Sentence examples for years of privilege from inspiring English sources

The Kabyé-dominated army, which has profited from years of privilege while underpinning the president's family rule, will be loth to lose power.

But with the campaign taking place during a still-difficult economy, the wealth of the candidates in Connecticut creates a bit of a challenge for their advertising teams: How do you boil more than 55 years of privilege and astounding affluence into 30 seconds of homespun appeal?

This has an advantage for biographers, in as much as it places the war at the centre of Sassoon's existence (which it undoubtedly was in emotional if not chronological terms), and allows them to complicate his early years of privilege with a louring sense of menace.

Ray Rice is now, after many years of privilege, being held accountable for his abusive behavior toward a woman.

Thus began seven years of educational privilege.

"After three hundred years of white privilege, there's an anger there that black folk don't see," he said.

There is no back story for this face beyond hundreds of years of inherent privilege and oppression.

They thrust their gruesome Tory bodies with their pointed grunting self-satisfied Tory faces and their scrabbling grasping Tory hands, blood under their fingernails and a thousand years of brute privilege swimming hazily in their eyes, in her direction.

In recent years, the idea of privilege — for whites, for men, for straights, and for others — has moved to the fore of American discourse.

McCain's earlier and post-War years were ones of privilege, stature and mischief.

No piece of pop culture can fully sum up a historical moment, but HBO's epic family drama Succession does a very solid job of diagnosing 2018 as a year of unfettered privilege and corruption built on a rickety foundation of mediocrity, bolstered by inherited power and influence.