We are often reminded that welfare dependency can help to create an attitude of entitlement.

This has created a nation of ingrates with an attitude of entitlement.

But with an arrogant alpha-male attitude of entitlement we still see often enough, he saw no reason to.

Clearly, attitudes of entitlement are a serious problem.

With the explosion in the availability of consumer credit, which has encouraged conspicuous consumption, attitudes of entitlement have become all too standard.

The card, similar to a credit card, includes a picture of the holder, name, status, benefit entitlement and anti-fraud measures.

Anyone working abroad can pay national insurance to maintain state benefit entitlement.

But a consultation document released today will say she will look at 'the case for linking benefit entitlement to the take up of appropriate treatment or support'.

The immediate issue was of benefit entitlement as their haemophilia marched towards yet more serious illnesses.

Critics say that people should not have to pay to access their benefit entitlement.

Indeed, it seems reasonable to assume that all those who qualify will eventually be able to claim their entitlement.

The first question was: what did a person claiming entitlement to a patent in someone else's name have to prove?

Couples are told how to draw up wills, give each other power of attorney and claim entitlements.

Ministers have been forced to rethink the proposals after businesses complained that they would not know whether male employees claiming the entitlement were genuinely new parents.

In addition to your strict legal entitlement, there are a number of ways in which you may be able to improve the settlement.

Ministers are asking lawyers if the windfall - his legal entitlement - can be reclaimed.

They would cost £28 million as it was offering workers 75 per cent more redundancy pay than the legal entitlement.

This isn't to say that shareholders will necessarily see an executive's legal entitlement as fair.

Workers over 65 were the most likely not to have paid holidays, despite the legal entitlement to 28 days a year, or pro-rota for part-timers.

To say this housemate had a sense of entitlement was understating the case.

On the one hand, they appear to be the strongest, most upright of individuals with a huge sense of entitlement.

You've seen all the headlines, heard the disenchantment, you've been turned off by their sense of entitlement, as if they were somehow deserving of more.

They are easily manipulated by the indolent and conniving; those with many illness excuses and a deep sense of entitlement.

She abhorred any sort of diva behaviour or any sense of entitlement.

The claimant to any kind of social security benefit had a statutory entitlement to the amount she was awarded.

Their employers would also have faced fines if they failed to ensure staff took their statutory entitlement in any one year.

The conceptual distinction between the record and the information contained in it was acknowledged and that the statutory entitlement related specifically to the latter.

I thought the statutory entitlement was a maximum of four weeks a year - surely he can't be entitled to a further four weeks already?

Many statutory entitlements for victims of crime fail to reach victims of antisocial behaviour.

The old 20th-century sense of universal entitlement to state protection tends to blind us to physical truths about the geography of our islands.

They were already suffering underfunding, he said, for providing the universal entitlement that offers all families 15 hours a week of free education for three- and four-year olds.

From 2002 onwards, the leadership of this country gradually turned public services into universal entitlements.

Property rights are not universal entitlements.

Or fetter the provision of welfare entitlements, such as free school meals, for the most vulnerable?

Besides investment in infrastructure it recommends continued reform of labour markets and welfare entitlements, extra focus on employee retraining and moves to cut the cost of job creation.

Welfare entitlements would be more clearly based on contribution.

That means tough policies such as time-limited welfare entitlements (to get the long-term unemployed into work) and rapid increases in the state retirement age.

Its signature policies included the opportunities presented by automation, increasing housing supply and returning to a situation where welfare entitlements are linked to how much tax you pay.