Sentence examples for natural entitlement from inspiring English sources

According to Kennedy, the US in its heydey enjoyed an extraordinary 40% of the world's wealth & power, whereas its natural entitlement is around 18%.

Obsessed with yesterday's struggle and crippled by an outdated vanity, we may shrivel, and find ourselves playing a role beneath our natural entitlement.

For conservatives who rely on the subjugation of women to retain a sense of "natural" entitlement to authority, the state's defence of female autonomy must be terrifying.

Lacking Berners's wit, charm and talent, but equally sure of the natural entitlement of his class, he represents something uglier than the pink and lilac doves and delicate cooking at Faringdon.

In some quarters, it has been excused as the literary equivalent of the droit du seigneur -- the natural entitlement of the most talented or the most popular writers who can have their way with whatever material happens to seize their fancy.

The intensity of today's focus on the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11 testifies to more than the multiplication of media ravenous for content, and to more than today's unhistorical and self-dramatizing tendency to think that eruptions of evil are violations of a natural entitlement to happiness.

Natural resource entitlements have been debated through the millennia as intensely as genetic data ownership is debated today.

In the complex psychology of the super-rich, victimhood is a natural concomitant to entitlement.

This is a direct rebuke not only of defenders of the divine right of kings, but also of most accounts of natural rights as entitlements that were embraced by many seventeenth-century theorists.

The masses don't realise that these good works are their entitlement, the natural functions of a government.

Children often have a natural impatient sense of entitlement, self-gratification and self-absorption.