Sentence examples for privileges since from inspiring English sources

And the hilariously depicted capital cabal of Adams, Clay, John C. Calhoun and Martin Van Buren suggests that Beltway incumbents have been protecting themselves and their privileges since long before there was a Beltway.

Despite the violent hostility of the landowners, the government upheld the Mesta privileges, since the guild paid generously for them and was supported by the merchants who exported the raw wool to the cloth industry of Flanders.

Ms. Chan is believed to be the first accredited foreign correspondent to be denied reporting privileges since the October 1998 expulsion of Yukihisa Nakatsu, a journalist with Japan's largest daily newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun.

He had already been enjoying some of a tribune's privileges since 36; but he now acquired them all and even some additional ones, such as the right to convene the Senate whenever he chose and to enjoy priority in bringing business before it.

The privilege has since been broadened and overused.

My ability to seize opportunities came from class privilege since my parents' generosity prevailed over their misgivings.

It is possibly the scariest tableau of prep school privilege since Robert Chambers requested another round at Dorrian's Red Hand in 1986.

Few scenes illustrate more starkly the erosion of white privilege since the end of apartheid two decades ago.Inequalities remain the median wage of whites is still four times higher than that of blacks.

Southwick's fan base spreads across the country, but no one wears its suits with the same entitlement as members of the Buffalo Club, a bastion of preppy privilege since it was co-founded by Millard Fillmore in 1867.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush's refusal to let two confidants provide information to Congress about fired federal prosecutors represents the most expansive view of executive privilege since Watergate, the House Judiciary Committee told a federal judge Thursday.

This if anything understates educational privilege, since it omits people who went to public schools abroad and those (the queen, again) educated by private tutors.Within public schools, it is true, a rather wider range is represented within the top 100.