Sentence examples for a special standing from inspiring English sources

But faculty members deserve a special standing in how a university is run, she said.

Those Christians are seen by both sides as having having a special standing internationally.

The Red Cross has a special standing among the nation's disaster-relief charities.

Banking, because it oils the crucial wheels of commerce, has a special standing in our world.

The words cut, but they came from an insider, a family member whose personal loss gave him a special standing, even among people who vehemently disagreed with him.

It's an approach that has won little chart success but has earned Sandman a special standing in the world of independent hip-hop.

The Pope has come to York – it's Pope John Paul II in his Popemobile, which is one of those big papal cars with a special standing-up bit so he can wave at his devoted followers.

But formally, the United Nations still recognizes Mr. Rabbani as president, though officials said that would not give him any special standing in a future administration.

You don't have to have any special standing".

But lawyers for the city and for a management company that runs the 150-year-old building now on the Park Place site countered that the landmarks commission had followed normal procedures and asserted that Mr. Brown, who does not live near ground zero, lacked any special standing to question the decision.

Zo? 22-year-old sister, Mahaliyah Ayla Oppenheim, wrote that she had been granted a kind of special standing by activists at the University of California, Berkeley, after she returned to school from a 2009 visit to the West Bank.