Sentence examples for privilege of standing from inspiring English sources

Accepting his 2011 NEA Jazz Masters award at the Rose Theater on Tuesday night, the pianist Ellis Marsalis noted the privilege of standing alongside his fellow honorees, both "past and passed on".

In most airports, you are hustled off the plane and up stairs, down escalators, around corners, and along endless low-ceilinged, interior corridors before you have the privilege of standing in a line to show your passport.

The classic conversation in Rome is a walk to the coffee bar, dodging double parked cars and speeding scooters, then pushing through a crowds to pay for the little receipt which grants you the privilege of standing elbow to elbow at the bar trying to ask for an espresso which, when delivered, is downed in seconds.

Just 120 people get the privilege of standing inside the monument to witness the remarkable illumination that occurs when a beam of sunlight shoots down into the narrow corridor that leads into the chamber, flooding the entire 19-metre stone passage in a warm orange light.

And if Jagger's call-outs to "everyone at the back" feel forced, given that thousands have paid a good bit extra for the privilege of standing nearer the front, then the explosive force of Midnight Rambler (with added Mick Taylor) or Jumpin' Jack Flash forces one to swallow qualms.

So that he could have the privilege of standing by his people.

Commuters are sick of standing up like sardines on overcrowded trains and paying higher and higher prices for the privilege.

The Problem of "Standing".

Get rid of standing water.

Leading with a belly is a male privilege of long standing, of course, a symbol of prosperity in most cultures and of freedom from anxieties about body image that have plagued women since Eve.

One of my life's privileges was standing with a group of ordinary citizens listening to President Nelson Mandela at an outdoor town meeting in 1999.