8 sentences with 'privilege'
Example sentences and phrases with the word privilege and other words derived from it.
• « Both the Christian patriarch of the Orthodox Church and the head of the Jewish congregation in Constantinople (as well as the Armenian Christian patriarch) were official members of the Sultan's court, and each religious leader had the privilege and responsibility of representing their respective religious communities before the Ottoman government. »
• « The abolition of privilege meant that a government - especially in matters of taxation and law - should treat people as individual citizens rather than as members of social classes. People differed quantitatively in the amount of wealth they possessed, but not qualitatively according to social rank or wealth. »
• « His victories were due not only to his own mastery of battlefield tactics, but to the changes introduced by the French Revolution earlier. The removal of noble privilege allowed the French government to enforce conscription and increase the size and flexibility of its armies. »
• « Liberals shared the conviction that freedom in all its forms - freedom from the despotic rule of kings, from the obsolete privilege of nobles, from economic interference and religious intolerance, from occupational restrictions and limitations on speech and assembly - could only improve the quality of society and the well-being of its members. »
• « Whereas in the past the term "rights" referred to the traditional privileges enjoyed by a particular social group, from the king's exclusive right to hunt in his forests to the peasants' right of access to common lands, today rights come to mean a fundamental and universal privilege that is concomitant with citizenship itself. »
• « The bourgeois were increasingly proud of their identity as "self-made" men, men whose financial success was based on intelligence, education and competence rather than on noble privilege and inheritance. »
• « Man is the only being endowed by God with free will; thanks to this privilege he can choose, make decisions, act in one way or another. »