Sentence examples for special privileged from inspiring English sources

Each person seems to be in a special "privileged position" with regard to his own thoughts and feelings, a position that no one else could ever occupy.

Yet Augustine spent a lot of time detecting and denouncing heresies, and so must any institution which is going to claim a special, privileged, hookup with the divine.

In Ukraine the power of a similar offer precipitated a civil war and geopolitical contest with Russia; in the Holy Land, though, the promise of "special privileged partnerships" was barely noticed.

Thanks to some major loopholes in the existing tax code that treat real estate developers as a special privileged class, it's entirely possible (even likely) that Mr. Trump pays little or no federal income tax.

BOYS -- and as we learn in "Masters of Doom," girls and men and women too -- have a special, privileged place in their hearts for violent fantasy worlds and things that go boom.

Although modern Western cultures have tended to regard hallucinations as a sign of "madness or something dire happening to the brain," Dr. Sacks observes, other cultures regard them, like dreams, "as a special, privileged state of consciousness — one that is actively sought through spiritual practices, meditation, drugs or solitude".

A long and widespread philosophical tradition holds that self-knowledge is epistemically special, that we have specially "privileged access" to perhaps even infallible or indubitable knowledge of at least some portion of our mentality, in a way that is importantly different in kind from our knowledge of the world outside us (see Section 4 below).

Students in Beijing and Shanghai get special privileges – they are the beneficiaries of generous local quotas for the best universities – despite being more likely to be privileged anyway.

"She didn't have a particularly special or privileged upbringing".

Normal rules of technocracy — everything private, special, secret, privileged — read differently in a place where young people wear snakes around their necks and charge strangers to take their pictures.

Postmodernism rejects the assumption that science has a special and privileged claim to truth, a claim that is fundamental to chemical engineering.