Sentences with phrase «privileged position at»

In the 16th century Nicolaus Copernicus moved the Earth from its privileged position at the centre of the universe.

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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.

«I'm in such a privileged position to work with someone who has the experience at scale that she has,» he said.

«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.

It includes the growth of professionalism and what has been called a «new class» of knowledge workers and information specialists — growth that has, to say the least, occurred at the expense of the privileged position that clergy in past centuries occupied within the professions.5

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.

With this jibe at their privileged position, he made it clear that he was determined to make them sing for their suppers.

The few that then glare down their nose at those they find dumb, all without realizing their privileged position.

He is a highly rewarded footballer who has passed his use by date at AFC and will go on to pastures new in a similarly privileged position.

India spends almost one million dollars a day on maintaining its privileged military position at Siachen.

«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.

Influential leaders have been detained and incarcerated at various times; some went to detentions straight from highly powerful positions while others moved from detention centres to privileged posts.

That provoked a letter on the privileged position of researchers working in the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) at the Australian National University.

Our track record shows that NeuroGLIA members are at the forefront of glial cell research, and can thus be reasonably expected to be in a privileged position to formulate hypotheses and design new experiments that will increase our comprehension of the role of astroglia in the brain.

The plot, however, of a 17th century subaltern, transgressing the impenetrable demarcations of privileged masculine courtier positions at the French royal court and French society overall, has been abandoned in favour of a trite and predictable love story, alas making A Little Chaos quite a regrettable affair through missed opportunity and Winslet's decision to undertake the unsatisfying role, simply baffling.

She is privileged to accept a much deserved, slower pace position running the front here at CCVH.

It is situated at the most privileged position that boasts stunning views over the Cretan Sea.

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.»

«I was in a rather uniquely privileged position among British artists, because I had lived in New York for a long time where there were plenty of Picassos to look at,» he told me on the phone last week.

Another pavilion that refutes the privileged position that the nation state is given at the Venice Biennale and challenges the depressing number of black artists in Christine Macel's vision is the Diaspora Pavilion, which is presented by the International Curators Forum and University of the Arts London.

In respect of the unambiguous impropriety exception, he cited Lord Justice Rix in Savings & Investment Bank Limited (in liquidation) v Finken [2004] 1 WLR 667, [2004] 1 All ER 1125 and summarised the position as being that «no matter how important the admission might be for the potential litigation, unless it can be said to arise out of an abuse of the privileged occasion, such as where it is made to utter «a blackmailing threat of perjury» (see 684E) its significance alone can not result in the admission being released from the cocoon of the «without prejudice» exclusion and into the glare of the forensic arena» (at para 20).

A seat at the table in top - level international negotiations brings status, so naturally Member States are reluctant to give up their privileged positions (which often reflect post-WWII power relations rather than our current international economic order).

At Totum we are privileged to be in a position to continue to help law firms source the expertise they need to manage processes in an ongoing age of transformation.

Justice Côté also noted that the statutory context supported this position, and in particular the legislation's reference to «legal privilege» in the provision allowing a public body to refuse to disclose privileged information — i.e., «information that is subject to any type of legal privilege, including solicitor - client privilege» (at para 52, citing FOIPP s 27).

I feel privileged to be eligible for a daycare assistant director position at Kids «R» You as I see that the requirements that you have posted complement my qualifications.