Photography has lost its privileged position in relation to truth.
Since then the Russians annexed two Georgian provinces, maintained their occupation, oversaw the departure of international monitors, and announced a doctrine stating Russia's "privileged" status in relation to the former Soviet republics on its borders.
That these surveys were both representative of an entire nation and could follow individuals throughout their lives, gave them a privileged position in relation to policy-making.
Being given specific items of food by a parent in response to a demand expressing hunger can indicate to the child not only that the parent understands that a need to eat has to be met, but also, and more importantly, that he/she is loved by the parent, that he/she enjoys a privileged position in relation to the parent's attention and priorities.
As literary scholar Kari Lokke writes, The Last Man, more so than Frankenstein, "in its refusal to place humanity at the center of the universe, its questioning of our privileged position in relation to nature ... constitutes a profound and prophetic challenge to Western humanism".
Informed consent is indeed a balancing act of judgment However, because the clinician holds a privileged epistemic position in relation to the patient, the idiomatic "less is more," is not absolutely defensible.
By contrast, the standpoint of the privileged represents social phenomena only in relation to the interests of the privileged class, but ideologically misrepresents these interests as coinciding with universal human interests.
This is significant, as in making this recommendation, the committee effectively privileged judgement of medical practice (in relation to biomedical, procedural norms) over a consideration of the processes involved in the construction of medical practice.
Needless to say, dominant forms of masculinity more often than not work to men's advantage in all sorts of ways, particularly in relation to their privileged access to power and influence in the socio-economic and political spheres, and also often in the private sphere.
To the best of our knowledge, these synergistic functional relationships have not previously been reported in the literature and will form the basis of our future investigations into how widespread/conserved these relationships occur across different physiological/pathological settings, body compartments (particularly in relation to immune privileged sites) and species.
This apparent contradiction suggests how the discursive effects of privileged normalization are simultaneously inclusionary and exclusionary in relation to the status and identities of the marijuana user, with the result that some identities are subject to 'othering' while the marijuana use of other groups is sanctioned.
