Sentence examples for more privileged groups from inspiring English sources

In 1987, 77percentt of the students came from more privileged groups, with parents who were teachers, professionals, managers or owners of their own companies.

As a practical matter, the OECD position has softened in subsequent policy statements (e.g., OECD 2004) on the reasoning that unions might seek moderate wage increases in circumstances where they implicitly have to represent the views of all workers in a sector rather than more privileged groups for whom the unemployment risk is already attenuated.

Those in the discriminated-against groups can't bring their full talents to the table, languishing in jobs that are in many ways "beneath them," while less-talented members of more privileged groups take high-powered, high-paying jobs that are beyond their abilities, dragging down everyone with their relative incompetence.

In West Bengal, some backward castes actually have greater access to skilled birth attendance than more privileged groups [ 28].

Furthermore, dietary inequalities may even be increasing, which may partly rest on the growing availability of nutritional advice to which more privileged groups seem to have more access.

These students do not display the habits or confidence that would have been instilled in a more privileged group.

Again, such a failure would be unthinkable for a disease affecting more privileged population groups.

In those countries that have had official racial classifications, individuals' struggles to be re-classified (almost always as a member of a more privileged racial group) are often invoked to highlight the contingency of race, especially at the borders of its categories.

But in recent months, a more unlikely privileged group has found itself in the cross hairs: tenured ­professors.

Opportunities to focus on one's passions can be thought of as scarce resources, of which, the highest quality is more available to privileged groups.

There are differences in how and when people seek care, where socially vulnerable groups more often than privileged groups refrain from seeking care or are not seeking in accordance with the expected needs [ 8, 9].