Sentence examples for claim privilege from inspiring English sources

From 1547, if a peer or peeress was convicted of a crime, except treason or murder, he or she could claim "privilege of peerage" to escape punishment if it was their first offence.

Will says that Obama has the right to claim privilege and that Issa has the right to be mad about it, and there is "a tension" here that goes all the way back to George Washington and the Battle of the Wabash, for some reason.

She was right: the decision is opening the door for the religiously observant to claim privileges that are not available to anyone else.

On Wednesday morning, Deputy Attorney General James Cole said in a letter to Mr. Issa that the president was claiming privilege over the documents because their disclosure would chill the candor of future internal deliberations.

The scope of the claimed privilege includes the character, causes, and consequences of the social inequalities that define the groups in question.

The plurality opinion of Justices Alito, Roberts and Kennedy reiterated two exceptions to this principle: 1) that a criminal defendant does not need to take the stand at trial in order to explicitly claim this privilege; and 2) that failure to claim this privilege must be excused when that failure was due to government coercion.

The book "Claim of Privilege," by Barry Siegel, focuses on that case, which gave birth to the state secrets privilege, which allows the government to shut down litigation simply by invoking national security.

Colvin has publicly acknowledged the claim of privilege.

He is objecting to anyone other than himself making the initial claim of privilege".

To assert that antisemitism is unlike other racisms is not to claim a privilege for it.

"Then you have merchandise venders who hire veterans just to be there so they can claim veteran privilege.