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[Thai Economics Library | Archives (for history)]
October 29, 2007

Privileges

a privilege (noun) - a right, advantage, or power that few people have

have privileges
exclusive privileges
special privileges
claims to privileges

rights and privileges
revoke privileges
abuse privileges
enjoy privileges
exercise privileges
reducing privileges
legal privileges
lack privileges
extra privileges
extra pay and privileges

software secutiry privileges
user privileges
access privileges
maximum privileges
entitled to privileges
prerogative and privilege
learn of a privilege
a new privilege

pay for a privilege
pay extra for a special privilege




Example sentences:

* After he abused his privileges, he had his privileges revoked.

* "He was a vigorous proponent of policies of controlling the money supply, cutting public spending, and reducing the legal privileges of the unions."

* The mention of privileges raises two quite opposite issues: freedom and discipline.

* They've taken all his privileges away.

* You must pay quite a lot for the privilege.

* "He knew nothing but privilege."

* People who are renting a condominium here have special privileges like use of the swimming pool.

* Claims by the forest landowners and inhabitants to various rights and privileges within the forest were also investigated at the Forest Eyre.

* These should be seen as privileges rather than automatic rights.

* The privilege was later extended to his widow.

* She was allowed one privilege that was reserved for very, very few.

* He had the special privilege of wearing the organisation's elite insignia on all his shirts.

* "His lovers are not themselves patricians; they are poor, they are working class, they are black, they lack his privileges; they are young and once their looks have gone they are expendable."

* Here, privileges are plentiful.

* Who could complain about spending at least 20 months as a Sergeant with the extra pay and privileges.

* "It had the glamour that attaches to other people's privileges; Barbara did not resent the lack of advantages her own parents had given her, but she wanted those advantages for her own children."

* At Stamford aristocratic landlords fought for their archaic political privileges against the townspeople.

* "I believe that it is ironic that the IRA and its supporters should at the same time be enjoying the privileges of democracy and using the methods of terrorism."

* Privileges granted to senior party members had been removed in December of last year.

* Education is one of the privileges that bureaucrats increasingly are able to pass on to their offspring.

* "This user has access privileges to all of these modules at any time."

* "He has the maximum privileges over the system as a whole, including creating new users."

* Regular members are not entitled to the privileges of lifetime members.

* It was a power and a privilege.

* "He gazed at the neatly trimmed lawns and hedges with jealousy in his eyes. The private estate was a symbol of a world from which he was excluded, a world of privilege and snobbery, a world that had turned its back on the poor, the sick and the unfashionable."



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