Sentence examples for privileged standard from inspiring English sources

This argument is of course utterly question begging against a view that holds that there is no privileged standard of rest (the view Clarke mistakenly attributes to Leibniz)!

The relativity principle built into STR is in fact nothing other than the Galilean principle of relativity, which is built into Newtonian physics.[3] In other words, while there is no privileged standard of velocity, there is nevertheless a determinate fact of the matter about whether a body has accelerated or non-accelerated (i.e., inertial) motion.

This development was sanctioned by the legal reform of 2004 which privileged standards negotiated at company level over those specified in sector agreements on a range of issues except the statutory minimum wage and job classification.

Then you could recognize systematic everyday uses of 'up' and 'down' that require some privileged standards — uses that treat things closer to a point at the center of the Earth as more 'down' and motions towards that point as 'downwards'downwards

Among jockeys and trainers alike, the Irish remain privileged to have standards set by authentic masters of the age.

The acetates and advance-release singles Ross brought home each week, in order to learn his parts, became, for Costello, the foundation for a wide-ranging record collection, as well as a privileged education — Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Frank Sinatra, standards, R. & B. The Beatles would be his earliest taste of rock and roll.

Marco Antonio Barrera comes from a privileged background by Mexican standards.

The division in Britain between an aristocracy of privileged workers enjoying international standards and a mass precariat of the rest will grow more acute.

The acetates and advance-release singles Ross brought home each week, in order to learn his parts, became, for Costello, the foundation for a wide-ranging record collection, as well as a privileged education Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Frank Sinatra, standards, R. & B. The Beatles would be his earliest taste of rock and roll.

Our life in Chicago was pretty richly privileged, too, by most standards.

Meanwhile, Tom ran away from the memories of that night, unable to grasp that a man like him ― white, privileged, attractive by Western standards, brought up in a stable family with positive role models ― could commit an act like that.