Most Republicans would have been happy to hang the White House's decision to help pay for its health care bill with $700 billion worth of Medicare cuts around President Obama's neck without proposing any entitlement reforms of their own.
Of course those projects were compromised in various ways by cynicism and generational pandering, but the Republicans could have just as easily opted for cynicism all the way down, hammering the Obama White House's Medicare cuts without adopting any entitlement reform proposals of their own.
The full right was given to the study participants to refuse, stop and withdrawn from participation at any time during the data collection without loss of any entitlement.
It all makes you wonder: If Americans could thrive without an entitlement state a century ago, how much easier would it be today, when Americans are so rich that 95% of our poor own color TVs?
Even without any legal entitlements, some countries set up school environments for the science gifted within existing schools and in separately defined schools.
Throughout their time together, Mr. Axelrod said, Ms. Kennedy was diligent and focused and came to the table without any sense of entitlement.
In films like "The Devil Wears Prada" and "The Iron Lady," she has embodied the contradictions of female power, and she seemed to be getting at something similar in her appraisal of Thompson: an alternative to masculine authority that entails fortitude without bullying, wisdom without entitlement.
The figures also show that one in five employed women with dependent children work without any paid leave entitlements at all – twice the rate of men – while more than 40% of women but less than 15% of men work in part-time jobs, which tend to have more insecure conditions.
Both of them had all of the James entitlement without any of the talent of the older generation.
It will be impossible to get our long-run deficit under control without slowing entitlement spending.
