Industrial and commercial undertakings were managed in part directly by the state but largely through privileged corporations or private persons.
Newspaper editors and readers, judges, NGO activists and academics are also drawn largely from privileged backgrounds, and care little.Given the feeble state machinery and the ingrained prejudice, is there any way out?
The authors also write that the Indian news media, especially the mainstream English-language publications whose consumers are largely the privileged and the fortunate, is not as interested as it should be in the nation's bewildering social issues.
It was about the racial issues smoldering on our own privileged, largely white campus, a subject some of the speakers passionately addressed.
For all that, poor Iranians are receptive to complaints that Iran's oil-fuelled foreign-exchange revenues, which may exceed $46 billion in the year to March 2006, are going largely to a privileged minority.Ominous parallels have been drawn with an earlier period of oil riches, high inflation and social rumbles: shortly before the revolution of 1979.
But since it's still largely full of privileged white males – about 25% of its membership is female, though the situation isn't any worse, these days, than in the Commons – isn't it also, sometimes, a difficult place to be?
Cameron, who knows he has been defined largely by his privileged background, said he recognised that the reality that someone's salary depended on what their father's was was more prevalent in the UK than in any other country in the developed world.
She became interested in "impact investing" after realising that many of today's tech unicorns were being built largely for a privileged, developed society rather than the world as a whole.
But while sharing a gallery and studio space with your best friends is dreamy, it's not exactly the norm in New York's largely white and privileged fine art scene.
It is a relatively new development and its residents are largely middle-class and privileged.
