Sentence examples for privilege instead of from inspiring English sources

Though the Israelites have prided themselves on being the elect of God, they have misinterpreted this election as privilege instead of responsibility.

But Harry J. Holzer, an economist at Georgetown University, argues much of the recent growth at the top reflects insider privilege instead of real productivity.

Most starkly, we continue to treat access to food as a privilege, instead of as a fundamental human right.

Someone inevitably tells me to say "white privilege" instead of "white supremacy," because people wrongly associate the latter only with the KKK and hearing it scares them off.

But Bellamy said that deprivations will continue as long as water access is seen as a privilege instead of an inviolable right.

He also shows how "human capital," the favorite term of endogenous, or internal growth, theorists has turned education into a tool to entrench privileges instead of a ladder out of poverty.

Experienced investigators put less emphasis on the creative aspect of the work, privileging, instead, the necessity of structuring the lab's work in order to enhance productivity.

Buber resisted this slippage, privileging instead the anti-monarchical strata of the Hebrew Bible.

In a nod to the many critiques of Girls surrounding race and class issues, for example, Dunham describes going back to speak at Oberlin and having a student ask, "How does it feel to be a line item in so many people's narratives of privilege and oppression?" Instead of an actual answer to the student's question, we get a self-deprecating crack.

When role based or attribute based access controls are used, then the delegator may delegate a role or attribute instead of a privilege, since privileges are assigned to roles and attributes.

This is certainly important but, for defendants facing jail because they cannot afford to pay fines, it is hardly a consolation to know that a well-heeled woman has been given the profitable privilege of prosecuting them instead of a well-heeled man.