Sentences with phrase «as the entitlement of»

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Every day another jerk emerges as the latest poster boy of ego and entitlement, someone who can't figure out how to keep his hands to himself and / or his ugly mouth shut.

Whereas some people regard a comfortable retirement as a natural entitlement, for a growing number this is not the case,» Christine Foyster, head of Wealth Management at HSBC, said in the report published on Wednesday.

Because of my own work these past few years with organizations and individuals who are in some form or fashion working to address inequality, I have come to understand that many of the initiatives that are often described as entitlements or preferential treatment are usually neither.

BCRA - A would satisfy hard - line conservatives by all - but - eliminating a health coverage entitlement; BCRA - B would be a kindler, gentler version that would keep some widely liked Obamacare provisions (such as ensuring affordable coverage for those with pre-existing conditions), trim Medicaid more gradually, and win the support of teetering moderates.

The old way of vacations, because it was seen as the «amount of days off that I have to use before they expire» was taken with an overwhelming sentiment of entitlement, and many things fell through the cracks when a team member went off on vacation for a week.

As part of the heads of agreement, Clough will assume responsibility for the jobs and entitlements of the HWE employees currently working on the project.

Though the jury is still out as to whether managers can increase employee entitlement (I think it can), some research hints that playing into the behavior of entitled people makes the problem much worse.

«We will fight to defend them because they are about the health and economic security of America's working families, and we will not use Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security as an ATM machine for the Republicans to give tax breaks to their wealthy friends and corporate America,» House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said at her year - end press conference, signaling that Democrats would not support cuts to Social Security and other entitlements.

As generation Y becomes an increasingly key part of the workforce, companies are complaining about the expectations of their youngest employees — and their unabashed sense of entitlement.

The Republican also noted the political risks of going after entitlements during a contentious election, as is expected in 2018, while House Speaker Paul Ryan has suggested it could be a primary GOP agenda item.

But as a psychologist, I am deeply worried about the rapidly escalating levels of anger in our world — what's particularly disturbing is our increasing sense of entitlement to express it in aggressive or hurtful ways.

The closure of Hydro - Quebec's Gentilly - 2 nuclear power plant temporarily lowers Quebec's fiscal capacity, as measured under the Equalization program, which in turn lowers Ontario's Equalization entitlement over a three - year period.

Instead of financing Social Security and Medicare out of progressive taxes levied on the highest income brackets — mainly the FIRE sector — the dream of privatizing these entitlement programs is to turn this tax surplus over to financial managers to bid up stock and bond prices, much as pension - fund capitalism did from the 1960s onward.

«We can't look at these policies as being an entitlement, or a right, that we have,» says York University professor of human resource management Souha Ezzedeen.

Her «perceived sense of entitlement and self - appointed role as family spokesperson» in the documentary upset Buffett beyond reproach.

The Liberals received the final payback for decades of arrogance and, as Jack Layton so resonantly put it during the English debate, sense of entitlement.

The ratings agency Moody's maintained the US's top - notch «Aaa» credit rating Thursday, saying, «The diversity, dynamism, and competitiveness of the US economy, along with the US dollar's status as the preeminent international reserve currency and very large size and depth of the US Treasury market, offset rising fiscal pressures stemming from aging - related entitlement spending, higher debt - service payments, and recent policy actions that will likely reduce future revenues and increase expenditures.»

It also sidesteps key elements of the state that Trump has pledged to maintain or expand, such as the Defense Department, Medicare and Social Security, two huge federal entitlement programs.

With a sense of entitlement and complacence, businesses are satisfied with «business as usual,» and rarely make thorough investigations into moving their business forward.

«It is very odd to see Uber as the only app (I checked tens of thousands of other apps using my company's internal data set derived from the App Store) besides Apple's own apps granted access to this sensitive entitlement,» Strafach said in an email.

Still, they have important implications for public policy as it pertains to underfunded old - age entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, as well as the tax treatment of retirement plans and savings accounts.

Donna Kennedy - Glans (Calgary - Varsity) The first - term MLA left the PC caucus earlier this week, blasting what she described as a culture of entitlement.

Blasting the culture of entitlement that has engulfed the 43 - year governing Progressive Conservative Party, Calgary - Varsity MLA Donna Kennedy - Glans announced on Monday that she was leaving the government caucus to sit as an Independent MLA.

A fractional stock is less than one full stock, and can arise as a result of a Corporate Action entitlement calculation.

Kenney faces another potential liability — that, as unpopular as the Notley NDP is, voters also don't want a swift return to the arrogance and entitlement of the old Alberta Tory regime.

Reforming and, to tell the truth, trimming entitlements has to be presented as an unfortunate necessity, and not as a new birth of freedom.

But Catholic teaching typically explains a hierarchy of public issues, prioritizing marriage and sanctity of life, for example, which are intrinsic to Christian faith, over important but less theologically binding issues of prudential judgment, such as federal entitlement programs or immigration.

There is often a great deal of talk about opposing a sense of victimhood and entitlement — which most people in my neighborhood would probably agree with — but we must recognize that people are still being victimized by police brutality and other forms of trauma; they are entitled to both the basic necessities of life as well as opportunities to provide those and more for themselves.

Power is probably the worst kind of pride, it engenders a sense of entitlement and views people and the world's animals, plants, and resources as expendable.

But as shocking and painful as all these losses were, my instinctive response shocked me even more: the rage, the blame - shifting, the thirst for revenge, the bitter arrogance, the self - justified resentment, the dark self - righteousness, the control - hungry manipulation, the deluded rationalization, the deep selfishness, the perverted sense of entitlement.

It seems to me that as Western Christians we suffer from a bad case of entitlement.

We increase the number of homeless shelters and food pantries, restore the welfare entitlement, build more prison cells, and write off a substantial part of the population as permanently incapable of citizenship.

As the body of Christ, our only entitlement is to Jesus Christ Himself, who asks us specifically to love our neighbor.

Yes you can find angry people as rent seekers not wanting to pay for out - of - wedlock babies, but no one wants to say «no» to one's own grandmother who has paid into this so - called entitlement as a liability underwritten by the U.S. government.

Congress expanded Medicare by adding a prescription - drug entitlement that will cost hundreds of billions of dollars, and federal education spending has gone up as well.

Rather than begrudging the ambition of the Sons of Entitlement, then, might I engage them with respect and love, as Jesus did, while working to refocus their ambition on the cross?

Including rosters of the dead in the design of memorials can be persuasively advocated as a matter of democratic entitlement as well as a source of consolation.

People who think homosexuals should not have special legal entitlements as a minority group, parents who do not want their eight - year - olds instructed in the use of condoms, those who insist that abortion is very bad for unborn children and their mothers — bigots one and all.

Maybe, or maybe he too is caught up in a great and as yet undecided civic debate on the role and limits of government in questions of debt, taxes, public spending, entitlements, and tax codes.

What conservatives and libertarians are most animated about nowadays is the abuse of public - good authority, particularly as such authority has been misused for a very long time to tax and spend, not generally on public goods like defense but on wealth - transfer programs, such as social security, Medicare and Medicaid, and other entitlements — the kinds of programs, in other words, that have effectively bankrupted Greece, are threatening to bankrupt several other European nations, and are undermining the European Monetary Union.

Rather, it was largely the result of the federal government shouldering increased responsibilities for entitlement programs such as Social Security payments and workmen's compensation, for education, and for infrastructural services such as roads and hospitals.

In this particular instance it is not very difficult to imagine scenarios in the not - too - distant future in which there might occur resurgences of socialist policies and ideals: the failure of neo-capitalist regimes in developing societies and / or the formerly Communist countries in Europe to achieve economic take - off; the insight granted to sundry dictators and despots that, while socialism invariably immiserates the masses, it is a very good recipe for enriching those who claim to hold power as the vanguard of the masses; the «creeping socialism» (still an aptly descriptive term) brought on by massive government intervention in the economy in the name of some societal good, e.g., there could be an environmentalist road to socialism, or a feminist one, or one constructed (perhaps inadvertently) with some other building blocks of politically managed regulations and entitlements; or, last but not least, the actual restoration of socialism, by coup or by voting, in a number of countries, beginning with Russia.

American liberals need conservatives to be racist as justification for resisting change to the status quo of our government in terms of social programs and «entitlement» spending.

A form of governance for cyberspace that takes equal entitlement to its resources seriously requires far reaching changes of the current political practices in such areas as development assistance, transfer of technology, intellectual property protection, and space cooperation.

As I thought about how to apply these teachings practically, a lot of strategies came to mind — putting the needs of others before my own, buying less and giving more, humbling myself when engaged in political or theological debates, embracing rather than complaining about those «one - way relationships,» praying for others more sincerely, saying «yes» a little more often, working on that ubiquitous sense of entitlement and pride that keeps me from going the extra mile.

The third decision concerned a 1992 statewide referendum in which the voters in Colorado adopted an amendment, known as Amendment 2, to their constitution prohibiting laws that make homosexual orientation, conduct, and relationships the bases of special entitlements to minority status, quota preferences, and claims to discrimination.

In this regard, the National Housing Task Force recommends that increased federal spending for housing be allocated through a program of entitlements to states and localities based on need as well as through a program of matching funds based on the willingness of local governments, businesses and nonprofits to provide land and financing.

From February to June additional environmental water was delivered as part of Entitlement Flow.

Record rainfall and growing concern over the politics of the Murray Darling Basin have not been enough to dent the values and demand for water entitlements in Australia's booming farming regions such as the Murrumbidgee.

The unions, for their part, see it as an avenue for unscrupulous employers to avoid paying worker entitlements and cheat the tax system of billions of dollars a year.