Sentence examples for hereditary privilege from inspiring English sources

"We're opposed to celebrating hereditary privilege and power.

He said: "We're opposed to celebrating hereditary privilege and power.

It's a national political institution that damages our political culture by celebrating hereditary privilege.

"It goes with the whole system of hereditary privilege and rank, which should be swept away.

This might seem odd for a country that was born in a revolt against hereditary privilege.

Access to the professions is considered almost a hereditary privilege here.

He had to reduce the hereditary privileges the barons had carved out for themselves.

During this period, an increasingly powerful bourgeoisie began "contesting many of the hereditary privileges of the aristocracy" and arrogating to itself the nobility's onetime "monopoly over style, beauty, fashion, luxury and even fame".

"Mauritania is a slavery economy and relies on a whole sector of society working for free or being financially exploited, and the hereditary privileges that the ruling classes still enjoy relies on the population accepting this as the natural and divinely ordained order of things.

His first example is a law that would provide hereditary privileges to members of a certain class of subjects.

710), convinced her husband to staff government offices with his sister and her daughters, and in 709 requested that he grant women the right to bequeath hereditary privileges to their sons (which before was a male right only).