Historically, those who have deliberately flung themselves downwards, as London might have put it, have tended to come from middle-class backgrounds and been almost exclusively male – a privileged position from which to explore the abyss, before rising again into comfort and security.
Such a religion, always respectable and conservative, forms alliances with fascist and capitalist cliques, thus gaining a privileged position from which to persecute liberalism in all its forms.
"It appears to these regions that the Catalans are claiming a privileged position". Politicians from the conservative opposition make a similar point in arguing that unless the Catalan proposal is met by an unqualified rejection from the central government, it could open the way to the balkanization of Spain.
A second potential clue is that BC axons are largely confined to the stratum pyramidale (Glickfeld and Scanziani, 2006; Foldy et al., 2007), thus, PV cells whose cell bodies and proximal dendrites are located outside the PC layer will be in a privileged position to escape inhibition from BCs.
I am not doing it from a privileged position I have as a writer.
I am aware that my preference for retaining the current format in the County Championship is an opinion that comes from a privileged position.
"I'm in a privileged position," she said by telephone from Hawaii, where she lives part of the year; she also has a home in upstate New York.
To the extent we can say that the regulators bargain with the firm, its creditors, and potential acquirers, they do so from a privileged position.
But roughly speaking, it is a way of telling a person who is making a political point that they should remember they are speaking from a privileged position, because they are, for example, white, male, heterosexual, able-bodied or wealthy.
Instead it consists entirely of behavior observed from a privileged position, as was "The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick". We see Jonathan not as he is transformed into someone other, but as he strips down to his essential being.
Thus, Hume's "science of man", or "true philosophy", offers to evaluate the claims of natural philosophy from a privileged position.
