Some homeless people say a job is not an automatic ticket out of the shelter system.

If you park at the curb without one, it's an automatic ticket.

There was no automatic ticket to senior management.

Hitting 500 homers, collecting 3,000 hits, or winning 300 games does not produce an automatic ticket to Cooperstown.

But what undocumented workers would come out of the shadows willingly if it meant an automatic one-way ticket back to their native land?

Whatever a sales charge buys, it's not an automatic ticket to better management.

A Times affiliation is no longer an automatic ticket to the Obituaries page.

Add a constitutional amendment so that being born in America is not an automatic ticket to citizenship.

They bought the stock - one share each, and with it an automatic ticket to annual meetings - last year for $32 a share.

No one seemed worried about automatic $25 tickets for gridlocking.