How To Use Entitlement In A Sentence

There is also a great deal on workers' rights and social entitlements.
We are determined to ensure that the legal entitlements owed to Australian workers are delivered.
We also believe that Fannie should have guidelines allowing servicers to proceed on a foreclosure only when its legal entitlement to foreclose is clearly documented. Dems To Fannie Mae: Why Are You Feeding Foreclosure Mills?
The Democratic political calculation with ObamaCare is the proverbial boiling frog: Gradually introduce a health-care entitlement by hiding the true costs, hook the middle class on new subsidies until they become unrepealable, but try to delay the adverse consequences and major new tax hikes so voters don't make the connection between their policy and the economic wreckage. The ObamaCare Writedowns
It has been claimed that it did not fall within the rules pertaining to MPs' travel entitlements.

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As a character study, I've often thought this president was the worst of two worlds: a sense of elite Eastern entitlement without the intellectual rigor and Texas bravado minus the bigheartedness. Jamie Stiehm: When Oliver Stone Makes a Movie, Bring It On
Taking part in this course will not affect your social welfare entitlements.
Do you need advice on your entitlement to state benefits?
The Government has decided the nature of service for Operation Falconer is warlike for the purpose of conditions of service entitlements.
The unfunded liabilities in entitlement schemes are already showing that they're reaching their tipping points a decade earlier than projected; for the last five months, Social Security has taken in less money into the "trust fund" than it has disbursed - in other words, the tipping point predicted (variously) in 2014, 2018, 2019, 2023, etc - it is here and now: social security is now having to be made whole by the general fund. Latest Articles
She has even passed on the entitlement mentality to her son.
In the short term, to the extent that it enabled workers to recover entitlement losses, this merely shifted those losses from workers to other unsecured creditors who were in no way responsible for the problem.
Further, there is no reason why a legatee cannot effectively renounce his entitlement to shares without executing a deed.
Palestinians in the diaspora risk losing "their entitlement to equal representation ... their ability to vocalise their views, to participate in matters of national governance, including the formation and political identity of the state, and to exercise the right of return. Palestinian state could leave millions of refugees with no voice at UN
There will be provision to purchase, sell or lease single payment entitlements.
‘Work is ongoing in processing these cases, with a view to issuing provisional entitlement statements as soon as possible’, she said.
Consequently their entitlement to these reliefs could be reduced.
But Bush actually backing up that blueblooded entitlement in a real, honest-to-god, ‘broken nose, pissing blood, requiring multiple stiches’ fight? Matthew Yglesias » Bush As Crank
Before getting into why 43 governors, but not the U.S. president, have this p ower, a comment on those who say that impoundment is a pop-gun, that it can't control entitlements or mega-programs. Congress's Broken Windows
It would also create enormous problems of definition and entitlement and a bonanza for lawyers.
Vis-a-vis entitlement: my main objection to Sen. Clinton's candidacy is my abiding belief that political dynasties are antithetic to democracy. Richardson Defends Bill Clinton From McCarthyism Charge �� But Blasts Carville
But Kuron insists he was no different to anyone else working for the East as a salaried employee with pension rights and holiday entitlement and as a result he paid too much tax and is due a refund from the West.
I couldn't agree more, though I think the this coddling might produce more of a sense of inflated self-entitlement than the deflated self-esteem the author describes.
ELLIOTT: Holton says it's time to stop policing the world and slow down what he describes as a runaway entitlement system. News
Teachers employed under contract do not receive holiday or sick leave and other basic entitlements.
In the vast majority of divorces, a wife's entitlement to annual maintenance payments will continue to be assessed on her need.
Except for an entitlement to a police car and driver when attending official functions, they receive no formal allowances.
Those without a formula entitlement, both inside and outside metropolitan areas, would have to rely on discretionary grants.
Republican entitlement, yea cause rich democrats dont feel entitlement ... * cough cough* kennedys * ahem Dlisted - Be Very Afraid
And the term "entitlement" resonates with that word's other meaning - selfishness and the greedy assumption that one deserves to be served by others as in "he acts so entitled. Richard (RJ) Eskow: "Entitlement Reform" Is a Euphemism For Letting Old People Get Sick and Die
From their own pocket and without any access to commutation or pension entitlements.
So your submission was directed at the specificity of a percentile discount rather than the entitlement of some allowance in the reduction of the punitive sentence?
If an employee refuses the offer of another identical job he loses redundancy entitlement.
His Batman rasps his lines in a voice that's deeper and hammier than ever, and when Bruce Wayne has to pretend to be a mindlessly hedonistic playboy, his smirk carries a trace of Dubya entitlement. Undefined
Still, let's give Mr. Cameron and his Chancellor their due: They are haltingly coming to grips with the fact that the universal entitlement state has become unaffordable. Welfare and Class Warfare in Britain
EVERY entitlement program has a section entitled "Qualifications" that details how a recipient is to qualify for the program. CNN Truth Squad: Will health bill pay for illegal immigrants?
We had to get what we called our nucleus registration database into a bullet-proof position so we knew we could manage intelligence and entitlements without leaving the consumer sort of left holding the bag where we make mistakes. SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
If there is a common thread in all of this, it is the sense of entitlement.
The Irish government has a particular duty to defend the rights and entitlements of Irish people.
Recent "comeback attempts" by Cruise and Spears -- two publicity super shammies -- and Michael Jackson's recently announced "curtain call" concerts in London are separated from Estefan story by a miles-wide crevasse of entitlement. Jason Notte: Britney, Tom, Michael Jackson and the Case Against Second Acts for Famous People
The outstanding leave entitlement is absolutely crippling that organisation, and because of this nonsense its contingent liability has just gone through the roof.
Then he mysteriously wakes up one morning, and decides to switch parties because he now believes bigger Govt. is better Govt., he believes in fueling the public sector at the expense of the private sector, and he now believes that the Govt. should be increasing rather than limiting Americans 'dependence on entitlements. Specter's 2009 vote on Kagan now a 2010 issue
Irako's sense of entitlement and bondless ambition is the hubris which eventually leads to the discovery of his betrayal by the Kogan sensei. Undefined
At Louis XIV's court, entitlement to a stool (tabouret or pliant) depended on rank, and most courtiers had to stand.
It is not legally necessary for the same notice entitlement to apply to both you and your employer.
Republican critics said the legislation still doesn't go far enough because it exempts all discretionary spending, and applies only to nonroutine increases in entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare. 'Blue Dog' Democrats Hold
Reading through the White House's text of "An Economy Built to Last," any half-awake citizen will notice the words that fail to appear: Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, entitlements and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Obama's Maddening, Winning Speech
That is based on 990 shares per member, based on two entitlements plus loyalty shares.
These are powerful men convinced of their own entitlement to bounty and governance.
The practitioner works as the officer of the organisation to test for entitlement to its services, perhaps using functional assessment methods.
The big summit meetings are elaborate rituals, ostentatious shows of power that reinforce the entitlement and authority of the bodies they represent.
The practitioner works as the officer of the organisation to test for entitlement to its services, perhaps using functional assessment methods.
Women are employed as casuals so their employers can slide out of paying full entitlements such as maternity leave.
Her neediness, her entitlement, are manifest in all she does.
We've already analyzed the Orwellian strategy behind the phrase "entitlement reform," which is a well-crafted euphemism for "cutting services for the elderly. Richard (RJ) Eskow: The Ministry of Truth: New Fronts in the War on Social Security
A cat's vast sense of entitlement may be delusive but at least it's honest.
Yeah, nothin 'says "looney" like pointing out that we don't have the money to police the world, that we should return to constitutional government and protect individual liberty, and that our entitlement programs are going bankrupt. Paul No. 1 on Amazon.com
The applicant advanced a number of grounds in support of his claim for entitlement to prerogative relief.
Oh how my heart bleeds for those poor, poor workers that got nearly all their ‘entitlements’ courtesy of the Australian taxpayer after bludging for years in a union-sheltered workshop.
This builds up monthly in advance at the rate of one-twelfth of the annual entitlement each month.
In other words, health reform was a classic bait and switch: Sell a virtually unrepealable entitlement on utterly unrealistic premises and then the political class will eventually be forced to control spending. The Massachusetts Health-Care 'Train Wreck'
Consolidated entitlements are allocated from the National Reserve and cannot be sold or leased for 5 years.
Everybody knows there needs to be a brack (ph), which means a commission that meets, that respected, they're bipartisan and they come out with a plan to fix them both, these entitlement systems. CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2009
Her insufferable sense of entitlement has turned her into a laughing stock.
Known as co-determination, the system gives unions a legal entitlement to seats on a firm's supervisory board. Times, Sunday Times
Traditional practices often denied women their statutory entitlements to inheritances and property.
It is revulsive the number of Americans who look at the government to provide some sort of entitlement to them. Elizabeth Edwards: McCain's health care proposal is a 'disaster.'
We are heading off a fiscal cliff so add a unrepealable entitlement that if history is any guide will prove to be unsustainable? The Volokh Conspiracy » House Democratic Leaders Drop “Deem and Pass”
We suspect felicity is not likely to accompany a sense of entitlement, which arises from a sullen sense that not only are things not improving but that that is because we have no control - the world does not appreciate our true worth.
The precise formula for working out who is eligible depends upon the legal entitlement in question.
The evidence that the pitchers of woe about pending national insolvency are actually more worried about entitlements than insolvency is pretty clear to me: While entitlements are totally driving the long-term fiscal crisis, they have not a word of criticism for entitlements. Grading the President in Macro, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Leave entitlement is calculated on a pro rata basis, according to length of service.
In some cases employers have deliberately established shelf companies without assets, in order to avoid paying out entitlements when they liquidate their businesses.
I would have thought that in order to found the entitlement it has to pre-exist and continue to exist.
For anyone to deprive them of a penny of their legal entitlement is a crime against society.
Unfortunately the real target for this judgeship is to overturn all of the federal corporate regulations, epa and entitlement programs. Think Progress » Alito believes Roe v. Wade is wrongly decided,
So we sit like global sport's great harrumphing, cobwebbed mother-in-law, glowering with assumed entitlement, craving only a sense of triumphant, spoiling vindication. Now England have won the Ashes, it's time to focus on being liked | Barney Ronay
But, honestly, the vast, and entirely gratuitous, sense of entitlement displayed by her campaign combined with the utter refusal by her and her supporters to recognize that she's endangering our best chance to pull out a big win in a must-win election smacks of Naderism, writ large. Report: Hillary Is Not "Unelectable," And The Polling Data Prove It
Subsidised health care is not a constitutional right, and there's obviously no support for making it, in contravention of the Constitution, an entitlement. Health care debate focuses on public insurance option
This successful assault on social welfare expenditures has provided the opening wedge for entertaining cuts in middle-class social insurance entitlements such as Social Security and Medicare.
After an initial fit of entitlement, Ralph went and looked at his sister, his face a sorrowful map of genuine concern.
The entitlement of the trust beneficiaries is not affected by a contribution holiday.
People find it difficult to get information regarding their entitlements and benefits.
He was concerned that people were being turfed out without their legal entitlements.
His entitlement attitude should be enough to add another decade to his sentence alone.
I found her to be really daunting as well, because of her entitlement and her wealth and her quiet power.
Equally troubling are the myths of geographical entitlement that undergird the reprehensible euphemism of ‘ethnic cleansing’.
In addition to the Entitlements Guarantee, Labor will require superannuation payments to be made by employers quarterly rather than annually.
What was once an economically viable privilege becomes an economically unviable entitlement.
Republicans have fallen short of their goals to dramatically roll back the federal health-care entitlements Waxman ushered into law.
And, to render this possible, it was essential for the state to provide a basic platform of entitlements.
Multiple entitlements vitiate demands based on prior existence, occupance, use and discovery.
On a personal level, the expectation of easy riches combined with a sense of absolute entitlement indicates stunted psychological growth and a sense of failure if desires remain unfulfilled. Boing Boing
Insofar as individuals have the presumable right to good health and protection from harm, and preventable or reducible bodily risk, the rhetoric of endangerment is a relative of entitlement discourse.
Do you need advice on your entitlement to state benefits?
The researcher has constructed computer models which predict tax and benefit entitlement under the present system, and after any possible reforms.
The mind boggles when confronted with issues such as income tax law, health service regulations, social welfare entitlements and family law.
Leave entitlement is calculated on a pro rata basis, according to length of service.
Also, many younger workers, not trained in social and communication skills, challenge authority inappropriately and assume an entitlement unfulfillable against the demands for increased productivity.
In fact, the nature and extent of these entitlements can vary enormously from one company to another.
They tend to work in fairly intense bursts and argue that entitlements such as time and a half will add 2.5 to 3 percent to their wage bills.
New South Wales put a cap in place in 1993 for its water entitlements, its water extractions.
Further, there is no reason why a legatee cannot effectively renounce his entitlement to shares without executing a deed.
This may affect your entitlement to compensation.
The influential Bell study gave them largely a clean bill of health as a model for determining disputes concerning entitlement to benefit.
And Mr. Obama's 2012 budget didn't offer many new ideas for tackling entitlement spending, among the biggest long-term drains on the federal budget. Obama Puts Taxes on Table
Is government willing to give up the pork, entitlements and transfer payments?
The influential Bell study gave them largely a clean bill of health as a model for determining disputes concerning entitlement to benefit.
If equality means entitlement to an equal share of the profits of economic tyranny, it is irreconcilable with liberation.
If soldiers are entitled to deal harshly with wounded enemy soldiers who might be engaged in perfidious acts, surely that entitlement can’t be contingent on holding a mini-trial right there to determine the matter. The Volokh Conspiracy » Phil Carter responds:
Under Kenyan domestic law, there is no entitlement to legal aid for anybody who is not accused of a capital offense," said Singh. "So, suspected pirates have no opportunity to have a lawyer.
To calculate payment entitlements, the single payment is divided by the average area held by the farmer in the base period.
She walks around with some strange sense of entitlement and ego, thanks to her own narcissism and dumb fans who strangely look up to her!
He was invalided out of the Army, his marriage broke up and he commuted some of his pension entitlement for a cash sum to settle his divorce.
Last July the spotlight was on 125 miners at the Oakdale mine who were sacked with $6.3 million in entitlements owed to them.
Part of the answer may lie in the peculiar economic euphoria of the mid- and late '90s, when bearishness began to seem unpatriotic and prosperity looked like a permanent entitlement.
A sodality of soreheads under the black flag of the Underground Literary Alliance had no other apparent purpose than to complain at tentshows that Moody and his whitebread buddies, a circle-jerk of class entitlements with names like Dave Eggers, Jonathan Lethem, and David Foster Wallace, had gobbled up all the royalties and review space, all the MacArthur baubles and Guggenheim buzz in Bookie World. In the Desert, Prime Time
In order to receive the entitlements of membership a small yearly fee is charged.
If a guarantee is received that a room will be rented under the scheme, banks are believed to be willing to add the tax free amount to your gross income prior to deciding your mortgage entitlement.
If he is correct, there may be no entitlement to charge the costs to the mortgage account, as the building society habitually have done.
That is to say there was no entitlement to judicial review on the merits of the question according to Justice Gray.
Thaksin, a former billionaire tycoon, put in place populist policies during his two-term premiership between 2001 and 2006 that won the hearts of the rural and urban poor and gave them a sense of political entitlement they now miss and want to regain. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
It is your right to know your entitlements so please avail of this service.
To claim that not allowing the bank to racially discriminate is an entitlement program clearly shows that. Think Progress » DOJ official reportedly clears torture architects John Yoo and Jay Bybee.
I think we should tax the banks, and penalize them for their role in triggering the downturn, but we also need to drop the sense of entitlement. Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » There Is Your Opening, President Obama
In the Supreme Court of Western Australia, the applicant argued that the respondent's entitlement to call upon the undertaking did not extend to the subject matter of its claim, which was for unliquidated damages.
Is this what Jeff Vandermeer meant when he titled his aforementioned post about paperbacks and e-book pricing “E-Books and Issues of Entitlement?” The Real Digital Conflict
Your contributions will affect your pension entitlements.
Those without a formula entitlement, both inside and outside metropolitan areas, would have to rely on discretionary grants.
Entitlements now consume more than half the overall budget.
You may not be able to claim down all the premium entitlements on weanlings purchased now.
If it takes throwing nearly $1 trillion of "porky" (to quote Sen. Charles Schumer) stimulus spending to soften up a Democratic Congress and make it amenable to real entitlement reform, then fine. Opinion Source: Delivering summaries of editorial and op-ed pieces from major papers by email.
Steady growth in entitlement programs has crowded out other government expenditure.
My own hospitality paled in comparison with the stories that circulated in medical circles, but my sense of entitlement rationalised this greed and excess as harmless and acceptable.
These dismal figures don't include the entitlement reforms proposed by the President.
Animals possess legal rights; although, as we have seen, the notion is more restrictive than that of human entitlement.
The influential Bell study gave them largely a clean bill of health as a model for determining disputes concerning entitlement to benefit.
The nearest attempt to a child's entitlement expressed by adults on their behalf lies in the United Nations Charter.
To compound the inequity, there is a risk in a fifty-fifty custody arrangement that the mother will no longer be seen as the primary caregiver, and may completely lose her entitlement to a sole parent rate of benefit.
An exercise of the power so as to exclude or restrict the entitlement of all of the beneficiaries in respect of some part of the land subject to the trust would render section 12 nugatory to that extent.
Those without a formula entitlement, both inside and outside metropolitan areas, would have to rely on discretionary grants.
entitlements make up the major part of the federal budget
Because the state reserves to itself exclusive entitlement to command obedience, it shows itself intolerant toward all institutions other than itself.
Staff will provide free, confidential advice on your rights and entitlements.
Do you need advice on your entitlement to state benefits?
Foreign states are testing them for public services such as blockchain land registries and databases of benefits entitlement. Times, Sunday Times
This rejection of the so-called ordinary appears to fortify these women, giving them a feeling of entitlement to something different and better.
It is not legally necessary for the same notice entitlement to apply to both you and your employer.
One was that customers were ‘wedded’ to the weekly collection, seeing it as a basic service entitlement and focusing more on the perceived problems around fortnightly collections.
Consider: The Ron Paul who in 1988 ran for president as a Libertarian spoke pugnaciously of abolishing "unconstitutional" entitlements such as Social Security and Medicare. Why Ron Paul Can't Win
Everyone can contribute to society, from “lowly” binman to brain surgeon, yet these people choose to live a life of entitlement, where they actually believe society owes them a house, owes them money in their pocket and owes them a response every time they want to drop to the floor and have a toddler tantrum. The Customer Is Always Right « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Total cuts to entitlements would top $265 billion.
What was once an economically viable privilege becomes an economically unviable entitlement.
Hundreds of millions of pounds in benefits cash lies unclaimed each year so it's well worth taking the time to check all your entitlements.
Her disdain is getting personal, her subject matter less ephemeral, as she scolds rich Americans driven by wanderlust and entitlement.
But he will resist to his last day any major changes to ObamaCare and the other load-bearing walls of the entitlement state. The GOP Opportunity
He did nothing to forfeit his presumptive entitlement to costs.
Transurban will remain in a trading halt until Thursday while seeking to raise A$542. 3 million via a one-for-11 renounceable entitlement offer underwritten by Transurban To Buy Lane Cove Tunnel
And by making a social insurance payment, they can avail of certain State benefits, principally the contributory pension entitlement.
Leave entitlement is calculated on a pro rata basis, according to length of service.
You live your life as a shiftless and lazy slob, forever waiting to hear the news of your aged relative's demise so you can board the gravy train that you feel is your entitlement.
Tighter rules for benefit entitlement have knocked many people off the unemployment register.
He also made the point that farmers are not aware of the Social Welfare entitlements they might have.
Balance is therefore the key legal issue in adjudication of explicit individual versus non-explicit governmental 4A constitutional rights/entitlements (?) Denlen (Quote) The Volokh Conspiracy » The Internet, The Fourth Amendment, and Technology Neutrality: A Response to Horowitz
They perceive Medicare as the most vulnerable government entitlement.
The advisors will be advising students to draw their entitlement each week but to save some money regularly to meet unexpected expenses.
After entitlement and scale of costs, if any, is established, a further timetable will be established for fixing the costs of the action.
The dispute then is not with respect to the mathematical calculation but rather the entitlement.
None of this is surprising, though it does dismantle the liberal nostrum that a new entitlement will somehow reduce health spending. National Health Preview
Rather than hiding behind hypocritical pro-market rhetoric, it is time to admit they have embraced their very own entitlement-boom that rivals the dreams of any European welfarist. Ron Davis: The Republican Nanny State
The revelations about Foley are nothing to do with his repressed pent-up "drives" (the steam-boiler analog for human sexuality); they are our peek at privilege and power that the rulers are now obliged to claim "nauseates" them as a way of denying that exploitative, power-trip sex is the norm in this society ... and that these transgressions are an entitlement of their power. Stan Goff: Pyongyang, Foley, and Mass Death
The measures would also see holiday entitlements reduced to just 20 days a year, inclusive of Bank Holidays, and the loss of entitlement to sick pay.
Except for an entitlement to a police car and driver when attending official functions, they receive no formal allowances.
Self-employed people who work from home could be missing out on significant tax savings by not claiming their full expenses entitlement.
Your contributions will affect your pension entitlements.
There are a few other entitlement programs that are exempt from the spending freeze, notably Medicare and Medicaid, which will continue to grow unless some form of the health care reform legislation is passed to rein it in. Think Progress » Axelrod Struggles To Explain Why Obama’s Spending Freeze Doesn’t Include Defense Funding
But all too often we let a sense of entitlement vandalize a decent amount of reasonable wants. Lighten Up
In the paternalistic protector role, there is an exaggeration of one's power to the level of omnipotence, self-glorification, self-presumption and self-entitlement.
black white or brindle they are all bitchy - it comes from their personal sense of pique when they deem their dereistic entitlements are not realised upon which they dump their malice on the nearest target usually men MRA, Feministing, and Racism
The government has recognised that we should get our full grant entitlement.
And yet, he could see in his grandfather a shameless self-importance, a profound sense of entitlement.
Many people are not aware of their full rights and entitlements as unemployed people.
Unlike open ended entitlements, the voucher is tied directly to a tax. Consumer-driven Health Care, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Mr Mullin said that any attempt to persuade clubs to end discrimination by blocking their entitlement to rates relief was illegal.
No one deserves to be better off than anyone else; nor does anyone have entitlements, or special claims.
Claims on exclusive entitlements based on religious belief multiply, and given the inseparability of the personal from the political, exclusivist claims mire civil discourse.
They should tell us how the various iwi or hapu will be recognised so as to receive their entitlement.
Many have been told by their doctors to take leave to protect their health and would step down from the job if they could keep their allowances and pension entitlements.
At Louis XIV's court, entitlement to a stool (tabouret or pliant) depended on rank, and most courtiers had to stand.
The problem is, Becky has an outsize sense of entitlement, which allows her to feel justified in mowing down people who get in her way. Carolyn Hax: Unfaithful sister wants her ex excluded from family functions
The judges felt the Entitlement card idea was just too stupid, woolly and nebulous to win.
The company are offering those willing to leave six weeks redundancy inclusive of statutory entitlements up to a maximum of two year's pay.
The end of entitlement is perhaps best demonstrated by the introduction of the Social Fund in the social security reforms of 1988.
He has refused to collect his entitlements and is preparing a legal challenge.
Your whole screed is based on an entitlement mentality. ‘Health care is important, of course. Now watch this drive.’ - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
Making news today, BlueScope Steel said it would conduct a fully underwritten four-for-five accelerated renounceable entitlement offer to raise $600 million to repay debt. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
Leave entitlement is calculated on a pro rata basis, according to length of service.
In these so-called "new property" cases, Roth requires the court to consider whether the plaintiff had a "legitimate claim of entitlement" to the benefit of which she was deprived.
Donnison, who was described as a narcissist with an overdeveloped sense of self-importance and entitlement, declined to give evidence herself during the trial. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Super Retail, which owns several retail chains, including Supercheap Auto and Ray's Outdoors, said the acquisition will be partly funded through a fully underwritten 9 for 19 pro-rata renounceable entitlement of new Super Retail ordinary shares at an offer price of A$5.34 per new share to raise about A$334 million. Super Retail Buys Rebel from Archer Capital

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