He lights into Lalo's "Symphonie Espagnole" with great panache and a sort of entitlement: the legendary Pablo Sarasate introduced the piece in 1875 on the very Strad Mr. Repin plays today.
His comments recalled the feeble musings of John Mayer, five years ago, when he lamented to Playboy that his level of black cred was high enough, his standing within the race so unimpeachable, that he ought to be able to toss the epithet with the same sort of entitlement as Jay Z.
"Congressional spending directives to the president contain an implicit condition that, if the money just isn't there to be spent, the president must make tough choices — prioritizing repayment of bondholders who have lent money to our country over those who have been promised payment under various sorts of entitlements, politically painful though that would be".
That is the one of the hardest questions at the interface of law and religion, because it involves a contest between two sorts of entitlement: the right of employees to band together and assert their interests, and the right of religious bodies to enforce their own rules.An important ruling on this subject was handed down today.
CAN religious believers and secularists find a consensus on what sort of human entitlements are fundamentally important and in need of protection?
Instead, in an effort to combat the concept of subsidy as a sort of artistic entitlement, Bazalgette wants to focus on Arts Council "support" as a form of cultural investment.
Yet messages like his can reek of the very sort of clueless entitlement that the tech industry is already under public barrage for.
For businesses, this kind of entitlement makes some sense.
But you have never asked for tax rises on a scale that would finance this sort of growth in entitlements, and for good reason: neither Congress nor the voters would tolerate them for a minute.You need a credible, long-term plan that will stabilise entitlement spending over the next two decades.A few first principles for such a plan: No steep cuts in the next five years.
Mr. Baucus could negotiate only the sort of reductions to entitlement spending that Republicans require with a green light from the White House and Senator Harry Reidof Nevada, the Democratic majority leader.
