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Mr. Assad's government has long given privilege to members of his Alawite minority and is backed by the region's Shiites, including Iran and the Lebanese group Hezbollah.

After a few months and for good behaviour I was given "privileges" to dig the staff gardens unsupervised.

I think cultural boycotts are a catastrophe;  first, they give privilege to ignorance.

He gave privileges to companies that established colonies in the Americas, Africa, and the West Indies.

Since bilateral aviation deals give privileges to the national flag-carrier, they discriminate against other European airlines.

They were miffed that Euronext, which is run by a Frenchman and based in Paris, was giving privileges to French clients.

This would be less of a problem if the local hospitals were not all terrified of giving privileges to anybody who performs abortions.

Car-rental and credit-card companies already give privileges to customers with good records and the willingness to share confidential information.

That, as his speech to the UN General Assembly showed last month, has moved from Israel-bashing to broader, rabble-rousing third-worldism, and to overt hostility to a UN system that gives privileges to the council's permanent members.Iran's ruling clerics are tactically canny.

Among the princes of Habsburg-Lorraine who succeeded the Medicis, the last, Leopold II (1747 92), is of particular importance; he enlarged the city, gave privileges to foreign merchants, and had the great curved breakwater built to protect the port from the open sea.

Racism is a system of oppression structured to give privileges to light skinned people like me at the expense of people of color.