For most members of the defense establishment, military life offers less status than does a civilian occupation with a major corporation.

Employers strongly support the provision that would offer legal status to illegal immigrants.

The president's plan would offer legal status to millions of illegal workers.

But the program did not offer legal status to these spouses and children.

For Linda it offered continued social status and a partner who was the antithesis of her abusive first husband.

It would offer temporary legal status to an estimated three million Mexican laborers.

The law also established an amnesty program that offered legal status to several million aliens.

Having children enabled the inheritance of land, which offered security and status.

They believed that the flag's power would be transferred to them, offering status and protection.