Sentence examples for personal entitlement from inspiring English sources

And an ill or disabled person who has a working spouse or has savings will lose their personal entitlement to benefits after a year.

In the money-driven context of American politics, the perks of incumbency can transform into a sense of personal entitlement as V.I.P. back-slappers relentlessly donate and entreat their way into a grateful politician's inner circle.

What this means is that a disabled or seriously sick person who has a working spouse, however low-paid their job may be, will lose their personal entitlement to benefits after a year.

"Meh" was obnoxious: the sound of personal entitlement and sneery dismissal; the noise a spoiled child emperor makes when the pyramid his slaves have built turns out to be half a metre lower than he expected.

The law, often called the Buckley Amendment, was intended to operate "at the systemwide level, not the individual level" and did not create a personal entitlement to compliance, Patricia A. Millett, an assistant solicitor general, told the court.

The movie's yuppie monster, versions of which you may have already met in "Sleeping With the Enemy" and "American Psycho," is a handsome, homicidal rageoholic and control freak named Mitch Billy Campbelll), who operates with an unlimited sense of personal entitlement.

Accepting money from a Chinese donor to pay out an overspend in personal entitlements, and a legal bill, suggests you don't know where to draw important lines.

"I don't believe there was a frank, transparent discussion about what you were proposing to change around your personal entitlements with the staffing committee, and if the committee is not going to be run in that way we'll consider our participation in it and we'll deal with things in a different way," she said.

They describe the social, economic, political and personal entitlements which flow from this belonging-ness.

Contribution in time of earning would provide income when earnings cease in a personal pot of entitlement.

But to the Boomers, driven by a sense of entitlement, personal needs are more important and they expect them delivered on a platter.