How To Use Privileged 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
They will attend as many cocktail parties, skiing holidays and hunt meetings as it takes to convince us they're not a bunch of privileged freeloaders.
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?
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.
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.
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
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.
The other recurring problem is the avoidance of military service by privileged youth during peacetime and combat duty during wars.
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
I consider myself highly privileged to have this opportunity.
He is undertaking the walk in order to raise money for victims of the tsunami disaster and underprivileged people in the local community.
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.
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.
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'
The user group with an inherently greater potential for implementation is the more privileged section of the society.
That is what goes with being in such a privileged position. The Sun
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.
Ministers were as anxious as their predecessors to preserve Britain's privileged position in the Western alliance.
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
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.
N., the national agencies held veto power, giving them a privileged status befitting their clout and status.
Students from a privileged background have an advantage at university.
State monopolies or privileged private companies secure strategic resources and keep open the conduits that provide money to the metropole.
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.
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.
He has recently returned from a trip to America to help launch Camp Fiver, a recreational camp for underprivileged children in New York State.
Impeccably decked out in designer threads and carrying microscopic mobile phones, they had a fresh-faced, privileged look.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
But a hankering for privileged information was not all that drew us there. Christianity Today
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
In depressingly familiar style the president's family and cronies formed a privileged elite. Times, Sunday Times
This is a privileged position to be in. Times, Sunday Times
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
It was above all the smile of dramatic irony, of those who have privileged information.
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"
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.
In republishing Céline's work in virtual form, no one version of it would be privileged.
Cariaga's innovative language-oriented poetry challenges the assumption that avant-garde poetics is the privileged terrain of white heterosexual male poets.
In some, but not all, forms of legal process, witnesses and parties attending and returning from court are privileged from arrest.
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 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
I was privileged yesterday to be the guest of honour at the Victoria University graduation ceremony for commerce graduands.
For in societies greatly marked by class prerogatives, style itself tends to become a competitive implement, as a privileged group may cultivate style to advertise its privileges and perpetuate them.
While the Earth wheeled around its sun, so I was privileged to hear, that earth and its moon wheeled around each other.
Nizan occupied a privileged position in Sartre's life both intellectually and emotionally.
A privileged schoolboy, using his own ties to the Kittur underworld, sets off an explosive in a Jesuit-school classroom in protest against casteism. Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga: Book summary
If the comment amounts to a statement of fact then it must be proved to be true or privileged.
He's a New Economy technocrat, raised at the heart of government, with a privileged education.
All his life Nelson was profoundly aware of the drudgery of toil, whether on the furrow or the lower deck, and humanely responsive to the concerns of the least privileged.
I felt privileged to be there to witness the very last minutes of one of the longest managerial careers in modern football. Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years with Brian Clough
It is unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate wealth.
Mr Joyce has just returned from Basra where he was able to take dozens of helmets, tunics, leggings and boots to the under-privileged men.
Such groups are constructed as the bearers of privileged knowledge or agency, by virtue of their social location.
Can they reach point B, thereby preserving their privileged position as insiders?
Barber, the gentleman farmer and cheesemaker, is singularly privileged. Times, Sunday Times
The only way wherein authorial (privileged) intent can be kept is if the author is also the illustrator or artist, otherwise, there will always be a duel of visions. Archive 2004-12-01
It's not that his surmises are automatically wrong (they're backed up by art-historical knowledge and personal empathy), but that they sound affected and impossibly privileged.
In the main, not all minorities are beleaguered and not all non-minorities are privileged.
As an African American diarist in antebellum and post-bellum America, she was a privileged individual by birth and endowment.
The same goes for any bully: A racist, a misogynist, a homophobe, a transphobe, a disablist, a fat-hater, a xenophobe, a privileged jerk of any stripe who belligerently wields hir privilege like a weapon. Shakesville
As Page said, “We hired people like us”—brainy strivers from privileged backgrounds who aced the SAT, brought home good grades, and wrote the essays that got them into the best schools. In the Plex
We were privileged and delighted to receive Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall as official guests on Thursday 24 July.
Mr Pinheiro said last month after the generals humiliated him by bugging his privileged conversations that reconciliation talks in Burma are going nowhere.
I am very honoured and privileged to have been asked and I do respect her greatly.
Only the privileged will be able to get munted on aerosols and as usual, the lower classes get left behind. Fuel Prices Hit Teen Drug Users
We are very privileged to have Senator Dobbs with us this evening.
This entertaining fly-on-the-wall show uncovers some of the planet's most privileged. The Sun
And you know, there are people out there who think that horsey people are all privileged. Times, Sunday Times
There is hardware support for position independent code and secure operation though privileged modes that prevent user programs from corrupting the operating system kernel.
Denver Art Museum and The Anschutz Collection 'Long Jakes, "The Rocky Mountain Man"'(1844) Born in Philadelphia, and related through his mother to distinguished families in North Carolina and New York, Deas (pronounced "daze") was initially raised in privileged surroundings. Recalled From Obscurity
So much for occupation as the 'fetishized' plaything of privileged elites! Anarchist news dot org - Comments
The privileged royal family includes thousands of members, surrounded by tens of thousands of retainers and hangers-on.
Humans could no longer be allowed any such privileged, mystical feature as free will to distinguish them.
That is, there is no ‘final or fixed point or privileged, meaning-determining relationship with the extralinguistic world.’
Those scientists who did not come from the socially privileged classes had even more to gain by establishing reputations as men of humane learning.
In Delacroix's mind, too, disease, deformity, and physical frailty marked the privileged creator.
If the user is to be allowed to enter privileged exec mode during a telnet session, an enable password or enable secret must be set.
An occasion is privileged if the statement is made pursuant to a legal, social or moral duty incumbent upon the defendant.
Competition is amoral, ruthless and cruel - moral principles and ethical standards are compromised. And it is a civilized way of bullying the weak, the underprivileged and the poor. Dr T.P.Chia
It was a privileged but not always happy childhood. Times, Sunday Times
Doula is a Greek word meaning slave or servant and stems from ancient Greece where the doula was the top-notch home help privileged to help the lady of the house give birth.
Children from an underprivileged family background are statistically more likely to become involved in crime.
I was really privileged being in the last class of graduate students taught by my theory of international law guru.
Nor can it provide the public airing of evidence that is sorely needed here - particularly since this is a case in which a revered institution has used its privileged place to silence victims.
There are underprivileged individuals and groups in the First World, as well as in the Third and New Second Worlds.
Thus a privileged land-tenure was created -- bookland; the rules as to the succession of kinsmen were set at nought by concession of testamentary power and confirmations of grants and wills; special exemptions from the jurisdiction of the hundreds and special privileges as to levying fines were conferred. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
Under Objective One status, the county would have enjoyed a more privileged position when it came to netting financial bonuses such as EU grants.
It also gives the medical profession a privileged position in determining who is disabled, as the study and treatment of normal and subnormal human functioning is the specialty of that profession.
The letter warned that possible sanctions included being removed from privileged work parties. The Sun
Politics, aesthetics, literature were all preoccupations for these privileged and idealistic young people. Times, Sunday Times
She, who concedes that at this stage of her career she is in the privileged position of not needing to make records for the money, says she is unworried.
He had survived the infamous ordeal on the raft and had privileged information to impart. Times, Sunday Times
But its main pertinence to this discussion is the demand the lover puts on the maiden for her to give up everything of her privileged life to follow him in his outlaw life as he goes into hiding. Wordsworths Balladry: Real Men Wanted
His background, though privileged and multicultural, imbued him also with political radicalism. Times, Sunday Times
I feel privileged to be where I am. The Sun
Its successes have been very inconvenient to the powerful and privileged.
I am so thrilled and honored and grateful and humbled and privileged and intoxicated by this wonderful opportunity to ask you a brief question on this celebrated historic occasion.
There is often much grumbling, amid at least some of the privileged participants. Times, Sunday Times
Competition is amoral, ruthless and cruel - moral principles and ethical standards are compromised. And it is a civilized way of bullying the weak, the underprivileged and the poor. Dr T.P.Chia
The authorities told them they were privileged to witness the might of the Soviet military machine.
Academic, or theoretical, discourse is not privileged but is instead a form of accounting which uses abstraction to illuminate.
It was not disputed that the words were spoken on a privileged occasion, but the plaintiff alleged that the privilege was defeated by malice on the defendant's part.
I was privileged to lead the team.
The potboy at the corner, who is a privileged amateur, as possessing official knowledge of life and having to deal with drunken men occasionally, exchanges confidential communications with the policeman and has the appearance of an impregnable youth, unassailable by truncheons and unconfinable in station-houses. Bleak House
It also boasts the most cabin and boot space - of special interest to the privileged few with a chauffeur to take care of the driving. Times, Sunday Times
After the princes and their state had subordinated the church, sometimes in violent conflicts, it was allowed to keep its privileged and parasitic existence.
This means that they are not bound by the constraints of the data protection act or any other laws that protect medical or other privileged information.
There are certainly ominous signs that the wealthy and privileged are dashing for the lifeboats. Times, Sunday Times
MR. THOMPSONS Gentlemen, the Empire Club of Canada is again honoured by the presence of a Dominion Cabinet Minister; on this occasion we are privileged to have with us the Minister of National Defense for Air The Development of Air Power In Canada
Evolutionary biology enjoys a privileged position at the core of this belief system because it offers explanations about why and how humankind originated.
To spell out the point I was trying to make quite concretely with Samuel Johnson's words: there is no purely privileged or unprivileged person.
The privileged classes who commit crimes are spared death. Times, Sunday Times
You feel very small and very privileged, and there is nowhere else in the world you want to be. Times, Sunday Times
This, founded in the dissoluble union between a man and a woman, constitutes the privileged environment in which human life is welcomed and protected, from its beginning until its natural end. Archive 2008-01-01
Just as this ill-fated man appeared at the culminating point of his professional fortunes, he had the imprudence to proclaim himself not only an enthusiastic advocate of mesmerism as a curative process, but an ardent believer of the reality of somnambular clairvoyance as an invaluable gift of certain privileged organizations. A Strange Story — Complete
It is unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate wealth.
Students from a privileged background have an advantage at university.
Business people do not profit from their work until they create something that has commercial value, which often comes from exploiting privileged information.
Their dialogue is a fascinating exploration of the intersection of cultural concerns and writerly processes, giving readers a privileged glimpse into this increasingly rich and varied production.
The dwellers of Nchubula in Kopa west are privileged to have before them the virgin vastness of flat savannah land watered by the Munikashi river that pours into Bangweulu river.
Ministers were as anxious as their predecessors to preserve Britain's privileged position in the Western alliance.
We will soon see the re-emergence of class warfare as Britain becomes a nation for the rich and privileged. Times, Sunday Times
We are honoured and privileged to have been chosen, particularly as we are a small, family business.
Richardson plays a "handmaid" - essentially a breeder in a world where most women are sterile - hired out to a privileged couple (Faye Dunaway and Robert Duvall) to conceive their child. Bright Lights After Dark
Members of a disadvantaged group would merely exercise the option to join the privileged group.
It's not unthinkable that Britain's most under-privileged people might bristle at the sight of a titled toff practicing the art of noblesse oblige. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
However, editors and well-paid media pundits are well aware that social and political opposition to the neoconservative order in the US poses a direct threat to their own privileged existence in Britain.
Neither actor used "poetry voice," and both actors honored enjambment and privileged sense over rhythm. Love Is My Sin
The leaders of the party and its principal organizations now formed a new oligarchy of privileged citizens.
I wonder how that compares to atty-client privilege, like the classic case of turning over a truckload of documents in discovery, and inadvertently disclosing a privileged communication somewhere inthere? The Volokh Conspiracy » The Next iPhone — and the Criminal Law Angle
It is also important that any channel not intended to support administration of the queue manager have a low-privileged user ID in the MCAUSER attribute.
Belich's reply: ‘We are really concerned with any limits to access and the possibility that tertiary education could once again become only the realm of the privileged.’
I consider myself highly privileged to have this opportunity.
We have been privileged to get a tourist visa to visit that place thanks to him. Times, Sunday Times
That is, a system dominated by a privileged bureaucracy which puts its own interests before those of the masses and a political leadership which represents this bureaucracy.
It was at those times that I felt most privileged to be on the inside, leaning on every syllable and intonation of his voice.
These are the privileged individualists who have already snatched their slice of the American dream.
Criminals are increasingly using privileged user information in their attacks, which is hard to trace. Computing
The conservative opposition was composed of the privileged orders and institutions whose position had been challenged by liberal legislation.
For sometime, I felt privileged but then again, my visits to Mexico kind of tapered and then they raised the price to $1440.00 annually for 1400 anytime minutes per month, which I hardly use anymore. Magic Jack
Manchester United's ambition is to assume greatness by winning several times a competition that Rangers are just privileged to be part of.
The letter warned that possible sanctions included being removed from privileged work parties. The Sun
Both memoirs aimed for a 'feel-good' reaction rather than belabouring the comedians' poor and unprivileged backgrounds. Times, Sunday Times
You don't have to follow the rules of social decorum or the niceties of society because you are privileged.
Certainly, the sociological landscape is familiar - a nation in which an educated, privileged elite suppresses a servile, but restless underclass, giving rise to a growing insurrection.
She is a fascinating, beguiling woman who I feel very privileged to have met in the flesh.
Only the cream of society were privileged enough to lose their fortunes at his tables, and they invariably did the decent thing and honoured their debts. Times, Sunday Times
The letter warned that possible sanctions included being removed from privileged work parties. The Sun
In these passages, films and contemporary art-works become privileged referents for honing in on the qualities of contemporary affective pathologies and especially on what might be called a generalised culture of suicidal violence. Mute magazine - Culture and politics after the net - CULTURE AND POLITICS AFTER THE NET
‘You're so privileged to grow up in this area with all the walking trails, coastal heathlands and rainforests - while you're at school I challenge you to get to know all of your national parks,’ he said to the assembly.
Matt and Phred's is a perfect place for her to play with low lights and swanky red curtains behind the stage, it's a classy affair for whoever is privileged to wonder in tonight.
The Corinthians are not in the privileged position of judges between theological niceties.
It aims to sensitise privileged schoolchildren to underprivileged ones.
Boehner and Pelosi wrote that while they are "mindful of the special place their unique experience holds in the memories of the young Americans privileged to serve as pages over the years, our decision to close the program reflects two current realities: Changes in technology have obviated the need for most Page services and the program's high costs are difficult to justify, especially in light of diminished benefits to the House. House to end page program after nearly 200 years
If New Zealand is to develop as a fully independent country we must give all our people equal access to justice, and not just a privileged few.
They are only interested in preserving the power of the privileged.
Last week Charlie's opponent was Barroso himself who took the Irishman to task for voicing his opinion that the Commission wants to do away with Ireland's privileged corporation tax system.
Certainly, most of the women within this book have been privileged in some way. The Golden Thread - Asian experiences of post-Raj Britain
In this instance, Richards's doctorship was of the double utility of delivering us from the threatened pint-glasses, and of causing us to be considered as privileged guests -- no small advantage in a backwoods 'tavern, occupied as the headquarters of an electioneering party. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844
Prof. Mahmood rightly observes that the commission can either be a lapdog of the government of the day or the watchdog of the rights of the underprivileged.
The loftiness, the breeze, the view, the sense of privileged isolation - I spent many hours up there, with friends or alone.
Children from an underprivileged family background are statistically more likely to become involved in crime.
The foremost vision of the Trust is to provide affordable Nursing Education to the needy students from poor and under privileged families.
Privileged kids are far more relaxed and confident in huge, posh colleges.
As an ambassador, she enjoys a very privileged status.
Competition is amoral, ruthless and cruel - moral principles and ethical standards are compromised. And it is a civilized way of bullying the weak, the underprivileged and the poor. Dr T.P.Chia
The setting of equality as the ideal objective, though a distant one, towards which our legislation should be directed and towards which we should strive, is in the best interest not only of the weak, the aged and the underprivileged, but it is in the interest of a strong and dynamic Canadian nation. Can Canada Survive The Soviet Challenge
She was viewed as a formidable adversary and a staunch defender of the underprivileged. Times, Sunday Times
I always feel privileged to honor someone in this manner, and I look forward to doing so again next year.
He was born in Guadeloupe and wrote in French, but before him, there was nothing as fresh and clear in feeling as those poems of his childhood, that of a privileged white child on an Antillean plantation, Pour Feter une Enfance, Eloges, and later Images a Crusoe. Derek Walcott - Nobel Lecture
Equal to that, I am privileged to belong to what I call the brotherhood of veterans," he said. El Dorado Times Homepage RSS
I myself, have been very privileged to have been a participant in this process of institution building.
Both were English-born sons of a French immigrant father or grandfather, and both had a privileged education and were articled to an established civil engineer.
City officials granted the unnamed Bush daughter privileged status, carting her out of the danger zone, despite the quarantine in effect.
In the annals of video game history, Space Invaders occupies a privileged position - the first to rise from the arcade underworld to the mainstream territory of pizza parlors and ice-cream shops.
Your position in society - Were you from a privileged or underprivileged background? 50 Ways to Become a Self-Confident Woman
For most cineastes, Paris, Texas has earned a privileged place as one of the most preeminent American films of the 1980s.

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