Sentence examples for personal privilege from inspiring English sources

In Chapter 1, I suggest the privileged manage threats to their sense of merit by creating a false dichotomy between group and personal privilege: they accept group privilege exists, but deny personally benefiting.

The right of a person under the 5th Amendment to refuse to incriminate himself is purely a personal privilege of the witness.

I would like to raise a point of personal privilege.

Just one more thing, somewhere between a technicality and a point of personal privilege.

Immunity from suit under the Eleventh Amendment is a personal privilege which may be waived.

Importantly, self-affirmed participants acknowledge greater personal privilege, and as a result support inequality-reducing policies.

The Soviet Union controlled its colonies through a network of local élites, who ceded ultimate authority to the Kremlin in exchange for what they imagined would be personal privileges and a reasonable degree of job security.

Those Muslims who cite religion to oppose women as economic agents do so not because they fear violating the faith, but because they fear losing comfortable cultural certitudes and personal privileges.

"All Washington Post journalists relinquish some of the personal privileges of private citizens.

The personal privileges of the princes the privy purse, the exemption from customs duty, and customary dignities survived, only to be abolished in 1971.

While state property would be taken over, their private property would be protected, as would all personal privileges, dignities and titles.