Sentence examples for the privilege which from inspiring English sources

Issa called the move an "untimely" assertion of the privilege, which has been asserted just 25 times since 1980.

According to Goodwin, a Houston newspaper complained in 1860 that Lincoln "has most unwarrantably abused the privilege which all politicians have of being ugly").

If this be decided in the negative, then he may answer it without violating the privilege which is secured to him by law.

And enough of them seem to be prepared to pay the higher subscriptions for the privilege, which means that Pictfor can spread its wings.

He said the privilege, which is included in the United States Constitution and in many state constitutions, was designed to protect lawmakers from civil matters that would interfere with their legislative duties.

This is scarcely surprising, for the plurality opinion would create a novel and entirely unnecessary extension of the privilege which would exceed the needs of the privilege's purpose and seriously inhibit the protection of other public interests.

The privileges which it affords to one class it must afford to the other.

The privileges, which, for example, allow workers in the electric and railroad industries to retire at 50 with a full pension, have created an annual shortfall of $7 billion that taxpayers have to shoulder.

If under such circumstances he is bound by all the conditions of ordinary mercantile transactions he may justly claim some of the privileges which attach to those engaged in such transactions.

Scheduled tribes are entitled to all the privileges which are given to untouchables; they have their own representatives in the State Assemblies; there are eleven State Ministers who are aboriginals.

The court cannot participate with him in this judgment, because they cannot decide on the effect of his answer without knowing what it would be; and a disclosure of that fact to the judges would strip him of the privileges which the law allows, and which he claims.