Sentence examples for a small privilege from inspiring English sources

To prevent a single notorious criminal from exhibiting artwork, Mr. Goord is harshly depriving the state's other 67,000 inmates, many of whom are in prison for nonviolent offenses, of a small privilege that gives them a sense of self-esteem.

"People are outraged if an inmate has a TV or if any small privileges.

After all, it isn't every day that a pastor and local church are given the opportunity and potential influence of hosting a major Presidential forum within the confines of their faith community; no small privilege.

The Governor of Namur, having promised the archduke Albert (about 1600) a company of soldiers that should neither ride nor walk, sent a detachment on stilts, which so pleased the Archduke that he conferred upon the city perpetual exemption from the beer tax no small privilege.

Some deals are inexpensive and buy relatively small privileges.

Points can then be exchanged for small privileges.

Coolidge and others point out that this is as true for black, working-class, and gay film-makers – in fact, ­anyone outside a small ­circle of privilege.

In the end, Harrow came across as exactly what it is: a small pocket of privilege that is comfortably riding out one of the deepest economic downturns of the past 100 years.

Viewers paid a small admission for the privilege of seeing the painting unfurled.

He wasn't alone, paying more to get less and standing in a small line for the privilege of doing so.

Both the bank that issues the card and the one that handles the retailer's account charge them a small fee for the privilege, as does the card network an arrangement often criticised as opaque and anti-competitive.