This has a strangely normative ring to it, a privileging, natural enough, of the waking condition.

Phonocentricism consists in a privileging of speech over writing.

These policies effectively allowed for the privileging of British migrants over all others through the first decades of the 20th century.

At a time when people comparison-shop for almost everything, Citigroup's privileging of convenience seems oddly outdated.

It restricted non-white immigration to Australia and allowed for the privileging of British migrants over all others.

The realist privileging of the military is challenged both in the approach to security and in the conceptualization of state power.

He felt that the abstract space they had created had destroyed social space through alienation, separation, and a privileging of the eye.

But the oppositions are artificial in the first place, and the Christian privileging of one half - the "good" half - is wholly chimerical.

The only time the authors attack passionately and in detail the privileging of whiteness is when such practices are located safely in the past.

This naturalises the privileging of heterosexuality.

A necessary precondition for individuals in a somatocentric system is the privileging of sight over other senses in perceiving reality.

In identifying the modernist privileging of technical responses to madness and distress as a primary problem, postpsychiatry has looked to postmodernist thought for insights.

The rejection of post-Kantian privileging of human existence over the existence of nonhuman objects.

"These days," she writes, "censorship occurs less through explicit state policy than through official and unofficial privileging of powerful groups and viewpoints.

This is what the deconstructionists mean by the "privileging" of a given tradition, and Mr. Bloom performs all the mystification typical of such special pleading.

The conservatism of the then-provincial government, and the privileging of Catholic values contributed to Quebec being the last province in which women received the provincial franchise.

Mobilities incorporates mobile theorization and methodologies to avoid the privileging of, "notions of boundedness and the sedentary"

In The New Yorker, James Wood criticized the book as being "imprecise", arguing that its privileging of "reality" over traditional fiction was "highly problematic."

Furthermore, Mr. Bonnefoy's brief remark implies a privileging of the Greco-Christian tradition that characterizes much Western scholarship.

The vast amounts of evidence that contradict the theist world-view make it difficult to see any religious thought as anything but fundamentalist privileging of the ill-defined 'transcendental'.

Also in 1989, Ursula King notes thealogy's growing usage as a fundamental departure from traditional male-oriented theology, characterized by its privileging of symbols over rational explanation.

As I shall explain in the next section, this earlier privileging of intellect was intimately connected with resistance to nominalism, and, in the seventeenth century nominalism triumphed.

An aspect of this formulation has been the privileging of "Blackness" in all its possible forms rather than as relevant to a single, perhaps monolithic definition of black culture.

The layout of the cycle with the illustrations on the recto and the text on the verso suggests the privileging of the illustrations over the text.

Most Parliaments in the world today are made up primarily of men; therefore there may be some androcentric bias (a privileging of male experiences and perspectives) in law-making.

And the privilege is not available to the little guy at all.

The answer is making health care a right instead of a privilege.

Nothing but the privilege of working with her more often next year.

"They have the same rights and privileges as any other student."

An America in which health care is a right, not a privilege.

Four years ago he did not want special privileges for his family.

I believe being an American is a privilege, not a right.

You are talking about a country of power, privilege and class.

To be here at the end is almost a privilege.

Men of privilege always felt like they were above the law.

He said people could even become members and get some special privileges.

I did so, and was given all privileges without question.

And to most people, such support is seen as a right, not a privilege.

"Just being in the same room with her is a privilege."

I only have the privilege to try to make it better.

It was a privilege to know and learn from you.

And what's more, he will pay them for the privilege.

And what a privilege it has been to do so.

He had never run away before when given this privilege.

What is Man that we might be party to such privilege?

Few of us are likely to give up that privilege.

In return for that privilege, you give up some rights.

It was our privilege to work with him for many years.

And now it's my privilege to take some of your questions.

"At least they have the privilege of always living here."

They are privileging one bit of information over another.

As a result, the painter exercised precision in outline, privileging the figure.

However, prescription also involves conscious choices, privileging some existing forms over others.

Social mores privileging women of Spanish descent had tacit support from church and state.

In contrast to the first film, they are careful to talk about religion in general rather than privileging one faith.

It is here that the Marxian stance of privileging the economic base is evident.

Which of society's values is furthered by privileging lethal alcohol and tobacco over much safer drugs?

Some in the local media criticized his platform as simplistic, and as privileging business interests over social concerns.

Since I'm not a post-structuralist, I have no trouble "privileging" one point of view - mine - above others at this particular moment.

Nonetheless, society has a legitimate interest in privileging those heterosexual unions that are oriented toward the generation and rearing of children.

In 1994, he accused the provincial government of privileging doctors over other health professionals in its plans for health care reform.

Scholars have recently been privileging cultural history over social history, with the language and self images of people the chief targets of research.

This work has been criticized, however, for privileging the Leopold land ethic as a norm in reference to which such alternative environmental ethics are evaluated.

Far from privileging authorial discourse, such writing submits the figure of the author and his/her subjectivity to intense scrutiny.

Privileging the Past.

These concepts require self-reflection for their meaning to be grasped, which necessarily leads to an ontology privileging the individual as a knowing subject.

Its current focus is on the genetic basis of development and evolution of complex systems, privileging hypothesis-driven organism-centred approaches.

Undergraduate classroom teaching in which the "weedout" practices and policies privileging competition over cooperation tend to advantage men.

It blames their sickness upon misbehaviors, while at the same time it rationalizes privileging the well over the ill.

As such, postmodernism is a linear projection, a natural conclusion to modernity; and by privileging secularism it has become an arch ideology."

Privileging Asymmetric Warfare?

In 2002, a law privileging bereaved families took effect, and the Mangwol-dong cemetery was elevated to the status of a national cemetery.

By defining time in this way Aristotle is privileging what is present-at-hand, namely the 'presence' of time.

Although Carter's is shorter, he manages to touch on the major theoretical preconceptions which underlie current pedagogical applications of stylistics without obviously privileging any one.

Some men in the movement argue that the movement excludes the issues and perspectives of fat men whilst privileging those of women.