Sentence examples for entitlements a from inspiring English sources

In previous budgets he offered to trim entitlements a bit in return for tax increases.

In Slimani's appraisal, the emotional marketplace has rendered basic human entitlements a luxury.

Here's another definition, from Merriam-Webster: Entitlements: A government program providing benefits to members of a specified group.

But that would have required trimming some of the bill's lavish entitlements, a step few senators were prepared to take.

This seems among the most reasonable proposals to slow the rising cost of entitlements, a corrective that would seem wise for other government programs as well.

Programs of social insurance have become "entitlements," a word apparently meant to signify not a collectively provided and cherished basis for family-income security, but a sinister threat to our national well-being.

Nevertheless, Republicans have made entitlements an abhorrence; something to attack and destroy.

Modern politics made "entitlement" a dirty word.

Protection against discrimination, it would seem, now counts as an entitlement — a loaded word these days.

("Okwui has always had this regal sense of entitlement," a friend says).

But in Europe, the mantle of chief executive officer comes almost with a sense of entitlement, a job for life.