An additional way for consuls to exercise particular policies was the awarding of a privileged status and protection to various individuals, who were known as sudiţi ("subjects", in the language of the time) of one or the other of the foreign powers.
Under Italian law, any lender to a company that has filed for bankruptcy protection receives privileged creditor status, meaning it will be paid back first.
It still telegraphs to some Americans that their views are privileged and merit special protection, and to others that their speech may soon be monitored in an unspecified way.
Mr. Carman moved his practice to London shortly afterward and began to change a situation where, because libel law in Britain favors the protection of privileged people's reputations, newspapers had generally settled cases out of court rather than contest them.
He's expected to describe the safeguarding of computer networks and the protection of privileged information — institutional or personal — as "absolutely essential".
He's expected to describe the safeguarding of computer networks and the protection of privileged information — institutional or personal — as "absolutely essential".
In Uelzen, all silvicultural management regimes simulate a reduction of spruce and pine proportions in favour of beech and Douglas-fir which is especially privileged under the climate protection (+27 percentage points) and reference run (+13 percentage points).
Tablets are just as porous as smartphones because they also lack firewall protection, placing privileged communications in finance, business and national security at risk of being stolen or hacked.
Both should be called to the witness stand, and, if there are any conspiracies to defraud the accused, the lawyer should not be allowed to skulk behind the protection of "privileged communication" to cloak his departure from right.
At the Liberal Democrat party conference in September, a vote called for "to protect responsible journalism, and ensuring greater protection for legally privileged and journalistic material from requests for telephone and other records".
