Sentence examples for entitlements made from inspiring English sources

Forty years ago, mandatory spending, which largely consists of entitlements, made up about a third of the federal budget.

The issue of parliamentary entitlements made headlines last year when it emerged that then Speaker of the House of Representatives, Bronwyn Bishop, had used more than $5,000 of taxpayer money to charter a helicopter to attend a Liberal party fundraiser.

However, an official evaluation of the cap by the Institute for Fiscal Studies in 2014 found the "large majority" of capped claimants did not respond by moving into work, and a DWP-backed study in Oxford published in June found that cutting benefit entitlements made it less likely that unemployed people would get a job.

Resistance among seniors to even engage in a serious discussion about entitlements makes reform poltically difficult.

The larger purpose is to assure the vast bulk of Americans left behind that they will be spared higher taxes — even though entitlements make a tax increase unavoidable.

The difficulty with executing this strategy, of course, is that the popularity of universal entitlements makes Republicans loath to touch them as well ….

Cuts to benefit entitlements make it less likely unemployed people will find a job, a government-backed employment project has found, undermining politicians' claims that docking welfare payments acts as an incentive to work.

These repeals have been explained, e.g., in terms of transportation improvements (it became easier to register marriages), the expanded system of government benefits with spousal entitlements (making it more costly for states to recognize CLM), and growth in the number of contested marriage cases (Bowman [1996]).

Obama wisely argued that the main source of future deficits comes from soaring health care costs -- as opposed to entitlements, making the case for continuing with his health care reforms.

The budget proposals released by Congressional Republicans and the White House, together with their rhetoric about what they offensively call entitlements, make it clear exactly how they plan to offset these tax giveaways: By cutting our earned Social Security and Medicare benefits.

So, only if those basic needs are fulfilled, they may be somehow able to attend to treatment for a longer period of time…" (Austria_7)" A lack of social welfare and housing entitlements makes it even more difficult for services to help IMs with mental health problems and to address their complex needs.