Sentence examples for highly privileged backgrounds from inspiring English sources

Such commentators are disproportionately drawn from highly privileged backgrounds and their work is read often only by the most politically engaged.

Dr Lee Elliot Major, director of research for the Sutton trust, said many of the UK's future leading academics were likely to come from highly privileged backgrounds unless state schools improved their performance in strategically important subjects.

Gaddafi was in a position to pay experts to help him and this led Lord Woolf to urge universities to make sure students from "highly privileged backgrounds who have a wealth of resources" don not gain an unfair advantage.

The irony is that the populist Johnson comes from a highly privileged background.

Kennedy was also the pampered child of an extremely privileged background.

There's Wente's classist and sexist assertion that "talented, highly educated women from privileged backgrounds (Lena Dunham also comes to mind) are celebrated as feminists and behave like trailer trash".

Wilde, of course, had been a highly privileged man himself, privileged in background, education, intelligence and talent.

These days, though, more sophisticated markets demand computer whizzes and the highly educated many of whom come from privileged backgrounds.

LONDON — Following the recent wave of arrests in England and even Australia, everyone seemed surprised that most of the terrorist suspects were highly educated, some apparently from middle-class or privileged backgrounds.

Foundations are highly privileged institutions and must be held to high standards because of that privilege.

Politicians do tend to hail from privileged backgrounds.