Sentence examples for despite being entitled from inspiring English sources

This was despite being entitled to both the maximum maintenance loan and maximum maintenance grant as a student from a low-income family.

Despite being entitled to get on the flight she refused, insisting she would not leave the rest of the patrol without a medic.

Short, who has left the Labour party, was said to have claimed the full cost of her mortgage for two and a half years, despite being entitled to charge only for the interest, the Daily Telegraph said.

A spokesman for the police chief of Laghman province told the BBC that the acting director did not have bodyguards with her, despite being entitled to them.

Sudbury did not take promotion at any of these opportunities, despite being entitled to.

For example, children who are born to Saudi mothers despite being entitled to education at primary, secondary and undergraduate levels and have a right to work are not citizens with unqualified rights of residency or state pensions, unlike children born to Saudi fathers.

This is why EU citizens who have lived here for decades, and are now applying for UK citizenship but neglect to include their passports (not actually a requirement, but a handy excuse familiar to anyone who has dealt with the Home Office), are not only having their applications rejected, they're being told to prepare to leave the UK, despite already being entitled to permanent residency.

"Venezuela is waiting for the national government to provide information about what happened in Haiti with the two detainees with diplomatic passports," he said in one tweet, referring to reports that they were traveling with diplomatic papers despite not being entitled to them.

He said despite the government holding a 40% share in Actis, and being entitled to 80% of its profits, it had not seen a penny.

In the court's view, the plain language of the statute seemed "to support Plaintiff's argument that he, despite his age, is entitled to apply personally for asylum".

Artists are entitled -- despite the arguments of Napster and its defenders -- to a property interest in their work for a reasonable period of time.