He maintained that the powerful invented laws to preserve their privileges and to control the poor and discontented; therefore it would be stupid to obey them.
I think we're in a nest of greedy, self-centred, corrupt old men, of whom at least one would stick at nothing to preserve his privileges.
The armed forces, while watching the civilian power struggle in silence, are no less eager to preserve their enormous privileges.
They know that the best way to preserve their privileges is to ensure that the people they steal from don't know what's going on.
The talks are viewed as a litmus test of whether German auto workers can preserve their privileges in the fiercely competitive global car industry.
The noble Rothsattel family represents the old nobility, who try to preserve their privileges in a changing society.
It is fighting to preserve its privileges and its pensions.
Liberals want to preserve the system and their privileges by bribing some sections of the proletariat with minor reforms.
Fannie Mae has always preserved its lucrative privileges in part because it's a pretty obscure agency.
"Pardon me - he enforces impartial justice from peasant or patrician; but he preserves to the nobles all their just privileges and legal rank."
