Sentences with phrase «so privileged a position»

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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.

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?

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.

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.

So when Paul writes what he does in Romans 3:9 - 20, he is writing a warning to believers in Rome about becoming proud of their privileged position before God.

We have a very privileged industry position, over the years we have unfortunately been privy to a number of technical / quality challenges (none more so than bottled wine but different in their occurrence).

«People would be saying: «Pull yourself together and be grateful for it» and I understood the position I was in, the privileged position I was in, but I just found it so hard and I couldn't deal with it any more.

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.

'' 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.

It's about respect for the people, their development.We go to school so we can give back to society one day and help the less privileged and not prove to them how intelligent and superior we are when we are in a position of authority.»

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.

So far Silver Linings has placed Lawrence and Cooper in privileged positions for Academy Award nominations and not unlikely is the possibility of the film getting recognition in the Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and of course Best Director categories.

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.

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

And on the other hand, those who are the most responsible are pushing all of us, even those who are used to a relatively privileged position, into the same boat as the poor, the minorities and so forth.

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).