Sentence examples for entitled to define from inspiring English sources

Israel has always been a Jewish state and is entitled to define itself as such.

The obvious question: since the current definition came about through acts of Parliaments-past, why are dead MPs more entitled to define marriage than living ones?

You can only insist that homosexuality is un-African if you maintain that a few individuals are entitled to define what being African must mean.

Nobody else has lived the author's life, and she is entitled to define her sexual identity as she feels she has lived and experienced it.

As for your enforced holiday, and whether the company are entitled to make you take it, you rather answer your own question: if your contract stipulates five days of defined leave then that's what they're entitled to define - not two weeks because it's a bad year.

This is bascially how Westminster image-management works: the people who deem themselves entitled to define "leadership" pass this codified information onto the rest of us in an assured way, so that we end up seeking out and approving the same characteristics.

Anyone who meets the eligibility criteria is entitled to benefits defined in detail by federal law.

As a widow of a Morgan Stanley employee, Susan was entitled to certain defined benefits, but she had to complete extensive paperwork, and none of it had arrived.

Under the plan people would not be entitled to superfast broadband (defined as speeds of 24Mbps or higher), but they would be guaranteed fast broadband of at least 10Mbps.

In fact, he isn't even entitled to be a defining, authoritative voice in 21st-century comedy – particularly when his response to the broadening scope of his art form is one of mistrust, defensiveness and gloomy prognostication.

Second, given that our aim is to analyze retirement decisions taken by the elderly, we restrict the initial sample to people that were aged from 60 to 70 in 2006 (i.e. those born between 1936 and 1946) and that had already become entitled to a pension benefit, defined in terms of being able to prove at least 15 contributory years.