Sentence examples for privileged minority from inspiring English sources

"We've been a privileged minority in how we've been able to be a part of American society," said Mr. Dash.

Such moments of reprieve in a car or a café are restricted to a small, privileged minority.

People also like to feel that they know what's correct and what isn't, and thus belong to a privileged minority.

In France, sports d'hiver (winter sports) means mountains – and for the privileged minority, mountains mean skiing and snowboarding.

He announced the end of the reign of the privileged minority that had dominated the invigorated private sector during the Sādāt years.

For the privileged minority, however, leisure defined a good deal of their existence, the model of aristocratic "society" being redeployed in the early 19th century.

He told a lawyer for the University of Texas at Austin, which was challenged over its policies, that he was uncomfortable with its efforts to attract privileged minorities.

Often it takes a rare injustice perpetrated against a privileged young person for our society to recognize the common injustices we visit every day upon less-privileged minorities.

Hope got in the way of straight thinking, but so did fantasy: that the Shiites, whom George H.W. Bush told to rise up in 1991, only to stand by and watch them be massacred, would greet their erstwhile betrayers as liberators; that a privileged Sunni minority would enthusiastically adapt to permanent minority status in a Shiite Iraq.

I might object to a principle that allows the members of a privileged racial minority to walk on the grass, even if my preferred principle is one where no-one gets to enjoy grass-walking.

(European use of privileged local minorities in colonial Africa contributed to the continent's most destructive post-colonial wars, including the Rwandan genocide).