Sentence examples for privilege to keep from inspiring English sources

Even Bill Clinton has discovered executive privilege to keep the bloodhounds at bay.

Mr. Rehnquist and Mr. Mitchell claimed lawyer-client privilege to keep his papers secret in 1971.

I respect reporters' privilege to keep their sources confidential, but not in this context.

Eventually, the White House gave up its claim of executive privilege to keep the documents secret, and Ms. Burford resigned on March 9 , 1983

Dr. Dean now says he was joking about why he invoked executive privilege to keep 145 boxes of his official records -- about 47percentt of them -- under a 10-year seal.

He has issued signing statements, noting his objections to certain legislation on constitutional grounds; he has expressed a willingness to create a system for trying detainees that offers fewer protections than criminal trials do; and his Administration has invoked the state-secrets privilege to keep information away from torture victims who have filed lawsuits.

Nicholas P. Episcopia, the president of the Eastern Property Owners Association of Garden City, which has about 2,000 members, said that he did not know of anyone who sought special privileges to keep the yard closed.

Thereafter, he sought to obtain royal confirmation of Oxford's rights and privileges, to keep the city of Oxford subordinate to the university, and to match the position of Cambridge.

It's much closer to pure class warfare, a defense of the right of the privileged to keep and extend their privileges.

They were given special privileges, allowed to keep their language and Roman Catholicism, even in areas in which the Orthodox Church was paramount.

I encourage anyone with an interest in Illinois politics to watch "Madigan: Power, Privilege, Politics," but to keep in mind that this is not something you'd find on "Frontline".