Sentence examples for privilege falls from inspiring English sources
Issa later declared that the decision to assert executive privilege "falls short of any reason to delay today's proceedings".
Therefore, the responsibility of dismantling racism and privilege falls overwhelming on the group of peoples benefiting from the system of racism and privilege.
My book Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda is about a million things: growing up, changing, coming out, renegotiating friendships, recognising privilege, falling in love.
The American writer and intellectual Susan Sontag once wrote of the need to recognise how "our privileges fall on the same map as their suffering".
While their on-campus counterparts enjoy a ready-made friendship network in student accommodation from freshers' week, commuters do not benefit from the identical privilege of falling into friendship groups in their halls and often have to make more of an effort to forge friendships.
New York State law allows "shopkeepers' privileges" that fall somewhere between the prerogatives of the police and a citizen's arrest.
While not insignificant, an expansion of benefits limited to those privileges would fall far short of the financial benefits given married military couples — including medical and dental benefits and housing allowances.
These women have the very western problem of commitmentphobic men, but they are entirely without the western woman's rights and privileges to fall back on in their loneliness.
Other, more mundane responsibilities – like selecting the US representative to the Venice Biennale, a privilege that currently falls to the state department – would produce a more estimable showing of American culture when put to an office dedicated to the job.
But by giving people a choice as to whether they wish to pay the extra money necessary for such a privilege, that criticism falls by the wayside.
She says she managed to avoid the ceremony of mizuage (deflowering) by conversing with the guest who had paid for the privilege until he fell asleep.She was one of the few geishas to learn English.
