Sentence examples for exercise a privilege from inspiring English sources
Though heartsick about the Sept. 11 attacks and frustrated that their mayor cannot run now for re-election, it seemed likely that at least some of them would resolve to exercise a privilege unknown in countries that nurture terrorists, and vote to nominate candidates to succeed the man who has led the the city valiantly in a tragic time.
I recognize that many who looked like me never had the opportunity to cast a ballot, and many more had to fight through poll taxes, literacy tests, and other egregious forms of intimidation to exercise a privilege owed to them as citizens of the United States.
In those cases, the tax imposed was also a license tax 'a flat tax imposed on the exercise of a privilege granted by the Bill of Rights' and therefore an unconstitutional exaction.
For, to repeat, 'the power to tax the exercise of a privilege is the power to control or suppress its enjoyment.' Murdock v. Pennsylvania, supra, 319 U.S. page 112, 63 S.Ct.
In Murdock, for instance, we emphasized that the tax at issue was "a license taxa flat tax imposed on the exercise of a privilege granted by the Bill of Rights," 319 U.S., at 113, 63 S.Ct., at 875, and cautioned that "we do not mean to say that religious groups and the press are free from all financial burdens of government...
Meanwhile, a couple of idiot stoners huddle in a wheely bin as arrogant sloanes with posh floppy hair exercise an ancient privilege by peeing on them.
It is a penalty imposed by courts for exercising a constitutional privilege.
Consider that the lending enterprise known as My Rich Uncle declared bankruptcy in 2009, exercising a legal privilege of getting out from under its obligations that most student debtors are denied.
The argument that an individual who received Form W-2 wages or other compensation is not subject to federal income tax because the individual has "neither requested, obtained, nor exercised any privilege from an agency of government" was ruled frivolous by the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Sullivan v. United States and again in Kelly v. United States.
