Example collocations logo

Privilege in sentence

478 examples of Privilege in a sentence

We're adding the Jeffersonian agenda, and I come from Charlottesville, where I've had the privilege of living in a house designed by Thomas Jefferson.
Now, when most of us decide to wear a pair of jeans someplace like New York, London, Milan, Paris, we possibly don't stop to think that it's a privilege; something that somewhere else can have consequences, something that can one day be taken away from us.
JE: Well, it's an honor and a privilege to meet you.
And third, isirika affirms that those who have more really enjoy the privilege of giving more.
It is a privilege to give more.
Imagine what kind of existence we can have if we honor inevitable death of self, appreciate the privilege of life and marvel at what comes next.
It's really an honor and a privilege to be here spending my last day as a teenager.
Every year or so, I have the privilege of taking clinicians into the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau.
I had the privilege of working on death row in a maximum security [prison] for six years.
For me, it means helping others to raise the beams on their own formerly abandoned houses, or helping to educate those with privilege, now increasingly moving into cities, how we might come in and support rather than stress existing communities.
The reason we can say that, though, is that workers in a lot of these buildings now compete for the privilege of working in the Kiva zone that day.
I assumed everyone there would see it as a privilege as well, that they'd be excited to be there.
And in my research and my teaching, I found that these students, no matter how happy they were with their original success of getting into the school, two weeks later their brains were focused, not on the privilege of being there, nor on their philosophy or physics, but on the competition, the workload, the hassles, stresses, complaints.
Yet I am afraid of privilege, of ease, of entitlement.
I had the great privilege, when I was a young lawyer, of meeting Rosa Parks.
I had the privilege to speak twice to the president's climate task force.
WG: It's not just knowing that white people like Lisa in Chicago have white privilege, it's reflecting consciously on the term whiteness and its history, knowing that whiteness can't be equated with American.
But Lisa knows she can pass as white so she benefits from huge systemic and interpersonal privileges, and so she spends every day grappling with ways that she can leverage that white privilege for social justice.
For example, starting conversations with other people of privilege about race.
Because you cannot talk about race without talking about privilege.
And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.
To experience it is a privilege.
Now, a lot of people think that this is kind of idealistic, ridiculous, maybe even hopeless, but I just want to talk to you a little bit about why I think that the job I have is actually a privilege, okay, and give you a little bit of the motivation for my getting into this line of work, if that's what you call it.
Let me just say, look, my job is a privilege because we're in a special time.
So to me, it is a privilege, and when I look in the mirror, the facts are that I really don't see myself.
So you drive and drive and drive, and, actually I've got to admit, just because I was struggling with this because I'm here, but I'll just say it, is, I cannot tell you, not only to be here in front of you, but what a privilege it is to be at US campus, because I have been escorted off of this campus so many times.
I saw my own internist last week, and he said to me, "You know," and he told me something that everyone in this audience could have told me for free, but I paid him for the privilege, which is that I need to lose some weight.
More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege.
Anyway, it's a great privilege to be here.
The biggest privilege is females.
Next