Sentences with phrase «of class privilege»

Receiving the usual crop of invitations from barristers» chambers to join them in celebrating the appointment of new Queen's Counsel prompted me to wonder how this strange relic of class privilege has survived and what has really changed since the 1950s.

Receiving the usual crop of invitations from barristers» chambers to join them in celebrating the appointment of new Queen's Counsel prompted me to wonder how this strange relic of class privilege...

At the April 2012 community summit, art student Alan Lundgard noted that should the tuition model go through, «Our problems will exemplify our country's inability to provide for its citizens an education unencumbered by the barriers of class privilege or wealth.

Many travel writers talk about money and budgeting and saving for travel, while conveniently ignoring a discussion of class privilege.

Elsewhere at the publication, a blog post once called unpaid internships «the most pernicious example of class privilege.»

Not exact matches

Despite Hefner winning a nearly two - year battle with the U.S. Post Office to secure second - class mailing privileges for Playboy magazine, the publication was still reviled in many quarters of pre-sexual-revolution America, and cautious investors wanted nothing to do with the project.

«It is high time to rid ourselves of the notion that leisure for workmen is either lost time or a class privilege.»

While some have been criticized for not giving enough attention to the murder victims, the shows no doubt are contributing to the debate over the role that factors such as race, class, privilege, and (sometimes) plain bad luck can play in matters of criminal justice.

This class of stock (shares) generally has the least amount of rights and privileges.

This truly is a powerful privilege, and one that Zuckerberg has probably made some personal financial sacrifices in order to obtain, since the dual - class structure likely depresses the value of Facebook stock somewhat.

If we raise additional funds through further issuances of equity, convertible debt securities, or other securities convertible into equity, our existing stockholders could suffer significant dilution in their percentage ownership of our company, and any new equity securities we issue could have rights, preferences, and privileges senior to those of holders of our Class A common stock.

The class of stock grants special rights and privileges that usually provide greater protection and avenues of greater influence on company decision - making, these can include anti-dilution rights, pro-rata rights, and a liquidation preference.

And actually, the circles I travel in often discuss other axes of privilege as well, such as class privilege and cisgender privilege.

As a straight, white, middle - class, Christian male sitting in the seat of privilege, I've had to swallow quite a few sugarcoated critiques from my brothers and sisters from different ethnic and socio - economic classes.

That in and of itself will go a long way in reducing the amount of unconscious bigotry and unearned privilege of the ruling class.

Cultural resistance to marriage In certain sections of society, marriage has been almost eliminated from the culture; increasingly it has become the privilege of the middle classes.

The «prophetic» approach would be to call on middle class North Americans to abandon their privilege and power for the sake of the oppressed.

It seems to me that in the New Testament, Paul is especially adamant on the point (in I Corinthians 10 - 11, for example), that Christianity is no place for the flaunting of privilege or distinction (whether class or ethnic or whatever), and I think that is exactly what happens anytime you have a church were some members are cool and know it (and flaunt it), while others are not so much.

I think that white feminist theology that seeks to examine class and race privilege well addresses critiques of womanists and other women - of - color feminists.

He can not plead his own case, and he has no known relatives, no privilege of rank or class.

What is patent in the law in England is the effort of the jurists and parliamentarians to maintain the status quo and upper - class status and privilege until the industrial revolution, when the lower classes were eventually able to win the franchise and some [place] for themselves in governance after years of effort and much resistance.

In Power and Privilege Gerhard Lenski identifies clergy as members of the «retainer» class, buffering the ruling elite from the peasants.

Injustices, the demand for privileges, arbitrariness, prejudice, exclusiveness — all of the forms of oppressive behavior in which individual freedom and worth are denied — are a consequence either of deliberate self - seeking or of absolutizing limited goods, such as membership in a particular social class, nation, or family.

Democratic movements, on the other hand, reflect a religious spirit, when in the name of truth, equity, and universal rights the idols of race, class, economic privilege, party, and nation are tumbled down.

(*** Disclaimer: I am a white, middle - class, cis - gendered male who enjoys and can take advantage of these privileges I'm about to describe.

It fashions society into an economic organization in which production for profit becomes the central enterprise, in which the economic relations of men are regarded as their fundamental relations, in which economic privileges are most highly prized, and in which the resultant classes of men are set to struggle with one another for the economic goods.

In the futuristic Metropolis, (and almost every dystopian future) wealth and privilege are reserved for an upper crust of society, while an enslaved working class allows for excesses and keeps the city running.

The modern theory, which swept away every authority except that of the State, and has made the sovereign power irresistible by multiplying those who share it... condemns as a State within the State every inner group and community, class or corporation, administering its own affairs; and, by proclaiming the abolition of privileges, it emancipates the subjects of every such authority in order to transfer them exclusively to its own....

• The rejection of social and economic privileges which discriminate between different groups of people, which prevents the emergence of a class system.

Business people continue to believe, mutatis mutandis, that «what is good for General Motors is good for America»; the new middle - class professionals, no doubt with equal sincerity, believe that the «reordering of national priorities» that guarantees their privileges benefits the poor, the underclass or whatever other morally acceptable beneficiary can be plausibly cited.

When narrowly construed, as some authorities insist all privileges should be, a statute of this nature protects communications of a very limited class.

Ross Douthat is an associate editor at the Atlantic Monthly and the author of Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class.

I thoroughly enjoyed the occasion, especially the privilege of seeing you honored as valedictorian of your class.

And even though this was the twilight period of aristocracy, still the conception of learning verged on the ideal of universal knowledge, and was almost the exclusive privilege of the upper classes, automatically conferring prestige and social status on the educated man.

The club just milks people so they have the privilege of watching sham of a football match and to buy merchandise when they should be helping them (where is that class again that is always spoken of?).

This past May, after a thrilling battle with Cambridge, we had the privilege of nominating the first Blues class for American Football at Oxford.

The open and honest atmosphere amongst this group reminded me of discussions shared by my health classes and myself when we would discuss an article about The Price of Privilege.

In 1909, President Woodrow Wilson, who was then the president of Princeton University, said «We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity to forgo the privilege of a liberal education.»

It's basically a theory that white people in western countries have more societal privileges than people of other ethnicities who come from the same political, social and economic class.

During the 1950s and early 1960s, it also became increasingly unpopular amongst Labour supporters and politicians, who argued that the system reinforced class division and the privileges of the middle classes, who dominated the grammar schools.

Writers such as John Bright and Richard Cobden opposed both aristocratic privilege and property, which they saw as an impediment to the development of a class of yeoman farmers.

There is a danger that, in excluding any recognition of class from the processes enacted to tackle entrenched racial and gender privilege, working class people who fail to tick the correct boxes could be left even further behind.

«You have worked with us as an honorary adviser before now and I must confess that it was a rare privilege for me to have been advised by a woman with a first class competence in every aspect of developmental leadership.

Although academics don't warrant a «class privilege,» she said, academic - participant confidentiality can be awarded on a case - by - case basis, provided it meets the criteria of an existing four - step legal principle, known as the Wigmore test, which balances public interest in maintaining confidentiality against the court's interest in getting at the truth.

A new study conducted by Jennifer Reich, a researcher at the University of Colorado Denver, shows that the reasons why children may not be fully vaccinated depends on the class privilege of their mothers.

Any person paying to the Association the sum of one thousand dollars shall be classed as a Patron, and shall be entitled to all the privileges of a member and to all its publications.

I have had the privilege of being able to publish scientific abstracts with academic partners, teach classes at the university, and present scientific results to my peers.

Intracellular retention of the NKG2D ligand MHC class I chain - related gene A in human melanomas confers immune privilege and prevents NK cell - mediated cytotoxicity.

Tarot cards were rare and expensive — a privilege of the upper classes — until the invention of mass printing in the mid-1400s.

Since there were limited seats, only nerds like me (who had the privilege of scheduling classes early) and the extremely lucky students got a seat.