Sentence examples for privilege in favour from inspiring English sources

With the appropriate safeguards to ensure that grammar schools are not "captured" by the middle classes, this is a direct assault on privilege in favour of bright kids from poorer backgrounds, many of whom are currently effectively denied the education they deserve.

Du Fu would have been allowed to enter the civil service because of his father's rank, but he is thought to have given up the privilege in favour of one of his half brothers.

I'm not in favour of privilege on the whole but in a sense she is neutral and there is some benefit in that.

But while it has lasted it abolished national privileges in everyday market transactions in favour of a political economy, scaled to the size of a macro-regional continent, rather larger in population than the US.

Mr Berlusconi's instincts are those of a trader in favours and privileges, not of a competitor in unfettered markets.

This privilege, in effect, allowed its recipients or their agents to rule over those inhabiting their property as long as they enjoyed royal favour.

Privilege in art is a thorny issue.

"But elephants get a special privilege in this society.

"We have privilege in our hands as storytellers," she said.

The Bronx lost its 212 privilege in 1993.

Inequality, power and privilege in the struggle for the humanities.