Sentence examples for first privilege from inspiring English sources

This might seem absurd at first — privilege is privilege, after all — but the emotional depth of the band's work says something about the size of those disappointments.

Here, beside this lake, Murdoch and his executives and senior journalists enjoy the first privilege of power: that they are given for free the kind of access for which unscrupulous lobbyists will pay fat packets of cash.

In a movie that spends a great deal of time talking about aliens, hearing aliens, but never actually displaying an alien, it's Merrill Hess played by Joaquin Phoenix who gets the first privilege.

Schumer speaks first, his privilege as the senior senator.

The first calls "Privilege" "a film by Yvonne Rainer and others".

Cooper and Miller, citing a common-law and, they argued, First Amendment privilege of confidentiality, declined to name their sources.

"What the notes make really clear is that he didn't believe there is a First Amendment privilege," Mr. Eliason said.

"It's a brave new world when the district attorney's office sides with a convicted member of organized crime against union workers exercising their First Amendment privilege," said Mr. James's lawyer, J. Bruce Maffeo, a former federal prosecutor.

"There is no legitimate reason, at least in the context of jury selection proceedings, to give one who asserts a First Amendment privilege greater rights to insist on public proceedings than the accused has," the opinion said.

It might have started out as a rebuke to first world privilege, but it has now become so naturalised that it doesn't really encourage any sort of empathetic engagement with third world issues.

Should the court override the station's First Amendment privilege here, the chilling impact on newsgathering cannot be overstated, much as The Times intends to argue in an amicus brief.