Right (to something)

Usage examples of entitlement.

The pattern of their striving was the career of the historical Buddha as a bodhisattva in his numerous previous lives: in each was performed some act of pre-eminent charity and self-sacrifice by which merit was accumulated and the entitlement to full Enlightenment was brought nearer.

We must either cut entitlements - the payments made to our senior citizens on Social Security, and sick people on Medicare and Medicaid - or we must cut the interest that is paid to the national debt.

That so much dissension occurred was due to the fact that the nonconsular Labienus had the best battle record by far, whereas the consular and ex-governor of Syria, Metellus Scipio, had both the legal entitlement and the blood.

It is certainly common for violent offenders, particularly sexual predators, to feel a strong conflict between inadequacy and powerlessness, and omnipotence and entitlement.

The left diverts tax dollars toward vivid visions of entitlements dancing in voters' heads.

But those who champion massive entitlements feel very comfortable on the high moral ground.

For thirty years you guys in the Democratic Party have been driving entitlements for the poor, and the poverty rate hasn't changed.

Deficit spending and the war on terrorism have drained the entitlements programs ahead of schedule, and Congress can't keep the lid on our pending bankruptcy much longer.

On top of that, the cost of Medicare was doubling every ten years and claims to other entitlements were expanding exponentially.

Just as predictably, he blamed it on the usual suspects: gridlock in Congress, the growth of entitlements, the insurmountable power of PACs, and, of course, the need to pay interest on the national debt, which had grown to something like ten trillion dollars.

The old Shah had sunk into an executive torpor, hamstrung by the system of privileges and entitlements that all too often saw the wrong men gain the power.

They could never conform to the system of approvals and entitlements that our social structure is built on.

But Terrans find meaning in life beyond whatever it is that our entitlements measure.

Over the next two weeks, I kept two of my commitments from the budget battle: I went to Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky’s district for the conference on entitlements, and I appointed Bob Kerrey as co-chair, along with Senator John Danforth of Missouri, of a commission to study Social Security and other entitlements.

He dropped the Medicaid caps, restored the food stamp entitlement.