Sentence examples for human entitlements from inspiring English sources

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

CAN religious believers and secularists find a consensus on what sort of human entitlements are fundamentally important and in need of protection?

5. Citizens should demand and receive the human entitlements of universal healthcare, livable Social Security, and free public college all made affordable by a miniscule, hardly noticeable dedicated transaction tax (less than 1%) on all stock bond and derivative transfers (trillions per week).

These include anthropological or ethnographic accounts which draw attention to contextually specific articulations of human entitlements [ 21].

The state must discharge its responsibility as guarantor and regulator of education as a fundamental human entitlement and as a public cause.

Let's focus purely on religious freedom, which is the main concern of Erasmus, and is by most people's lights an important human entitlement.

Interviewed by Terry Gross of National Public Radio, he called Avatar a satire on the sense of human entitlement: "[Avatar] is saying our attitude about indigenous people and our entitlement about what is rightfully theirs is the same sense of entitlement that lets us bulldoze a forest and not blink an eye.

The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a highly influential account of all human beings' basic entitlements and this document often plays an important role in real world debates about justice matters.

"That annoying buzzer goes off and everybody runs up to put their shins against that metal carousel rim and forms that human wall of entitlement, with people who were not so fast trying to peek through the wall and jockey for position," he said.

Western success had just as much to do with the fact the Cold War was first and foremost an ideological fight which required countering the Soviet's capture of the moral high-ground on issues like basic human equality and entitlement to freedom-from-want.

Politicians, primarily Republicans in Congress, have proposed the passage and enactment of a "Balanced Budget" amendment, a "Marriage Protection" (only one man and one woman) amendment to the Constitution, plus numerous budgets over the years ending or reducing human services and entitlement programs.