People think 'maybe I'm being taken for granted or my provider isn't hungry anymore.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The canal today is taken for granted, much like the Bosphorus or the Strait of Gibraltar.

ECONOMIST: The Suez Canal

Mr James's main theme is that globalisation cannot be taken for granted: it may slow down, or even retreat, as it did with such calamitous results in the 1930s.

ECONOMIST: Lessons from the Great Depression

That our love was routine, taken for granted, with an immediate future measured in three or four days, was comforting.

NEWYORKER: Hand on the Shoulder

Americans are more pessimistic than the Indians or Chinese, worried that their children will not enjoy the opportunities that they have taken for granted.

ECONOMIST: Lexington

Consequently, it has been taken for granted that the natural order of things is for QE2 to be ended, replaced, or modified well before the end of near-zero Federal Funds sometime late this year, next year, or the year after.

FORBES: The Time Has Come To Raise Interest Rates