Sentence examples for basic entitlement from inspiring English sources

For years, free medical treatment was something the government threw into the "iron rice bowl" as every citizen's basic entitlement.

Unlike electricity, water is seen in most countries as a basic entitlement, if not a free good.

It would destroy the basic entitlement to essential services for a very vulnerable group of low-income people whom the states have chosen to cover".

A retroactive increase or additional benefit will not be awarded after basic entitlement has been terminated, such as by severance of service connection.

The state of school buildings needs to be honestly audited and the capital costs factored in to ensure this basic entitlement is met.

Imagine a world where school as we know it – free to all, with a wide variety of subjects – has been stripped back to a basic entitlement.

In a report just published by the APPG, it is argued that religious freedom is in danger of being treated as a "poor relation" among widely accepted basic entitlements.

"I really wanted to take an opportunity to try to help a culture that does not even have the basic entitlements such as food stamps and Medicaid," he said.

By the end of the eighteenth century, politicians in America and France were invoking the natural rights of man to wrest sovereignty away from kings and lay down universal basic entitlements.

These individual legal rights, known as "the rights of humans" (in contrast to "the rights of God" to such things as ritual obedience), included basic entitlements to life, property and legal process — the protections from arbitrary government oppression sought by people all over the world for centuries.

But Jill Levy, the union's executive vice president, said that Mr. Spence was driving a far harder bargain than that, asking the union to give up such basic entitlements as its rights to negotiate working a longer school day or year.