Sentence examples for financial privilege from inspiring English sources

I mean, having that kind of financial privilege goes a long way, but you don't even have to have money for it.

Ministers had argued the move would cost £6m and threatened to invoke "financial privilege", which gives the Commons supremacy over issues of public money.

We are seeing a phenomenon in which the old are essentially eating the young, with the baby boomers having a disproportionate amount of financial privilege.

Jackson aggressively challenged white financial privilege, redistributing the wealth through that shrine to Atlanta's New South supremacy, the Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport.

And any government defeat in the Lords is likely to be reversed swiftly by the Commons (sometimes under the cover of "financial privilege").

By convention, the Lords does not dispute financial bills, so now the government will dress up any contentious motions as falling under "financial privilege".

Mr Aznar cannot be seen to do worse.Spain leads the efforts to protect the financial privileges of the current recipients of regional aid, but it is not alone.

These were fine assets for a city with ambitions to become the cultural hub of Central Europe, but they proved weighty burdens when the city lost the financial privileges of being the cold war capital.

Insiders say there is a growing groundswell of support among politicians and businessmen for trying to force the powerful companies, which enjoy financial privileges such as special, low-interest bank loans, to privatize, or just to contribute more to public coffers, something that will be fiercely resisted by the powerful bloc.

His list contained demands for reforms in the status of the clergy as well as for a constitution that would provide a representative government guaranteeing equality for all citizens, especially fiscal equality, thus abolishing those financial privileges that he had defended four years earlier.

Egypt has precious few economic advantages, and with a military interim government that is uninterested in renouncing its financial privileges or in reforming an economic system that made many general officers rich, Egypt is facing a summer and autumn of diminished tourism revenue — which has been one of its primary sources of foreign currency.