Sentence examples for existing privilege from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, Co-operative bank has just reduced its loan rates, which now start at 5.4% for existing Privilege and Privilege Premier current account holders, 5.5% for standard current account and Current Account Plus customers and Co-operative members, and 5.6% for everyone else.

Results also suggest that the new policy helped reduce noncompliance with medication and existing privilege levels among patients, at least as measured in the month prior to an incident of absconding.

Mr. Freeh is expected to defend the decision, saying in his prepared testimony that he "needed to implement a process to produce as quickly as we could documents requested as part of the investigations, but also in a manner that did not unnecessarily result in a broad waiver of any existing privilege".

There was a group letter in The New York Review of Books which insisted that the concept of sociobiology provided "a genetic justification of the status quo and of existing privileges for certain groups according to class, race, or sex".

Not really, because clearly there are instances where protection of existing privileges is considered more important than any other principle - including those of sport, fairness and equality.

Indeed, radical free market makeovers are likely to fare no better than radical socialistic ones, given that powerful constituencies AMA-style doconstituencies AMA-stylee patient groups andoctorsancartelsopolies–will do everything in their power to keep their existing privileges.

Such voices are largely silenced by the extremists' advocacy of policies that "would transform our government from a very modestly compassionate instrument into a machine dedicated to expanding existing privileges while doing as little as possible for the marginalized and the aspiring".

To show this, he claims that symbolic recognition of minorities can be done in an even-handed fashion, without removing existing privileges for the majority, and that instead of removing existing religious instruction for the majority religion, we should offer religious instruction for religious minorities as well.2.2

The simple terms that Iturbide proposed became the basis of the Plan of Iguala: the independence of New Spain (now to be called the Mexican Empire) with Ferdinand VII or another Bourbon as emperor; the retention of the Catholic Church as the official state religion and the protection of its existing privileges; and the equality of all New Spaniards, whether immigrants or native-born.

The existing three other privilege levels will be kept but a national standardised list of activities and items will be issued for governors to choose what is appropriate.

Rather than celebrating a "common ground of talents," we tend to inflate "small differences in degree into large differences in kind" and so legitimate existing systems of privilege.