Sentence examples for privilege itself from inspiring English sources

In that sense, the biggest problem isn't Fast and Furious — it's executive privilege itself.

Only landowning white males could run for office and vote, and the voting privilege itself was restricted in presidential elections to elite slates of electors who would effectively choose the country's president and vice president.

The White House's protests Sunday, in response to the release, that "President Obama supports responsible, accountable, and open government at home and around the world, but this reckless and dangerous action runs counter to that goal," would be more persuasive if the Administration hadn't, for example, recklessly invoked the state-secrets privilege itself.

Perhaps privilege itself is costly in its particular way.

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Portwood-Stacer suggests that being able to de-Facebook "is a privilege itself," an argument also put forth by Alice Marwick, an assistant professor at Fordham University.

But "The Visiting Privilege" conducts itself like an antic and slightly surreal version of Chekhov's story "Ward No. 6," in which the director of a lunatic asylum ends up being judged insane, and is committed to his own hospital.

Mr. Olson replied that claiming executive privilege would itself be burdensome, requiring the president and vice president "to spend time with documents," and that it would not necessarily cover everything that the separation of powers entitled the president to withhold.

Mr Murphy told BBC Scotland correspondent James Cook: "I'm standing not just to be the Scottish Labour leader, which would be a privilege in itself, but I'm standing to be our candidate to be first minister".

The shadow international development minister said: "I'm standing not just to be the Scottish Labour leader, which would be a privilege in itself, but I am standing to be our candidate to be first minister".

This serene, rustic-deluxe Relais & Châteaux property has become one of America's most celebrated country inns and restaurants, a magnet to a cosmopolitan crowd for whom getting this far away from it all is a privilege in itself.