Sentence examples for entitlements now from inspiring English sources

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Unlike most other Republicans, she pledged in an interview last week to "reform entitlements now, not five years from now".

"The reason employers are paying additional leave entitlements now is to give employees additional reasons to work for them".

Benefits are not entitlements now but handouts, and a claimant doesn't need to be fraudulent to be perceived as scamming the system.

It's no mystery why discretionary spending has been squeezed: spending on entitlements now takes up almost two thirds of the federal budget.

Taxes on the rich (those earning $250,000 a year or more) will go up from next January, as the Bush tax cuts expire; but Mr Obama had promised middle America that it will pay "not one single dime" more in tax, and so he is extending George Bush's budget-busting tax cuts for the remaining 98% of Americans.Any serious attempt to tackle entitlements now looks doomed.

Mackenzie Eaglen of the Heritage Foundation writes that "entitlements now account for around 65percentt of all federal spending and a record 18percentt of GDP".

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Nobody saw good air quality as an entitlement; now people's ideology has changed.

With the greater opportunities being afforded female athletes, it should be no surprise that an outsize sense of entitlement now extends to the women.

At home its cult of secrecy, hazy pan-Islamic agenda and sense that it rules by entitlement now provoke suspicion and resentment even among many fellow Islamists.Whatever its specific focus, the mounting unrest presents an increasingly dangerous challenge to Egypt's battered and creaking state.

You could see such even-handedness as a lack of ruthlessness, as part of a broader Labour tentativeness in office, a tentativeness that caused Tony Blair to govern cautiously in the late 90s, despite a majority of 179 – whereas Cameron governs with a sense of entitlement now, despite a majority of 12.

"Entitlements" are now administered from afar and without discrimination between the deserving and the undeserving poor that is, those who are willing to work and those who are unwilling.

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