Sentence examples for privileged offspring from inspiring English sources

SKY HIGH Mike Mitchell's teenage comedy takes as its premise a private high school for the privileged offspring of superheroes.

But it has also tended to favor "princelings," the privileged offspring of former leaders who had ties to the party's revolutionary history.

She compared herself to narco juniors – a Mexican term for the privileged offspring of the country's drug lords – but said any money she received from her father was clean.

UNLIKE Japan's half-dozen recent prime ministers, many of whom were privileged offspring of earlier statesmen born for high office, Yoshihiko Noda last year came into the post unexpectedly.

He wanted to be the county secretary — the boss — but the provincial chief resented privileged offspring from Party headquarters and made Xi the No. 2. It was the Chinese equivalent of trading an executive suite at the Pentagon for a mid-level post in rural Virginia.

AMERICA'S CORNUCOPIA HAS CREATED the largest group ever of privileged offspring.

At the private American University of Afghanistan, privileged young adults — some of them the offspring of top officials and businessmen who have minted fortunes in the war economy — stride the five-acre Kabul campus, paying up to $6,000 a year for degrees in law and other subjects.

Gated communities and privileged schools for offspring, after all, were not in the minds of those who fought for freedom of speech and representative democracy some 14 years ago.

It is precisely these very much higher incomes, post-tax as well as pre-tax, which fund most private education in the UK, the main route by which the privileged pass on privileges to their offspring.

The loser, ie the winner of the perfect zero-mark essay, begins "When I saw this essay title, I suddenly felt the urge to laugh," before rattling off a list of inequity scandals in China from the past few years, from rocketing real-estate prices to official corruption and finding room for the privileged habits of the offspring of the rich and powerful.

We needn't bother asking how we can stop privileged parents passing privilege on to their offspring.