Sentence examples for bastions of privilege from inspiring English sources

Critics of grammar schools claim they are "bastions of privilege".

Taking on so many bastions of privilege at once will be risky.

So they are not bastions of privilege in incredibly haute bourgeois areas.

And the way Frederick Engels has thrived for a small, northern stable shows that his handlers need only equality of opportunity to storm the Turf's bastions of privilege.

Such affirmative action, he said, is necessary if the top colleges are to be "engines of opportunity" rather than "bastions of privilege".

The result is a steady erosion of public admiration for these formerly much-esteemed institutions.This points to a third criticism: that universities are becoming bastions of privilege rather than instruments of social mobility.

In Britain, polo's reputation as a bastion of privilege is not without foundation.

He had always said he would have nothing to do with that "bastion of privilege", the House of Lords.

Parliament is a "bastion of privilege" where "legislation is practically designed in a sea of booze", an SNP MP has said.

He described the concentration of Old Etonians as "ridiculous", adding that such a bastion of privilege does not exist in any other rich country.

And so, at around 16, he followed the goatee to Bard College, a bastion of privilege and pot-smoking on the bank of the Hudson River in upstate New York.