Sentence examples for was given privileges from inspiring English sources

After a few months and for good behaviour I was given "privileges" to dig the staff gardens unsupervised.

Leslie Knighton, who became manager of Chelsea in 1932, wrote that Jackson "was given privileges that no other player I have heard of ever had", and that his life outside football was similarly unusual.

They were miffed that Euronext, which is run by a Frenchman and based in Paris, was giving privileges to French clients.

The press has real influence in our society and is given privileges in law in order to fulfill its function.

The independent-minded and well-educated Miss Aibagawa, having saved the life of the local magistrate's baby, is given privileges rarely extended to women of the era.

Soon the superiors were allowed to handle money; priests within the order were given privileges denied to lay brothers; the yearly "general chapter" was restricted to the friars' representatives; and so on.

In exchange, the merchants of Lübeck and the Hanseatic League were given privileges that created a monopoly of Swedish foreign trade and even had considerable influence on domestic trade and industry.

The unique political system in Malaysia, where Malays and other ethnic groups considered sons of the soil, or bumiputra, are given privileges, both official and unwritten, has come under strain in recent years as resentment has built up not only among minority groups but also among poorer Malays.

But despite their unofficial status, according to these accounts, they operate in coordination with the Russian military and are given privileges back home normally available only to serving soldiers.

The absence of adverse outcomes does not represent grounds for satisfaction, however, though it does suggest that persons being given privileges (such that a greater opportunity existed for them to abscond) did not present an imminent risk for violence to others or themselves.

That white lives should not be given privilege.