Sentence examples for institutional privilege from inspiring English sources

The generation of Russian artists, designers, poets, and thinkers who caught fire just before the First World War, rose to institutional privilege under the 1917 Revolution, and then were crushed is characterized by grandiosity and grandeur — and tragedy, in abundance.

This is why America was designed with checks on the exercise of institutional privilege.

Clooney's nightmare scenario ignores one important question, that of institutional privilege: While racism is an oppressors' power play that always moves from the top down, Satanism critiques a target immeasurably more powerful than itself.

"But at the same time, if you're not able to vocalize that to the people with privilege, who can help change that world, who have the institutional privilege to create change, then there's no way to see change".

As a result, the military's political influence diminished moderately, but its senior officers continued to guard its institutional privileges.

There were two areas, however, in which the nobility enjoyed important institutional privileges: the upper ranks of the army and the clergy were, in the main, aristocratic preserves and had become more so in the 1780s.

That obstruction included calculated delays through the use of long-established Senate institutional privileges, including the notorious "blue slip" method favored by Senator Jesse Helms, in which senators can block a judicial nominee from their state.

Typical university rape responses privilege institutional over student interests in ways that empower predators and disempower survivors.

While coincidental, the two events underscored what some critics of the United Nations have called an institutional culture of privilege and exceptionalism in an organization that basically regulates itself and is not necessarily answerable to any higher judicial authority.

The inability, or reluctance, to begin with people rather than processes and the institutional protection of privilege, is part of what has led to the great decline of trust in Britain today.

Tyrone finds refuge in black studies classes, where he learns about theories such as "critical race theory" and terms such as "institutional racism," "white privilege" and "hegemony".