Though blessed with natural resources, especially the oil that has enriched Arab dynasties and their subservient elites while often leaving the masses in penury, few Arab countries have seen their non-oil economies flourish or their people enjoy the public services or freedoms taken for granted elsewhere.

ECONOMIST: Arab autocracy

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