Sentence examples for material privilege from inspiring English sources

The telling aspect of Mr Cameron's upbringing was not its material privilege but its social wealth.

Though he led a life of material privilege, Lucan's early life saw him less blessed emotionally.

Her disgruntled host responds that without Maura's family and material privilege she must make decisions according to her needs.

It's a combination of material privilege and more superficial stuff, like the way he looks and sounds… During the past election campaign, for instance, he was not visible.

Belle grew up in Kenwood House in Hampstead, surrounded by great material privilege and familial love, but simultaneously excluded from vast swaths of society by the colour of her skin.

Josh confronts his mother about Colton, but Shelly maintains the family did the right thing by putting the child out of their "world", and reminds Josh of the huge material privilege he enjoyed growing up.

And, given these material privileges, Israel needed an immanently legal definition of a Jewish person.

He wanted respect; he wanted the huge budgets, skilled artists and material privileges the Soviet arts system offered.

The Stasi also offered material privileges: Schramm's family had a car and a telephone, a great luxury at the time.

Since winning the January election, Hamas leaders have seemed refreshingly uninterested in the material privileges of power, but they also seem unwilling to acknowledge their own failures of governance.

For Merton and others, social structure consists not only of normative patterns but also of the inequalities of power, status, and material privileges, which give the members of a society widely different opportunities and alternatives.