Sentence examples for degrees of privilege from inspiring English sources

"You develop a fondness for people who have had varying degrees of privilege," he said, adding that he had sympathy and affection for those who were "prisoners of their trust funds," the tragic rich who never taste the stimulation of accomplishment.

In 48 states, American journalists enjoy differing degrees of privilege that protects them from having to out confidential sources and information.

Doctors were able to trade on this cultural perception for an unusual degree of privilege and influence.

The absence of drug convictions for Turner, who is white, speaks to a degree of privilege that the victim raised in her statement.

She was only a couple of years shy of 60 when she began to write, after a near-lifetime that began in a degree of privilege and descended into a maelstrom of penury, marriage to a shiftless alcoholic, the struggle to support her family and a series of erratic house moves.

The visit that brings hope to some blighted tranche of the inner city has become a thoroughly traditional bit of leadership business, and almost mandatory if, as in the case of the late Queen Mother, or Iain Duncan Smith or Tony Blair or David Cameron there is a degree of privilege to be got round.

I also have to recognize that my appearance entails a degree of privilege in the United States.

But racism does confer degrees of relative privilege in states where whiteness continues to be regarded as the norm.

As a white queer person of a certain degree of economic privilege, I think that my ability to pass as straight is a privilege that other folk I know don't have.

Although the retina does not enjoy the same degree of immune privilege as the anterior chamber, in the healthy state it is nonetheless 'immune-advantaged' compared with other tissues in the body.

Conversely, terms like "racism" and "sexism" have in their roots the socially determined distinguishing factor that determines the socially created and enforced hierarchical degrees of power and privilege that are accorded (race and sex in these examples).