Abu Tahsin, a Shiite from northern Baghdad, said that when his extended family had built a Shiite mosque, they did not register it with the religious authorities, even though it would have brought privileges, because they did not want to become entangled with any of the main religious Shiite groups that control Baghdad.
In a system where power brings privilege, and privilege can literally mean getting away with murder, it is not just institutions that may need to change but a whole frame of mind.
You're teaching your kids to see the world through the eyes of objective reality, the way society really is. 2. Wealth brings privilege.
That would bring privileges to shop at military commissaries, as well as access to gymnasiums, movie theaters and various family support programs on bases and posts.
Her father's position brought them privilege — a nice apartment in the center of Bucharest, the summer camp.
In 1955, Brennan spoke before the Monmouth Rotary Club, in New Jersey, on the subject of the Fifth Amendment, and said, "Frankness with ourselves must compel the acknowledgment that our resentment toward those who invoked its protection led us into a toleration of some of the very abuses which brought the privilege into being so many centuries ago.
Then came Viv Richards' 232 at Trent Bridge the following year, a full-scale rehearsal of the greatness to come I saw those as a paying punter, but writing for the International Herald Tribune brought fresh privileges.
Olin Kutac, 50, the manically jovial, pot-bellied prime minister of the kingdom, whose day job is running a mountaintop restaurant, said being premier of the concocted country had brought certain privileges.
This year, prices ranged from $2,500 to sponsor refreshments at the riders' tent and the media tent, to an advertised maximum of $175,000, which brought naming privileges for companies like Prudential.
It brings great privilege, great power and potential to do many things.
