Sentence examples for small privilege from inspiring English sources
The Governor of Namur, having promised the archduke Albert (about 1600) a company of soldiers that should neither ride nor walk, sent a detachment on stilts, which so pleased the Archduke that he conferred upon the city perpetual exemption from the beer tax no small privilege.
To prevent a single notorious criminal from exhibiting artwork, Mr. Goord is harshly depriving the state's other 67,000 inmates, many of whom are in prison for nonviolent offenses, of a small privilege that gives them a sense of self-esteem.
After all, it isn't every day that a pastor and local church are given the opportunity and potential influence of hosting a major Presidential forum within the confines of their faith community; no small privilege.
Some deals are inexpensive and buy relatively small privileges.
"People are outraged if an inmate has a TV or if any small privileges.
Points can then be exchanged for small privileges.
Coolidge and others point out that this is as true for black, working-class, and gay film-makers – in fact, anyone outside a small circle of privilege.
One of the side effects of the realist tendency in American indie cinema, evidenced in films that privilege small moments and ineffable moods, is an aversion to — perhaps even a fear of — stories.
That Lloyd could afford not to have much of an opinion — that he simply didn't have to think about race while making choices big and small — was a privilege he had never considered.
In the end, Harrow came across as exactly what it is: a small pocket of privilege that is comfortably riding out one of the deepest economic downturns of the past 100 years.
Do we understand the ethical issue that is posed for us by the huge increase in population in Africa, the problem of poor people surrounding this increasingly small island of privilege which is Europe?
