in shaping identities and constructing beliefs about deviance that privilege some groups and pathologize others?
But on this particular day it seemed as if some of the ingredients were wanting, for the morning and afternoon passed, to the astonishment of all, without a single "phiz" as the girls were wont somewhat felicitously to call the frequent passages of arms in which the two girls considered it their peculiar privilege to indulge. Hollowmell or, A Schoolgirl's Mission
Only a privileged few elephant seal bulls will become beach masters, controlling dozens of females and reproducing abundantly.
I am privileged to have escaped the monotonous toil of endless physical labour and to have experienced a soft life in which I have been able to indulge my passion for history.
The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study. Che Guevara
We lived an expat life of total privilege. Times, Sunday Times
The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study. Che Guevara
What a refreshing change to the pomp and privilege that usually surrounds the Royal Family. The Sun
Not everything said or written on an occasion of qualified privilege is protected.
These clubs are the last bastions of male privilege.
The Russian Federation has issued a decree abolishing special privileges for government officials.
Ministers were as anxious as their predecessors to preserve Britain's privileged position in the Western alliance.
They expressed the triumph of legal equality and state authority over the privileges of the landed aristocracy.
Those most vulnerable, the homeless, the underprivileged, and the downtrodden, will have to sweat in the heat as they wait for the postperson to bring them their inadequate social assistance. The Last Snowflake
Yet none of them exudes a sense of power or particular privilege. Times, Sunday Times
Neither have various other usuries been included, such as high interest or payment of expenses in case of delays, all of which go to swell the gain that a Bisáya considers his right and his privilege when he has to deal with beings whom he hardly classes as men. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir
According to Berman, brain images and models may skew and privilege model-friendly properties over existential characteristics of life and thought.
The bourgeois or patrician oligarchies found it easier to defend their privileges.
In return for such a privilege we implicitly acknowledge that there are reciprocal obligations incumbent upon us.
This expansive alteration of the Federal System was to have been achieved by converting the rights of the citizens of each State as of the date of the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment into privileges and immunities of United States citizenship and thereafter perpetuating this newly defined _status quo_ through judicial condemnation of any State law challenged as "abridging" any one of the latter privileges. The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952
Honourability and integrity might well have been his middle names, and when he retired and put the uniform away he did so with a record of service behind him that anyone would be proud and indeed privileged to have.
This quaint ceremonial, still annually observed in the secluded capital of Buddhism-the Rome of Asia-is interesting because it exhibits, in a clearly marked religious stratification, a series of divine redeemers themselves redeemed, of vicarious sacrifices vicariously atoned for, of gods undergoing a process of fossilisation, who, while they retain the privileges, have disburdened themselves of the pains and penalties of divinity. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
N., the national agencies held veto power, giving them a privileged status befitting their clout and status.
This is not to say that there are not PNM MPs who sometimes abuse parliamentary privilege.
File sharing allows for the public or private sharing of computer data or space in a network with various levels of access privilege.
a corporation, without a charter, such adulterine guilds, as they were called, were not always disfranchised upon that account, but obliged to fine annually to the king, for permission to exercise their usurped privileges {See Madox Firma Burgi p. 26 etc.}. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Students from a privileged background have an advantage at university.
The true differential is that the so-called “right to vote” is actaully a privilege conferred on the individual by the soceity/government. The Volokh Conspiracy » Violent Misdemeanants, the Right to Bear Arms, and the Right to Vote
Lady Boothroyd stood by her refusal to grant the privileges when she was Speaker, saying she had been determined to ‘protect the rules of the House of Commons’.
The actual privilege and social status of members of the retainer class varied considerably. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
State monopolies or privileged private companies secure strategic resources and keep open the conduits that provide money to the metropole.
They treat you as an honoured guest, as if the privilege and pleasure is theirs, not yours.
I had the privilege of living in artichoke country in Northern California for many years. Shipping artichokes
Sometime during the regal period a group of gentes, called patricians, secured for themselves certain political and religious privileges to the exclusion of other plebeian gentes. C. Economy, Society, and Culture
As the classical imagination rightly observed, we all have a tendency to privilege the contents of the ego in service to our security (this they called hybris) and a tendency to view the world through the colored lens granted us by fate (this they called the hamartia) and end by deceiving ourselves. California Literary Review
The only defence remaining alive at present is, therefore, I suggest, the disputed decision about qualifying privilege.
What limitations should be placed on these rights and privileges? A Conceptual View of Human Resource Management: Strategic Objectives, Environments, Functions
I began to count the ways in which I enjoy unearned skin privilege and have been conditioned into oblivion about it existence.
In my segment of over-privileged middle-class London, countless respectable parents are sheltering a great lummox of a son whose only apparent plan is never to amount to anything.
Today it is the privilege of this joint meeting of The Empire Club of Canada and The Canadian Club to welcome him and to express to him our very sincere appreciation of his kindness in sparing time to come and talk to us. The Secret of the Spirit of Britain
The privilege of writing this column is the regular invitations to book launches. Times, Sunday Times
He is approached by a pair of twin preppies from Connecticut, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss (both played by actor Armie Hammer) - two privileged types who row crew and have the Olympics in their sites. Marshall Fine: Movie review: The Social Network
Monica enjoyed a privileged and leisured lifestyle, she did not have to work and had no children.
The difference between you and I (feel free to opt out of the "stereotype" if you wish, but turnabout is fair play, so as you stereotype me I will return the favor) ... the difference is that I support all of our rights and any privilege that does not interfere with the rights of others. Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off
It was a great privilege to hear her sing.
I was dating a man at the time, and got kind of cheesed off when my dearest friend/ex-wife who, not incidentally, dated a bisexual woman for several years got all snarky with me about the “heterosexual privilege” thing. Biphobia in the GLBT community from a bi man’s point of view
Is physical ability provided what to privilege enjoy in the link that pays tax?
He has recently returned from a trip to America to help launch Camp Fiver, a recreational camp for underprivileged children in New York State.
The feudal deference, and the ingrate privileges, crumble under the pressure for social equity.
Impeccably decked out in designer threads and carrying microscopic mobile phones, they had a fresh-faced, privileged look.
Not talking about things is a privilege granted to those in unmarked categories. Silence is complicity. « A Bird’s Nest
I also considered renaming this "The Cisgendered Privilege Knapsack," because I like the word "cisgendered" and would like to propagate it, but the original author whoever it is called it the non-trans privilege checklist, and who am I to change that? The Non-Trans Privilege Checklist
I already have issues with the term "ally" because it is built on assumed power and privilege and allies are often given far too much face time. Bruce Reyes-Chow: The Ally Dilemma on National Coming Out Day
The old priests were deprived of their posts and privileges.
Legally privileged information obtained by a source is extremely unlikely ever to be admissible as evidence in criminal proceedings.
Socially, the fabric is often as fragmented as the physical one, with immigrants from rural areas or from abroad mixed hugger-mugger with some of the least privileged traditional citizens.
Privilege and exclusiveness are the most important roots causing conflicts among religions.
Working for the occupiers also gives him privileges. Times, Sunday Times
MPs should be held to account if they unfairly abuse parliamentary privilege and hurt innocent Kiwi families.
Don't abuse the privilege of having my cell number by wasting my valuable time on this kind of footling nonsense.
It is a sad fact that musical education seems to be for the privileged few, despite the well-intentioned efforts of established musicians. Times, Sunday Times
The privilege afforded famous scientists, Surowiecki argues, has undervalued the genius of the scientific ethos: its commitment to meritocracy.
Polite, deferential service in an old-school Continental-restaurant mode increases the sense of being suspended in a bubble of privilege for a few comfortable hours.
This school seems more bastion of privilege than object of charity. Times, Sunday Times
official privileges
There's also another method to use so the user is placed directly into privileged exec mode when telnetting in, avoiding the enable password prompt.
The problems of your past are your business. The problems of your future are my privilege.
Everyone who reaches retirement age is given benefit privileges that far exceed anything he has paid in -- exceed his payments by more than ten times (or five times counting employer payments)! Bartlett and Krugman, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
The scary thing is that these guys remain so largely, maybe even wilfully, unconscious of their power and privilege, and have so much influence - for now.
Education should be a universal right and not a privilege.
Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), raising questions Oscar Cruz yesterday slammed the Arroyo administration for continuously invoking executive privilege over what he called dubious government contracts, the latest WN.com - Articles related to New Treatments Hold Hope for Failing Eyes
MPs should not abuse Parliamentary privilege by lying to the public.
The right to e-mail a person will become a cherished privilege.
Serving a company in a foreign land, for example, is no longer either a privilege or a hardship.
Meanwhile local people are bestowed the privilege of renting. Times, Sunday Times
I'll just be blunt: i find it more than a little ironic that he seems to be defending some of the most privileged people I've ever encountered from the "elitism" of the orcing hordes. Poetry month: nikki giovanni
One of the privileges granted to them was the right to sell their wine wholesale, free of duties.
One undoubted privilege of the office is that of being listened to.
Thus Dawkins, for example, used facts about inheritance, e.g. that genes are faithfully replicated across generations while whole genotypes and organismic characters are not, to privilege the gene as the unit of selection.
I protest to the fact that anyone who has a problem with so much money gone to frivolity is deemed a terrorist by an arrogant politician who has no clue what it’s like tobe underprivileged. Why Protest the Olympics « Colleen Anderson
The team will sell hot dogs at tailgate parties to raise money for ConAgra's Feeding Children Better initiative for the homeless and underprivileged kids.
The stories are heartbreaking, but the privilege of the briefest of glimpses of the lost lives is also revealing and inspiring.
Olympian is privileged to work a little longer by the light of the useful "tolly," Caesar and Jonathan would talk freely of past, present, and future. The Hill A Romance of Friendship
Such laws exist only to conserve the privilege of this selfish minority.
But a hankering for privileged information was not all that drew us there. Christianity Today
In this one privilege, therefore, of receiving the Spirit, are all others inwrapped; for, -- 2. Pneumatologia
The accusation is that they disregard the legitimacy of contrary opinion on the principle that judgement is their prerogative alone, that they are asserting a privileged status, expecting it to be recognised. More on Critique
The liberalities of the privileged West are no guarantor of true creativity. Turmoil and Triumph
More activities are taking place in public or privileged space. Times, Sunday Times
What we’re not supposed to think about are the people who were displaced by the affirmative action babies being given special privileges to obtain coveted spots in top schools. The Volokh Conspiracy » Bruce Bartlett’s Attack on Libertarianism
In depressingly familiar style the president's family and cronies formed a privileged elite. Times, Sunday Times
You can enjoy all the benefits and privileges of club membership.
it resulted in a complete denial of his privileges
Factions within the party were hostile to antiquated academic privileges and promoted new forms of applied scientific research and practice.
Quality Assurer Quality Assurer privilege allows you to grant or deny approval to packages using option 1.5.3.
It all set a tone of exclusivity and privilege, an air of refinement reserved for corporate leaders and tweedy intellectuals.
In order to consolidate and expand their privilege, theywould carry out revisionism.
But the British crown in the Jihai Perhaps it is no such privilege.
This is a privileged position to be in. Times, Sunday Times
Look, voting is a privilege as well as a right and if you don't vote, you should be ashamed of yourself.
Even where the facts are there to contradict him, his personal belief is privileged over external evidence.
Children from an underprivileged family background are statistically more likely to become involved in crime.
Fashion design, she feared, would become the pastime of a privileged elite. Times, Sunday Times
Especially in this country, we have allowed the development of a narrative in the media which privileges suspicion of domestic politicians over the understanding of global movements.
It was above all the smile of dramatic irony, of those who have privileged information.
In bestowing the sovereignty on the King of Prussia, care was taken that he should confirm all the doubtful privileges of the people; for it is a fundamental maxim of this little state, "_that the sovereignty resides not in the person of the prince, but in the state_". A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium
The privilege of writing this column is the regular invitations to book launches. Times, Sunday Times
I have had the privilege of meeting Brendan, and he is a really nice chap, a splendid fellow.
For eight years the hierarchy has declined to comment on his departure from Maynooth citing legal privilege and only broke its silence a week ago due to relentless media pressure.
He received a letter saying that it was legally privileged. Times, Sunday Times
The statute defines "a notour bankrupt" to be any debtor who, being under diligence by horning or caption, at the instance of his creditors, shall be either imprisoned, or retire to the abbey or any other privileged place, or flee or abscond for his personal security, or defend his person by force, and who shall afterwards be found, by sentence of the lords of session, to be insolvent. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
China -- Germany renounces in favor of China all privileges and indemnities resulting from the Boxer protocol of 1901, and all buildings, wharves, barracks, forts, munitions or warships, wireless plants, and other property (except diplomatic) in the German concessions of Tientsin and Hankow and in other Chinese territory except Kiaochow, and agrees to return to China at her own expense all the astronomical instruments seized in 1901. History of the American Negro in the Great World War His Splendid Record in the Battle Zones of Europe; Including a Resume of His Past Services to his Country in the Wars of the Revolution, of 1812, the War of Rebellion, the Indian Wars on the Frontier, t
Having grown used to a privileged lifestyle, sleeping over at the palace and stuff, he liked it so much he wanted a share in the spoils.
Furthermore, many clerics in the eighteenth century held modest livings though they too occupied a position of privilege in society.
A Cotswold-Severn tomb is one of the classic sites of British prehistory, and to have an opportunity to excavate one completely was such a treat, and a privilege.
He's perfectly happy, Mr Speaker, to stand by and allow his senior colleagues to traduce his reputation under Parliamentary privilege, Mr Speaker.
In republishing Céline's work in virtual form, no one version of it would be privileged.
Communications between a person and his legal advisor have absolute privilege which can only be waived by the client.
Some one wrote in all capital letters that unqualified disabled workers were slacking off and getting special privileges.
Departmental supervisors first enter identifying data about the employee for whom privileges are requested and about the requester into an intranet form.
Cariaga's innovative language-oriented poetry challenges the assumption that avant-garde poetics is the privileged terrain of white heterosexual male poets.
There must be a form of political organization designed to protect and promote privilege and prestige. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
To refer to all snowmen as "snowmen" is to demonstrate your snowprivilege. CaroLINES
I asked them if they supposed a nation of people ever existed, who, with a free vote in every man's hand, would elect that a single family and its descendants should reign over it forever, whether gifted or boobies, to the exclusion of all other families -- including the voter's; and would also elect that a certain hundred families should be raised to dizzy summits of rank, and clothed on with offensive transmissible glories and privileges to the exclusion of the rest of the nation's families -- _including his own_. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3.
All while she was unable to violate the yoke of the unprecedented use of the arcane "States Secrets Privilege", invoked by the DoJ in such a draconian fashion that she is still "gagged" from disclosing even innocuous personal details such as her date of birth. Brad Friedman: EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Ellsberg Says Sibel Edmonds Case 'Far More Explosive Than Pentagon Papers'
School officials can lose this qualified privilege if they act in bad faith or without regard for whether the statements are true.
Those who enjoyed the privileges of being a director of an incorporated business did not appear to be aware of the duties they had.
In some, but not all, forms of legal process, witnesses and parties attending and returning from court are privileged from arrest.
If a cohen raises a boy as his son, the boy will not have the privileges nor the constraints of the priesthood.
He had no special privileges and was treated just like every other prisoner.
We have been privileged to get a tourist visa to visit that place thanks to him. Times, Sunday Times
It is unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate wealth.
I wasn't sure whether the issue was one of social privilege or gender exclusion, or both.
It will mean an immediate end to all inherited privilege and a drastic reduction in income inequality.
Licensure of practitioners of various pseudosciences is often treated as endorsement and as a gateway to greater privileges.
It is my pleasure to welcome you into full Met citizenship, with all the privileges thereto attached. METAPLANETARY
Not even the privilege of parliamentary participation is enough to appease those who wanted the presidency at whatever cost.
When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love. Marcus Aurelius
I have long held the view that A-Levels are an embarrassing anachronism, just another mechanism for separating the privileged from the unprivileged.
You must be one of the privileged few who know what “neo-conservatism” is. The Volokh Conspiracy » Timothy McVeigh Was No Libertarian: The Fallacy of Conflating Two Very Different Types of “Anti-Government” Movements
The Russian Federation has issued a decree abolishing special privileges for government officials.

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