Sentences with phrase «privileged position in»

Some fear that the recognition of Indigenous rights would be a threat to national unity by creating «separate rights» and giving Indigenous people a privileged position in our nation's future.

As an academic Gavin didn't waste a minute — he knew he had been given a privileged position in society and he used it to great effect.

Instead of pride, professionalism can highlight an awareness of lawyers» privileged position in society and power imbalances that exist with clients.

Nonetheless, as this Court has consistently said, the integrity of our judicial system requires that the trial judge's privileged position in assessing the facts be respected.

Justice Camp's reliance on education and contrition as a «prescription for maintaining his unique and privileged position in society must yield to a result that more resolutely pursues the goal of restoring public confidence in the integrity of the justice system.»

As participants in a justice system that advances the Rule of Law, lawyers hold a unique and privileged position in society....

That the material stuff of paint encouraged the unselfconscious mark not only bolstered painting's already privileged position in the larger telling of recent art history, it also pushed it toward center stage when the curtain opened on Surrealism's part of that story.

Occupying a privileged position in his artistic practice, ceramics became a unique place of renewal in his pictorial work.

SO There's no privileged position in which to view your pieces.

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.

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.

With its privileged position in the city center, and offering more than 15,000 sqm of landscaped gardens, Silken Al - Andalus is a real oasis of peace, the perfect retreat for a holiday in Andalusia if you are looking for exclusiveness, quietness and comfort.

Along with its privileged position in this cultural city, the hotel also enjoys sweeping views over the Ria, the Calatrava walkway and the spectacular museum which has become the symbol of Bilbao.

NH Hotels offers you the best hotel resort for your trip to Cuba so that you can enjoy a country which occupies a privileged position in travel guides every year.

I get worked up about unethical bloggers occupying a privileged position in the loyalty firmament.

Boasting a privileged position in Etxalar, the Venta Etxalar Hotel offers comfortable accommodation in the Navarra region.

The perfect home base for your romantic Adriatic Coast engagement, Falisia, a Luxury Collection Resort & Spa holds a privileged position in the a chic marina village of Portopiccolo.

In a privileged position in the southern Mediterranean, this isle of Aphrodite has a fine year - round climate and rich, cultural heritage.

Porsche has a privileged position in the performance luxury market.

«But those evolutionary biologists who by tradition owned explanatory authority in evolutionary theory (primarily population geneticists) are losing this privileged position in the EES, and some don't take it well.

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.

The former Sheffield United forward's proposed move back into football after he was convicted and served two and a half years behind bars for rape has been a particularly divisive and controversial one with an almost national debate questioning whether anyone who has committed such an abhorrent sex crime should be allowed to return to a lucrative and privileged position in football.

Settled first by the Dutch and then captured by the English, the Churches of these two people, the Dutch Reformed and the Anglican, held a privileged position in the colony.

The virgins had a privileged position in the community.

Historically, the Christianized West believed that humanity held a privileged position in the world.

We do not have some privileged position in the universe and it's very unlikely that a god had anything to do with it.

It deprives Jesuits of any privileged position in the academic world.

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

Since the post you're replying to distinguished between «Copernicus» heliocentric model of the solar system» and «the assumption that we aren't in an especially privileged position in the universe» — i.e. the «Copernican principle» — I'm not really sure why you ask that.

When you say «Copernicanism», are you referring to the heliocentric model of the solar system — which David's post discussed — or are you referring more broadly to the assumption that we aren't in an especially privileged position in the universe?

After warning the City of Stockton that its pension obligations did not enjoy a privileged position in federal bankruptcy court, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Klein proceeded to confirm the city's plan of adjustment.

Our posturings, our imagined self - importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.

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.

Not exact matches

So when it comes to corporate funding, «You have to be in a really privileged position to say «I don't need it,»» she says.

We all work hard to get to the place that we are, while we are privileged enough to be in a position to help others less fortunate.

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

I have this very privileged position here where I work with the art incredibly closely, almost closer than the artist in some ways because I'm breaking it down into minute little sections.

Having enough money to save for retirement puts you in a privileged position relative to many Americans.

For what it's worth, I do agree with Carter that it's possible to go too far in assuming that our position can't be privileged in any way.

To grow up in Canada is to inherit a privileged position for understanding modernity» sufficently distant from that hurtling spaceship of «the republic to our south,» while retaining (perhaps from connections to nature, to the history of France, and to Catholicism) a sharp, intuitive sense of what it once was like to be «premodern.»

Those in less privileged positions.

We were privileged to be in a position to allow our children to go to university after completing high school.

Speaking to some of my mates from Africa, they are disappointed with the lack of enjoyment some people in the west get from their privileged position, more so than the lack of help coming out of the west.

The same point is affirmed in Scripture regarding the privileged position of the poor, and it has been reaffirmed forcefully in recent liberation theology.

But you can't extrapolate from your * profoundly * privileged position (all things being equal) something that wouldn't have been accepted just 100 years ago (largely speaking), and something that CERTAINLY wouldn't be accepted in the vast majority of the world.

Thus the majority culture («the privileged») felt surprised that people in a minority position (in this case, some African Americans) had a different perspective on life, country and religion.

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.

Since you mentioned it, I'm glad to point that the Big Bang is just a way to dodge the facts and logic conclusions made by Edwin Hubble in his Observational Approach to Cosmology, pointing that Earth was in a privileged position, in the center of universe, which obviously has to be done for a purpose, by whoever is responsible for the Creation.