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Discover LudwigThe phrase 'mere privilege' is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used to suggest something that is not a right or an entitlement, but something that one is lucky to have and should be grateful for. For example: "Most people are fortunate enough to have access to education, but for me it is a mere privilege."
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Such contracts are in the nature of wagers, that contracted for being the mere privilege to buy the grain should its market value prove to be greater than the price fixed in the contract for such privilege.
Speaking on the matter in Parliament in 2009, the Minister for Law, K. Shanmugam, said that the right to vote could not be a mere privilege as this would imply the existence of an institution superior to the body of citizens that is empowered to grant such a privilege, but that no such institution exists in a free country.
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But leading up to the Grand Old Party's national convention in August 2004, New York's billionaire-mayor, Michael Bloomberg cavalierly suggested that our First Amendment rights of free speech and free assembly are not rights at all but mere "privileges" that, if abused, could easily be taken away, by him!
The court will not accept the President's "mere assertion of privilege as sufficient to overcome the need of the party subpoenaing the [testimony]." The presumption of privilege may be rebutted by a sufficient showing of need by the independent counsel.
The Court will not accept the President's "mere assertion of privilege as sufficient to overcome the need of the party subpoenaing the [testimony]." Id. at 713.
It also violates due process, he argues, because the mere claim of privilege under the Fifth Amendment does not provide a reasonable basis for the State to terminate his employment.
Thus, education GWAS discoveries are not mere correlates of privilege; they influence social mobility within a life.
In The Parlement of Paris, Joe challenged the view prevalent in France that, particularly after Louis XIV, they had been mere bastions of noble privilege and reaction.
And unlike pricey superstars like Madonna or recent O2 draw Barbra Streisand, who not only clock-watch but ogle the bottom line obsessively, Prince is charging a mere £31.21 for the privilege of seeing him hammer his body while wearing very high heels, the last vestige of cross-dressing left on a man who used to wear little other than ladies' smalls.
While you get a camera that should last you well into the next millennium, you'll pay a mere $4,195 for the privilege, making it considerably less than the M series but considerably more than the camera on your phone.
Instead, these ideas are the product of a complex mathematical equation, one that I will exclusively reveal now: 30% stupidity, 20% ignorance, 10% inability to take anything into consideration beyond mere aesthetics, 10% over-privilege, 30% infantile attention-seeking.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com