Sentence examples for traditional privilege from inspiring English sources

The wealthy, especially from emerging nations, took great pleasure in patronising (if not owning) the fixtures of traditional privilege.

Almost simultaneously the provincial Estates were foreshadowed in the petitions of magnates and towns in several regions for relief from administrative violations of traditional privilege; but the resulting charters of 1314 15 were poorly coordinated.

Honorary membership to the prestigious club – which is situated just 600 yards from the campus – is a traditional privilege afforded to those running the university, but upon Prof Richardson's appointment, this tradition was promptly done away with.

If you don't earn enough tokens, you're forbidden from doing things such as joining the school football team or, if you're in year six, luxuriating in the traditional privilege of sitting on benches (and not the floor) during assembly.

Hewitt at least started convincingly: winning the first set in a hurry after walking out shortly before 1 p.m. to enjoy the reigning champion's traditional privilege of opening play on Center Court.

A number of such priests, some of them educated at Oxford, declined the traditional privilege of ministering in comfortable and highly respected Anglican parishes and chose instead to live and work among the urban poor, particularly in the dockland area of East London.

Only in Mexico and to a lesser extent in Peru did professional armies form fairly coherent interest groups pressing for the maintenance of their traditional privileges.

It might prompt those athletic directors, presidents and boards to appreciate their traditional privileges, which would be jeopardized if they left.

The minister presented a program that offered the country's upper classes some voice in lawmaking in exchange for their consent to the abolition of many traditional privileges, particularly the nobility's immunity to taxes.

Conservatism derived from the fear that the liberal project of democracy would destroy all the traditional privileges of men over women, employers over workers, rich over poor, educated over uneducated, whites over other races, and the like.

Tyrants often introduced measures to improve the economic and social status of the poor; it was the aristocracy (who wrote the histories) who tended to oppose tyranny, because, in bypassing the constitution, tyranny threatened their traditional privileges.