privilege
In approaching their prospects, network marketers enjoy the privilege of
exploiting the element of intimacy by reducing the potential threat to their prospects'
negative face. From the Cambridge English Corpus
They were mutually dedicated to
reforming institutions and removing privileges that they regarded as impediments to
growth and stability. From the Cambridge English Corpus
There is a danger that
reflexivity could be used to privilege a theoretical or methodological standpoint by
contrasting it to an unreflexive counterpart. From the Cambridge English Corpus
More
indirectly, these two stylistic dimensions mark different epistemic relations to the
discourse, emphasizing and privileging different kinds of information. From the
Cambridge English Corpus
The resources that are directed to this purpose give this
community privileged access to the material evidence of the past. From the Cambridge
English Corpus
It turns out that under certain circumstances, a maximin egalitarian
case for seniority privileges could be made. From the Cambridge English Corpus
Such
arrangements, enacted without the customary familial negotiations, usurped the
privileges of parents and their ability to protect their family lineage, stability, and
honour. From the Cambridge English Corpus
Do artists whose work is most respected come
from, and appeal to, privileged social groups? From the Cambridge English Corpus
In
this manner, the use of an alien aesthetic functions analogously to a camp aesthetic
that subverts claim to artistic privilege or autonomy. From the Cambridge English
Corpus
The former was embodied in the sovereign whose privilege it was to decide on the
existence of human life. From the Cambridge English Corpus
Both examples suggest a
culturalpolitical logic - unwritten, fluid, but influential - which leaves some
indigenous organisations privileged and others all but excluded. From the Cambridge
English Corpus
But the "manufacture," privileged by the state institutions, need not be
afraid of competition, for it relies on royal subsidies, import restrictions, and
monopolistic privileges. From the Cambridge English Corpus
Second, administrators
refers to heads of non-profit organizations, and their power and privileges lie in the
public properties under their control. From the Cambridge English Corpus
Silently, they
repudiated humanity's lingering claims to special privilege inside a universe no longer
ordered by theology. From the Cambridge English Corpus
The importance of voice for the
legitimacy of social structures of constraint privileges democratic deliberation over
evaluation as contained in market processes. From the Cambridge English Corpus
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