Sentence examples for increasingly privileged from inspiring English sources

New figures presented by Lord Turner on April 4th show that corporate retrenchment continues apace (see chart above), while public-sector workers inhabit an increasingly privileged pension world.

One might expect that wealthy people, who have benefited disproportionately from rising inequality, would eventually become satisfied with their increasingly privileged positions.

"The Self-Destruction of the 1 Percent," by Chrystia Freeland (Sunday Review, Oct. 14), draws a parallel between the rulers of the Venetian Republic and the increasingly privileged 1 percent in the United States.

Cambridge, Bristol, Exeter, Durham and University College London are among 23 institutions that admit making insufficient progress in widening their mix of applicants in 2009-10 – leading to accusations that the intake of the most selective universities is "increasingly privileged".

The Confucius family compound is impressive in a different way, one of those places characterised by a receding series of increasingly privileged and private spaces in the Chinese manner.

The unavoidable truth is that, by and large, the increasingly privileged and entitled products of an elite private education have – almost inevitably – only a limited and partial understanding of, and empathy with, the realities of everyday life as lived by most people.

Like a fleet of airborne limousines, the helicopters are increasingly used by privileged Paulistanos to commute, attend meetings, even run errands and go to church.

The move towards a historically based classicism was validated – in the composer's mind at least – by a new interest in an expanded form of tonality, with pieces increasingly focused on privileged notes or modes or motifs, and sometimes all of these at once.

[End Page 1170] The change has, according to Skocpol, diminished democracy most obviously by restricting public power more than ever to a professional/business elite and producing policies that increasingly favor the privileged.

That the opportunity to do so is increasingly restricted to a privileged few is a state of affairs that should concern us rather more than it would the imperialist, misogynist, slave-owning elites of ancient Greece and Rome.

And this new model will surely exacerbate something I deplore about photojournalism: it is increasingly a community of privileged white people.