Sentence examples for share of privilege from inspiring English sources

THE Danish and Canadian top 1 percent certainly have their share of privilege: the Gus Wenners of the world, talented or not, are not rare.

Virginia Woolf's transgender character Orlando had his (and then her) share of privileges: an estate in England, horses, servants.

LIKE the child of a movie star or a politician, Crozes-Hermitage has enjoyed more than its share of unearned privilege.

The previous night's raucous, skinny-dipping revellers were in the grip of a collective hangover, groggy and painful, each one braced to lash out at the threats to our shared position of privilege.

For a time, to unsettle the status quo in which whites enjoy the lion's share of social privileges, quotas might be imposed by law or social custom.

"This is the one and only time I will have you take out your cellphones," she said, instructing the students to share their definitions of "privilege" via text message as part of a lesson on "The Great Gatsby".

There were surely differences between the two men — for starters, their Boston status was different, Bradlee coming from the hive of Wasps, Kennedy from lace-curtain Irish Catholics — but they shared a sense of privilege and fortune; they shared Harvard, the war, and an understanding of class; and they shared a penchant for gossip, detachment, irony, and courage.

I left TED with stories to tell, knowledge to share, and a sense of privilege that was both empowering and a bit uncomfortable.

Others are at last getting a fairer share of the dynastic privileges that used to accrue to men.

It is about carving out an even larger share of the special privileges and exemptions that are already made available only to organized religious institutions.

Most of the Washington press corps were also either compelled by the overnight storm or persuaded by their memories of television's earlier conquests to stay in their homes and share the privilege of the ordinary American householder to switch a knob and hop around as a fly on the wall of history.