Sentence examples for entitlement democracy from inspiring English sources

His stated mission as a writer, speaker, and commentator is to "Chronicle the decline and fall of entitlement democracy," a task he pursues with a smile and a cocktail.

The Hong Kong protesters' assertion of their entitlement to democracy is alien and almost sanctimonious to their mainland counterparts, for whom economic stability is the value to be safeguarded and political involvement is as frivolous an indulgence as the Louis Vuitton bags that tourists go to Hong Kong to purchase.

In social democracy, entitlement is equal, and arises from citizenship, though one-size-fits-all sometimes creates its own problems.

In a democracy, it seems an entitlement so basic as to hardly warrant controversy.

The intersection of public and private--middle-class entitlement programs--have tended to support economic democracy, namely more equitable distribution of the wealth.

Democracies are inventive and averse to entitlement.

"Getting a handle on entitlements" means cutting Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps and the rest of the things that We, the People do for each other -- the things we are entitled to as citizens in a democracy.

Her vision was of a quasi-anarchic democracy, with minimal taxes, limited government, and no entitlements, regulated only by the principle of personal responsibility.

Elites hate "entitlements" -- those things we all are entitled to as are citizens in a We-the-People democracy.

Republicans, in turn, are denouncing the expansion of a Democratic "entitlement society" and what they see as a trend toward European social democracy.

It has entrenched the entitlement of power and privilege above that of the aspiration to any true democracy.