Sentence examples for privileges cannot be from inspiring English sources

Mr Clegg never much liked the policy, trying and failing to persuade his party to ditch it on the reasonable grounds that middle-class privileges cannot be sacred in tough times.

"The requirement of admitting privileges cannot be taken seriously as a measure to improve women's health," wrote judge Richard Posner of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in his November decision that Wisconsin's admitting privileges requirement was unconstitutional.

But that privilege cannot be construed to include the right to commit perjury...

But that privilege cannot be construed to include the right to commit perjury.

If so, the privilege cannot be invoked on behalf of the organization or its representatives in their official capacity.

He stressed that the privilege "cannot be absolute," and, based on the evidence in her case, she was not entitled to its protection.

The courts ruled in the course of the Watergate scandal that executive privilege cannot be used to hide inappropriate or unlawful conduct by the executive.

But uncontrolled official suppression of the privilege cannot be made a substitute for the duty to maintain order in connection with the exercise of the right.

It was said the constitution 'grants him the privilege of being confronted with the witnesses against him, but if he voluntarily keeps the witnesses away he cannot insist on his privilege.' So here the corporation was perhaps entitled to service on its officers or agents; but as this was prevented by their wrongful acts, the privilege cannot be insisted upon.

But while the ruling in the Espy case significantly expanded the concept of executive privilege, it explicitly established a limit: the claim of privilege cannot be used to shield deliberations on matters not related to the President's official functions or to criminal conduct by the President or his aides.

Although the Whitewater independent counsel has argued that the privilege cannot be used by Mr. Clinton because it protects only "official Government matters," White House lawyers have replied that discussions about the inquiry are official because they involve issues that may wind up in Congressional hearings or impeachment proceedings.