Sentence examples for privileges brought from inspiring English sources

The bishops' market and toll privileges brought them revenues in money, which many of the lay princes lacked.

TWELVE years ago, an attempt by a reformist French prime minister to put an end to public-sector pension privileges brought 2m protesters on to the streets and weeks of paralysis to the railways.

As well as new revenues for the bishop, the rights entailed by Glasgow's new burghal status and market privileges brought new people to the settlement, one of the first of whom was one Ranulf de Haddington, a former burghess of Haddington.

Her father thought privilege brought with it no rights, only duties.

Essentially a rich boy who was educated at Harvard and knew his wines, Fry assumed that privilege brought responsibility.

Using the privilege brought by the income from the licence fee, it should serve the thinly scattered few as well as the many.

The scrappy peasant girl from the Auvergne transformed herself in the public eye from the child of an itinerant peddler to a daughter of privilege brought up by genteel maiden aunts; from a fiercely ambitious courtesan to the social equal of the Duke of Westminster; from a moderately gifted seamstress to a celebrated couturier — and an enduring emblem of what ambition can achieve.

His beaming joy in love is little dimmed by his father's denunciation of Perdita, which echoes the violent invective of Leontes's attacks on his wife: even this wronged king is prey to the emotional indulgence that privilege brings.

Greater privilege brings greater expectations.

The reason Dunn can be shocked by such a verdict illustrates the very source of the sense of entitlement racial privilege brings.

The ban on books being sent to prisoners is part of the Incentives and Earned Privileges scheme, brought in by the Government in November.