Sentences with phrase «described as entitlements»

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.

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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.

The Republican candidate for US Senate, Wendy Long, is describing herself as pro-hydrofracking, for entitlement reform and focused on beating her opponent.

Within this perspective, Paul Weis describes refugees as «a vessel on the open sea, not sailing under any flag ’23 while Hannah Arendt observed that refugees are without rights because each nation - state has primary obligation to protect the rights, interests and expectations of its own citizens first, no matter where they are.24 However, both international and national refugee laws are adopted with the sole aim to ensure entitlement of the basic rights, proclaimed under a range of human rights conventions.25 Under these conventions, respect for human dignity of each and every human person is underlined as a foundation to freedom, justice and peace.

Thus Lord Nicholls, at [20] and [29], referred to the «equal sharing principle» and to the «sharing entitlement»; those phrases describe more than a yardstick for use as a check.

The judge described expectations of perfect discovery and entitlement to adjournments to take a «romp» through backup financial documents, as «old brain thinking».

(1) A person who intends to apply for one or more benefits described in this Regulation shall notify the insurer of his or her intention no later than the seventh day after the circumstances arose that give rise to the entitlement to the benefit, or as soon as practicable after that day.

[51] The common law entitlement to reasonable notice of termination has been described by the Supreme Court as a «necessary consideration» of an employment relationship: Machtinger, at p. 1024.

[It is interesting to note that pundits and journalists alike have couched the mortgage interest rate deduction in terms describing it as «costing the Treasury $ 70 billion per year» as though somehow there is a government entitlement to these assets.]

Also known as VA bonus entitlement, the second - tier VA loan allows you to have two VA loans out at once in certain circumstances described in detail within.