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  • An added comment, I was around when the industry starting cracking down on the freebies because the privilage was being abused.

    How Much? 2006

  • Then, as Blair hinted at but should have shouted, yesterday, NOW is our opportunity and we have great minds like the venerable Sir Roderick Lyne amongst us .... so, let's use that "privilage" and get them to pontificate re the way forward in the HERE and NOW, boys!!

    Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

  • He is also in favour of ID cards and I am sure that he will be claiming the cost back through expenses unlike the rest of us who will have to pay for the "privilage" of an ID card.

    Archive 2008-11-01 FIDO The Dog 2008

  • I think for White women this is true most of the time, except when they are beneficiaries of their racial privilage which is a lot of the time too.

    This Is Not Tawana Brawley 2006

  • The reason women’s colleges are different from the rest of the world is because we manage to escape our so-called privilage and be seen as individuals.

    The IWF and their skills of exposing the “evil feminist gender-switching agenda” strikes again! 2005

  • Yes these men may be U.S. citizens on paper, however when they crossed the line and decided to do damage to this country they gave that "privilage" up!

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local OpenMinded 2010

  • Yes these men may be U.S. citizens on paper, however when they crossed the line and decided to do damage to this country they gave that "privilage" up!

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local OpenMinded 2010

  • Can you imagine the uproar when the judge is forced to toss the confession because of the manner in which it was obtained? dude_chill wrote: Props to the FBI for doing what the Army cannot: catching terrorists before they attack America. horse7 wrote: Yes these men may be U.S. citizens on paper, however when they crossed the line and decided to do damage to this country they gave that "privilage" up!

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local OpenMinded 2010

  • I Sent out Several hunters and fowlers in pursute Elk, Deer, or fowls of any kind. wind hard from the S W The Waves high & look dismal indeed breaking with great fury on our beech an Indian canoe pass down to day loaded with Wap-pa-toe roots; Several Indians came up to day from below, I gave them Smoke but allowed them no kind of privilage whatever in the camp, they with the 4 which came down yesterday encamped a Short distance from us.

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

  • "forced his ex-girlfriend into his car and threatened to kill her with a screwdriver" an example of any kind of privilage?

    Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines 2009

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