Over the course of four seasons, "Downton Abbey" has tried to make a strong case in favor of England's landed aristocracy, but Robert's stubbornness, his limited vision and his exceptionally poor judgment are not exactly a positive advertisement for inherited positions and unearned wealth.
He mostly got in the race because, then as now, both of the main candidates, despite their inherited positions and elaborate claims, seemed vulnerable, if not implausible.
As indicated above, masks representing potentially harmful spirits were often used to keep a required balance of power or a traditional relationship of inherited positions within a culture.
These are often used to keep a required balance of power or a traditional social and political relationship of inherited positions within a culture.
Still, the legislation made major changes in a system where teachers had traditionally bought, sold or inherited positions — a practice that many say has led to the hiring of underqualified teachers.
William owed everything to his inherited position.
And Harry sits there taking a picture, so compassionate from his life of inherited position and wealth.
For those groups that engaged in centralized forms of organization, the role of chief, or tribelet leader, was generally an inherited position.
These days, making theatre under the patronage of royalty may not mean making any physical compromises in the work you're producing, but it represents a tacit concession to their inherited position of authority.
To have won it, not because she inherited position as the daughter of a great man, or the widow of an important man, but by dint of her own striving.
