Sentence examples for exert privilege from inspiring English sources

There is no place we can go where Jesus is not already present and active. . 2. Since Jesus is active everywhere, the first responsibility of mission among any culture is not to teach, speak or exert privilege but to discover what Jesus is already doing in that culture.

Mr. Bush's aides said they simply believed that the two major party's nominees should have some say over the shape of the debates and were trying to exert that privilege.

But now it looks like yet another mundane activity has been added to the already depressingly long list of reasons scared white people may exert their privilege by alerting law enforcement: babysitting while black.

In similar disputes during the Bush and Clinton administrations, such requests by Congress were rejected by the Justice Department after the president exerted executive privilege. 

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When Nixon attempted to sanitize his threatened administration by moving the impeccable Elliot Richardson into the discredited Richard Kleindienst's attorney general post, Kennedy exerted senatorial privilege to hamstring the appointment until Richardson agreed to install Kennedy ally and ex JFK Solicitor-General Archibald Cox as a special prosecutor to tear into the unfolding Watergate scandal.

John Whittingdale, head of the culture committee, forced Mr Murdoch to answer its summons by threatening to exert an obscure parliamentary privilege.

In many instances I have seen this done by men who wished to exert their intellect or privilege (a phenomenon brilliantly captured in Rebecca Solnit's essay Men Explain Things to Me or characterised in David Cameron's famous "Calm down, dear" moment).

For me, this can mean seeing Americans not as the saviors of the world as the American movie industry – a prominent source for cultural perceptions of Americans – inevitably portrays, but as people who collectively exert incredible power and privilege in other parts of the world.

Most legislative bodies confer some special privileges on the majority party, but few take it to such as an extreme as New York's Legislature, where the Democrats who dominate the Assembly and the Republicans who rule the Senate exert minute control over each chamber's perks, privileges and patronage.

Instead, the same root issues, the struggle between the oppressed and the oppressor, will be played out and discussed in terms of privilege and how one's privilege, which is not static, is exerted over others.

Many of us understand Christian proselytizing as resting upon a foundation of Christian privilege in the United States, a privilege that grants unearned benefits, which exerts a degree of power and control not granted to members of non-Christian denominations and non-believers.