Sentences with phrase «privileged position as»

The youngest Tory minister in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, Mr Hancock readily admitted that his privileged position as an MP, and the happy coincidence...

Bitcoin Core has a privileged position as the «reference client.»

What does it mean to work in the studio now, as it increasingly cedes its privileged position as the exclusive laboratory for contemporary artistic practice to more mobile, itinerant, digital and global networks?

Susanna Hertrich's artistic practice occupies a privileged position as both interpreter and active participant in the otherwise largely inaccessible world of scientific research.

Article by Alison Hugill, Photos by Ériver Hijano in Berlin / / Nov. 24, 2015 Susanna Hertrich's artistic practice occupies a privileged position as both interpreter and active participant in the otherwise largely... [read on]

We're in a privileged position as one of the early entrants to the market.

The current justice secretary, the first sitting Cabinet member to appear before the inquiry, was in a privileged position as head of the Foreign Office throughout the build - up, execution and violent aftermath of the conflict.

In losing its privileged position as the authoritative source of knowledge, academia and diplomacy are in so many ways cloistering themselves exactly when they should be opening up.

«I'm in a really privileged position as a woman filmmaker, as a black filmmaker because at the current moment there's not a shortage of opportunity to tell the stories and that's not something that I was able to say even two years ago, three years ago,» she says.

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Both of the other members of the Sulzberger extended family have also held positions of increasing responsibility at the paper over the past several years as a way of testing their mettle, like a drawn - out, highly - privileged NYT version of the Hunger Games.

If God gave up his Godhead, considering it as something not to be grasped, but humbled himself and emptied himself and became a man, why are we so unwilling to give up our rights, our privileged positions, our thrones of intellectual certainty and polemical assertiveness?

Hierarchical thinking and action, says Mary Louise Pratt, is «historically as well as morally distortive» because it divides everything into privileged and unprivileged groupings, condemning some ideas, texts, and persons to the margins of a culture while exalting others to positions of primacy.

When we place ourselves up as the bringers of peace, as God's spokesman in the world, as the ones who will restore humanity to the garden, and then God seems to favor someone else who is «doing it all wrong,» we get jealous and envious, and we set out to kill and destroy them so that we ourselves do not lose our privileged position.

However, Eliade hesitates to assign a privileged position to the Judeo - Christian tradition as he argues that there are images and symbols in Christianity, which are common properties of the entire religious history of humanity.

It is thus crucial to the communicative enterprise to take an egocentrism - avoiding stance that rejects all claims to a privileged status for our own conception of things as bound to our own particular historical position in the world's processual scheme.

There will be no privileged position for the Jews as children of Abraham, for God does not need them.

To ask middle - class Americans to see American culture as Jesus would see it is to ask them to vote against their own privileged position in society.1

It is not, as Griffin contends, because Plantinga views his traditional concept of God «as holding a privileged, virtually invulnerable position in the minds of believers,» and thus has no interest in «asking what we might learn from... others» (ER 48 - 49).

There is no privileged position before God, not special status as God's chosen people.

In either case, Paul is saying that Jewish people have traditionally thought that as God's elect, they existed in a privileged position before God.

Informed opinion, however, agrees with Gunnar Myrdal in An American Dilemma that there is a vicious circle at this point.8 Denied the cultural, educational, and economic advantages held by others, underprivileged groups tend to remain in this status, as in America the restriction of Negroes to unskilled labor and meager educational facilities has prevented their advancement to positions of leadership comparable with the more privileged.

The believer who accords these texts a privileged religious status is, therefore, no longer in a position to understand what they are really saying for, as Bloom puts it, «when script becomes Scripture, reading is numbed by taboo and inhibition.»

First of all, the privileged kids that I wrote about first are, you know, sort of likely to go to schools like yours, to be in positions of authority as they grow up, policy, policy decisions.

If you are participating as an academic you are participating in a privileged position and you should be aware of that.

However, although all other laws must comply with it, unlike many other nations» «bills of rights», the HRA has no privileged position in UK law: unlike in the USA, where changes to the Constitution require special procedures, Parliament could repeal the HRA in the same way as any other law.

«I feel very privileged to be able to articulate my positions and my opinions on a myriad of subjects, and now I've been encouraged by many people in the general public, as well as Democratic funders and high level elected officials on both sides of the party line to seriously consider running,» the former star of «The Nanny» told reporters at the National Press Club in Washington.

'' Indeed, I have no plans to entrench myself in the position as it is a privileged post; at a point, I would have to leave and there is no better time to do so than when the applaud is very loud,» Nyantakyi told the Graphic Sports.

The Orthodox church in Greece protested loudly against the removal of religion from the ID - card, and yet I can not find any rational argument supporting their actions other than trying to hang on to the privileged position of that church and its followers in the Greek state - effectively hanging on to the ability to treat non Christian Orthodox citizens as lesser citizens.

Science has contributed tremendously to the progress in medicine but also to other aspects of society over the last 100 years or so, and to say that the world as it once was is a place we would want to go back to may be true for people in very privileged positions, but certainly not for most of us,» says geneticist Martin Bobrow of the University of Cambridge.

«These findings for anagram reading show for the first time that sensitivity to letter position, and the privileged status of the exterior letters in words, is well established in readers as young as 8 to 10 years old.»

As Scherer points out, «It is in a privileged position with respect to the liver,» into which the fat dumps a rich concentration of chemicals collected from the abdominal cavity.

Marica Vilcek, vice-president of the Foundation, added: «As the only foundation to recognize the outstanding contributions of foreign - born individuals to the biomedical sciences and the arts, we are in a privileged position to shine a spotlight on leaders such as Dr. Verma, whose achievements we are pleased to honor this year.&raquAs the only foundation to recognize the outstanding contributions of foreign - born individuals to the biomedical sciences and the arts, we are in a privileged position to shine a spotlight on leaders such as Dr. Verma, whose achievements we are pleased to honor this year.&raquas Dr. Verma, whose achievements we are pleased to honor this year.»

As a mother, I am in a privileged and perfectly positioned place to shape the next generation of conscious young minds.

His current stand - up shows briefly mentions the latest scandals as they are topical for the «Humanity» tour, the title of which comes from «me moaning about the state of the world from the most privileged position possible,» Gervais says.

Sabine de Barra's awareness of her gender and class limitations and her position as a recent widow does not place her as an embittered or embattled feminist attempting to unleash feminist aspirations on her privileged masculine contemporaries.

As such he is in a privileged position to provide commentary on its evolution and history.

I'll be the first to admit that as a writer I'm in a privileged, luxurious position.

Imagine that you had a privileged position analyzing mortgage securities, only to see your world blow up as the prices of residential real estate began to fall across the US.

«I feel very privileged and honoured to take up the general manager position of this iconic resort and as we prepare for the launch of an exciting new destination venue, the first permanent Buddha - Bar Beach worldwide, I look forward to elevating the guest experience for our sophisticated clientele.»

Enjoying a privileged position just 50 metres from Poniente beach and in the heart of Benidorm city, these comfortable apartments are the ideal accommodation option for a holiday full of entertainment and fun as visitors will have plenty of restaurants, shops and cafés a few steps away.

Positioned in a privileged location on the beachfront, fill your lungs with fresh Atlantic air as you step out from the marble lobby of the Crowne Plaza Vilamoura.

The privileged position of this eco-lodge will allow you to observe over 400 species of birds (such as the Scarlet Macaw) and poison dart frogs, deer, jaguars, wild pigs, bats, raccoons, anteaters, lizards and several types of monkeys (spider and howler monkeys) and other jungle creatures.

It's rumored that for those staff members who were part of the development behind certain projects whose end product didn't quite meet the standards or expectations set out by the higher - up's, would find themselves shunted into less - privileged positions in the company hierarchy — even going as far as landing roles as security guards, or worse, mere cleaners.

Since I never subscribed to the mystique of motherhood or to the cult of routine domesticity, I found myself by my middle thirties in the privileged position of being able to do largely as I pleased.

What started as a plan to remodel the north entrance of the Dallas Museum of Art quickly became an opportunity, in the words of curator Gavin Delahunty, «to completely refresh the space in keeping with the idea of a facelift and the belief that a sculpture at the entrance occupies a privileged position.»

This combination of gravitas and up - to - date engagement gave Steinberg a privileged position in the dialogue around the newest art, and he emerged as not only a witness but an important instigator in the transition from Abstract Expressionism (and Greenberg - ian strictures) to the next generation of artists, who were leaving behind painterly theatrics for the icier criticality of Pop.

In seminal essays such as «The Function of the Studio» (1970), Buren provides a pointed critique of the artist's compromised and fixed position within the art system, in which the studio plays the fundamentally strategic role of a hideout, as well as of a privileged place where the work is produced and presented for the first time.

As a medium traditionally associated with imaginative exploration and translation, drawing occupied a privileged position within Roszak's investigation of creation in both its natural and artificial registers.»

Broodthaers's performative dismissal of his own ambition and sophistication as an artist might have stemmed in part from his recognition of his privileged position in belonging to the French - speaking Walloon population, who were considered more refined thanks to their greater cultural proximity to France — a state of affairs whose absurdity, considering the French's widespread ridicule of the Belgians, was not lost on the artist.

Hiller refers to this precarious positioning of her oeuvre as «paraconceptual,» just sideways of conceptualism and neighbouring the paranormal, a devalued site of culture where women and the feminine have been conversely privileged.