Sentence examples for entitlements in a from inspiring English sources

I would also offer a caveat to Garrett's point about the political unsustainability of entitlements in a weak economy.

"What came out of the election that was useful was that we could talk about entitlements in a thoughtful manner," Mr. Dent said.

After all, you can't sustain entitlements in a country where middle incomes continue to fall, jobs grow more scarce, and tax collections continue at their current anemic pace.

But it didn't rise from the wonky mire until 1982, when, as John H. Makin and Norman J. Ornstein note, in their 1994 book, "Debt and Taxes," President Reagan, who had always referred to government programs for the old, the sick, and the poor as the "Social Security net," renamed them "entitlements," in a speech to a Jaycee convention.

Toyota will challenge a court ruling that barred it from asking its workers to sacrifice wages and entitlements in an effort to slash costs at its Melbourne plant.

Takeaway also ruled on entitlements: in 1983 a bipartisan deal led to cuts in future Social Security (pensions), a gradual increase in the retirement age and a higher payroll tax.

He is also reminding people why they have reservations about Mrs Clinton not least her habit of wrapping a sense of entitlement in a feminist garment.

Chinalco, Rio's top shareholder, took up its full entitlement in a sign it is far from severing ties with Rio.

Shining India would catch up China and become a superpower, a "tiger", and the middle classes would get their proper entitlement in a society where there was no middle.

"Not one euro to be sacrificed to the bankers!" In Greece, commentators said the economic problems had exposed a general ignorance about the harsh realities of the global economy, while laying bare the strong sense of entitlement in a country where one out of three Greeks is employed in a civil service that guarantees jobs for life.

"Not one euro to be sacrificed to the bankers!" In Greece, commentators said the economic problems had exposed a general ignorance about the harsh realities of the global economy, while laying bare the strong sense of entitlement in a country where one out of three people is employed in a civil service that guarantees jobs for life.