Sentence examples for matters of privilege from inspiring English sources

This is part of a broader hazard, whenever left-leaning people confront the world of self-help: we're so primed to see things in structural terms – as matters of privilege and power – that we convince ourselves we're more powerless than we are.

In matters of privilege, legally married people benefit, but often so do other people who are coupled but not married.

A matter of privilege again.

Being able to walk away is a matter of "privilege", a Slate essay argues.

Bercow said the issue could be raised formally as a matter of privilege, but he understood the injunction had been lifted.

It's not a matter of privilege, or birthright, but merit -- or at least that's how it is now seen.

In the Soviet era, corruption was often a matter of privilege: access to nice food when none was on the shelves, the right to be treated at a special clinic when the wait to see a doctor would otherwise be several weeks.

Why should health care be a matter of privilege and not a right?

Legend has it that Thomas Jefferson carried his Greek grammar book with him wherever he went....when a citizen is in any way distinguished, he is preferred to the public service, not as a matter of privilege, but as the reward of merit.

Established by Standing Order 18 of the Senate, the privileges committee is responsible for reporting on matters of parliamentary privilege referred to it by the Senate.

Since then, indignation has raged pretty well unquenched at Westminster.Quite apart from the question of whether the Home Office overreacted by calling in the police, and whether the police overreacted in arresting Mr Green rather than inviting him in for questioning, is the matter of parliamentary privilege.