Sentence examples for only privileges from inspiring English sources

There were no rights, only privileges for those who paid the Camorra or a politician in cash or votes.

Nor did the President mention that all the privileges he referred to are only privileges, and that the parties who are entitled to assert them can also waive them — as the President could now.

And it was so heady a feeling that I rolled with it, recognizing that I now had access to previously white only privileges.

Reconciliation is a process where everyone should be given equal rights and responsibilities, not only privileges, and one side should not make all the concessions.

The importance of a solid background in civic education in high school can't be more urgent in a society that is often unaware that being a citizen requires not only privileges but obligations to be informed of political and social issues.

The only privilege I have is that I don't have to queue for my meals.

Your only privilege, even as the son of a noble house, is to understand the fix you are in, and to express yourself neatly when neatness can avail you nothing.

On the other hand, what the defenders of remuneration committee largesse see as meritocracy is usually only privilege trading under another name: the built-in advantages of people whose sprint up the economic ladder is guaranteed by heredity, education and connection.

Her only privilege was the use of her father's "man," a do-anything emissary and delivery person, who always picked up the phone and, astonishingly, would deliver Corner Bistro hamburgers fresh and hot to any downtown dive bar, usually one occupied primarily by pre-op transsexuals, where Greta and Kromer might be hanging out.

What is distinctive about the three realms of rights beyond the rights of conduct is that they seem only to contain only privilege-rights (Wenar 2003).

Perhaps only privilege allows for the idle lassitudes of illusion.