Sentence examples for Privileged origins from inspiring English sources

"Ed Balls and I both have one thing in common, I think, and that is that we both went to private, independent schools," he said, referring to Labour's local candidate, who attended the private Nottingham High School and Oxford and has been prominent among Labour leaders disparaging Mr. Cameron for his privileged origins.

Seabrook was a self-proclaimed 'negrophile' – a man who embraced 'primitivism' as an ecstatic escape from his privileged, white Southern origins.

He begins with Hamilton's birth on Nevis in the British West Indies to a woman who was not married to his father, and Burr's more privileged and socially acceptable origins in a family of religious leaders and college presidents.

For Derrida, decentering is "the stated abandonment of all reference to a center, to a subject, to a privileged reference, to an origin".

Judge Ellis ordered the Justice Department to investigate their origins, and ruled the e-mails privileged.

Alfred Russel Wallace's humble origins contrast sharply with Charles Darwin's privileged background.

He is a walking melting pot, albeit of a somewhat privileged kind, a Catholic of French, Lebanese and Mexican origins.

Solo piano, as a mode of performance, holds a privileged place in jazz, with a history predating the origins of the genre.

If we're to be truly conscious consumers, we need to demand that our food is sourced fairly from its origins right up to the moment it reaches our privileged tables.

To our surprise the film has inspired an impassioned debate about a massive problem in France: socio-economic inequality between the privileged bourgeoisie and its marginalized neighbors, most of them having immigrant origins.

Again, in an Aristotelian reading so fundamental for the capabilities approach towards poverty, human beings are in a privileged position to shape the world by initiating actions – the origin of action in its efficient cause is choice [9].