Sentence examples for land of privilege from inspiring English sources

As I look around at young men and women, on cell phones, giggling, acting as if nothing has happened or touched them, I wonder, "Has it touched them?" So now, are we going to step back and reassess why we are here on this earth, in this free land of privilege and grace?

It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly..

It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly...

His nemesis, Metro Man (Brad Pitt), is dispatched at the same time, but while his pod lands into a home of privilege, Megamind's lands in a prison.

Those collective aspirations and core values have been consistently served up to a war-mongering, planet-poisoning transnational greed machine in exchange for gerrymandered power; payoffs to fund farcical campaigns in elections that resemble auctions; and revolving doors into the promised land of obscene wealth and privilege.

Andy Wightman is author of The Poor Had No Lawyers: Who Owns Scotland (and How They Got It), which has become the primer for those who had always felt something was never quite right about such a concentration of land and unearned privilege in the hands of so few.

Ever since, local residents have squabbled and sued over the existence of private homes on public land and the perception of a pocket of privilege.

The second case involved the cutting and sale of timber by a homesteader and they were considered a use of the land, his privileges with respect to standing timber being analogous to those of a tenant for life; the third case was of like kind, and the other two cases were cited.

The Queen will hang on to her palaces, diamond-encrusted tiaras, royal carriages, and footmen, not to mention billions in assets, vast tracts of prime land, and royal privilege.

We invest countless hours giving our data to networks like MySpace, essentially sharecropping on their land for the privilege of being able to connect to our friends.

This was hardly a case of privilege rewarding privilege.