Sentence examples for ancestral privilege from inspiring English sources

Somehow this hasn't happened, and the mystique that surrounds ancestral privilege seems as potent as ever – made all the stronger by its ability to gather up distinctly un-aristocratic constituencies in its trail.

Between them were the potato-headed men with their scabbed, port-stained faces and their leathery wives, draped generously in tan cloth and ancestral privilege.

With scant interest in democracy, their concerns centered more on the protection of their ancestral privileges.

You see, there exists an informal class of people known as the Boston Brahmins who hold no special rights or ancestral privileges but who nonetheless apparently run Boston, Harvard, and probably the whole world, and Colson was never invited to play their WASPy reindeer games, such as, I suppose, croquet.

He may well have been influenced by his mother in this regard, as Matilda also had a strong sense of ancestral rights and privileges.

A contentious blend of legal claims, racial privilege and ancestral attachments is threatening to erupt in this fertile coastal region of South Africa.

On the northwest coast of North America, the right to perform ancestral songs and dances is an inherited privilege, although the owner of a song can give it away.

And soon enough we were in Linz and Salzburg, where our journey grew more complicated again, as we maneuvered sharp emotional shifts from the comforts of tourist privilege to the sorrows of ancestral trauma.

In turn, since the gift of land went back to the royal initiative, the king asked the temple for privileges as well, such as the establishment of an ancestral shrine in the temple precincts.

The privileges of the curule aediles included a fringed toga, a curule chair, and the right to ancestral masks privileges perhaps extended to the plebeian aediles after 100 bc.

Identifying Ancestral Photos Q.