To be part of a team like this, we do not take it for granted.
The initial deterrent effect has largely disappeared because people just take it for granted.
Listen carefully and then take it for granted that the exact opposite will happen.
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But we most certainly, as Rothkopf says, cannot afford to take it for granted.
On the evidence of this week in Brighton, he cannot take it for granted.
"But many people living in small rural communities still can't take it for granted, " Byrd said.
"We, as Americans, take it for granted that we've been so secure all this time, " Damerow said.
Today we take it for granted that Italy and Austria will not come to blows, nor will Britain and Russia.
Most Indian business is still in the hands of family firms, and most people take it for granted that this will continue.
Londoners do seem to have a close connection with the Underground - but most of the time they take it for granted.
Here in the United States we are so blessed with so many freedoms that it becomes almost easy to take it for granted.
Many parents take it for granted that they should save for college but there are actually some very valid reasons not to.
"People here take it for granted that the healthy ones help the weaker, " says Nakamoto Yoshinori, an official with the Social Welfare Council.
Because when you watch a movie, you are so unaware of what's been going on behind the scenes, that you take it for granted.
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Or perhaps some governments deliberately keep wages low because they take it for granted that customs inspectors and driving-licence clerks will supplement their official pay.
It's become a kind of staple, we almost take it for granted that you have a mouth with the lips moving as part of an advert.
We take it for granted that Gen Y or Millennials grew up on social media, so they instantly know how to use it for professional purposes.
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Although most Americans take it for granted that they receive health insurance through the workplace, this is an artifact of federal tax rules from World War II.
We in the U.S. and other developed countries take it for granted that one can set up a lawful business in a matter of days or weeks.
We often take it for granted, this cycle of life.
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"When he hits the ball hard, even though he knows it's probably out of the ballpark, he doesn't take it for granted that it is out of the ballpark, " Johnson said.
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Gravity determines so much in our lives that we usually take it for granted, without giving it much thought unless, of course, one plans to take a tourist ride to the space station.
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And, we might take it for granted today, but it is only very recently that the companies who survived the dot-com bust changed the way we communicate with others, book travel plans and buy products.
Ironically, some of the worst personal branding failures are Millennials, who have grown up with so much new and innovative social technology that they take it for granted rather than exploiting their familiarity with it.
The price of our freedom has been far too high for any of us to ever take it for granted, and the consequence of non-participation in our right to vote is far too great for any of us to ignore.
For us, people sort of take it for granted -- hey, you do phones, and set-tops, and IPTV and all these things so it's easier for us now that that's part of the message for people to say, of course Microsoft's is going to make Messenger work on the Xbox.
Both books deplore the unchecked triumph of market forces, as if the state evaporated when the Berlin Wall came down. (It didn't: look at your pay-slip.) Both, rejecting without comment a basic tenet of economics, take it for granted that when countries trade, some at least of them must lose the question being whether all will lose, or just America.
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