Sentence examples for privilege on the from inspiring English sources

He promised justice, and warned, "We cannot have sacrifices on one side and privilege on the other".

ONLY a few weeks ago Bagehot was lamenting that British politics had degenerated into a phoney debate on law and order on the one hand, and "privilege" on the other.

He writes about people who try to cross the lines, including his own parents: "They were torn between their values on the one hand and the benefits of their privilege on the other".

A persistent challenge in this work is how simultaneously to invite and involve men on the one hand, and avoid colluding or reinforcing male privilege on the other.

Not for the first time, those banished to the margins - greens, civil society, human rights activists and the poor of the earth on one side; racists, xenophobes and those devoted to the conservation of privilege on the other - will be the principal players in the politics of this century.

On Wednesday, for the first time since he was elected, President Obama invoked executive privilege on the disputed documents.

"Being happy to leave rights and privileges on the table," was one thing, he ventured tentatively.

Currently, most fishermen sell their catch to the one business that has offloading and storage privileges on the dock.

The reds rallied and railed, then as now, for Thaksin on the one hand and against the establishment entitlements and privileges on the other.

They conferred exaggerated privileges on the new Tuscan nobility, which became increasingly insolent.

The oldest surviving charter (1179) confers several trade privileges on the burgesses of Aberdeen.