Power is the key to change but also it tends to be temporary privilege for those people in power.
Mr Ahern's legal team also rejected the tribunal's claims that there can be no privilege over the communications as it is inquisitorial and not adversarial.
He said having access to a TV should be a privilege that is earned and he did not approve of prisons buying "state-of-the-art" kit when most people outside of prison had to make sacrifices to buy them.
To allow the Lago Agrio plaintiffs to waive privilege expansively for favorable documents and information as part of a public relations campaign and then shield related documents behind the screen of privilege would be to allow the use of privilege and the work product doctrine as both sword and shield, an abuse that courts have discouraged.
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Employees on the other hand should be thankful for the privilege of having gainful employment, and be grateful for any bonus compensation received.
It is good to be back in Newton, and it's a privilege to be here at Trinity Structural Towers.
Labour MP John Mann said it was "nonsense" that the documents would be protected by privilege.
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Auto-mobility is a huge gift to policy makers, and they'd be right to privilege it.
Are brokerages especially trustworthy that they should be permitted the privilege of self-regulation when these other financial institutions are not?
Leading the agency in which I served for 25 years would be the greatest privilege as well as the greatest responsibility of my professional life.
"I believe that a pope should have a term limit or be given the privilege to resign from office, if he can't do his various duties effectively anymore due to health reasons or old age, " he said.
Revoking such benefits is a delicate task: When the City of London, home to much of Britain's financial industry, abruptly axed free electric-car parking in 2008, angry petitions circulated among drivers demanding the privilege be restored, arguing that many of them bought the small, expensive cars mainly to get the free parking.
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Sources familiar with the position of the Secret Service in the dispute tell CNN that Director Lewis Merletti told Starr and other independent counsel staffers, in a February briefing, that should his agents be denied the privilege, "we will lose a president of the United States to assassination" and that trust and confidence between the protective service and its protectees will be lost.
"But the real problem is that in the absence of comprehensive immigration reform, you're asking the state, you're asking officials of the state, like the people of the department of motor vehicles, to, in effect, ratify someone who is not here legally as someone who is going to be given a privilege, a document from the state, and, you know, it just didn't bear up under a lot of scrutiny, " she explained.
More public events would be covered by "qualified privilege", so that a fair and accurate report of them would be protected from defamation actions - so the protection applied to reporting what is said at local council meetings, would be applied to, for example, the proceedings of scientific conferences.
They also tend to be white, and richer than the typical American criminal: those traits should confer no privilege, nor be seen to confer any, when sentence is passed.
And so, now, it is a pleasure and a privilege to be here myself.
"Denis MacShane's letter to the committee cannot be disclosed under parliamentary privilege" he said.
Is a year-end bonus a right of entitlement or a privilege to be earned?
That privilege would be withdrawn only if they didn't submit new capital plans that satisfy the Fed.
"It has been a great privilege to be Scotland's first commissioner for children and young people, " said Ms Marshall.
It is a privilege to be with you, on a very personal level.
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Her winningly chipmunk-cheeked smile is doled out sparingly, a privilege to be earned, rather than an icebreaker or an entreaty.
"What a great privilege to be at the controls of such a great airplane on its first flight, " said Feuerstein.
He said it was a privilege to be asked to lead the company and he looked forward to building on Mr Kloppers' legacy.
Lieutenant Colonel Colin Weir said while it was a privilege to be back home, their thoughts were with their colleagues who had not returned.
It is a privilege to be part of this life-giving organization.
"It has always been my belief that it is an honor and a privilege to be the head coach of the New York Giants, " Coughlin said through the team.
The White House said that when the threat of impeachment exists, conversations with government lawyers inherently involve official duties and responsibilities and therefore should be protected by the privilege.
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