In the US, it is taken for granted that states and municipalities can and do go bust.
It cannot be taken for granted that the Greek people will accept the medicine prescribed for it.
Therefore, it is taken for granted that it cares for Ecuadorian citizens and the environment where they operate.
Today, it's taken for granted that everyone can vote for either major-party candidate, but as late as 1960, John F.
At the same time, the campaign is doing well because that they haven't taken for granted that the Hispanic community is monolithic.
Anzor said he grew up in Soviet times, when it was taken for granted that Muslims didn't have to follow such strict rules.
In the past, the company has taken for granted that people would continue to use the service, pushing forward unpopular features and privacy settings.
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It was taken for granted that she would come backstage afterward.
Until this century, he argues, it was taken for granted that you could tell what was and was not a work of art by its look.
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It is often said that central and eastern Europe is heavily agricultural, and taken for granted that the new members will fight for generous funding from the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
In his view, what gadget buyers increasingly care about is not so much the gadgets themselves - it is taken for granted that rival brands are all pretty good - as the quality of the software and services they deliver.
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.
Sir Ian replied that it could not be "taken for granted" that the only way was up for public confidence without a "clean break" from the old system.
But it means that there is no vote to be taken for granted, that turnout really will make a difference in this election.
Belief was part of Hester, taken for granted, a sturdy certainty that brought her confidence and allowed her to insist she must be taken as she was, allowed her to condemn as a dishonesty any concealment of personal traits.
It was taken for granted by all for many years that their grandchildren would live amid greater abundance than they did.
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Mark had built his own fortune on things that Tom had left behind, things that were taken for granted such as open internet protocols and no requirements to license technology as no patents had been assigned to most of the things that made the internet work.
Matthew feels taken for granted and professionally trapped in the way that many contemporary stay-at-home moms often do.
Americans are more pessimistic than the Indians or Chinese, worried that their children will not enjoy the opportunities that they have taken for granted.
Operations that may be taken for granted in most other countries, such as routine vehicle checks, have only just started in the last few months in the Serb-dominated north of the city.
We took very seriously the idea that votes had been taken for granted.
This is a fragile process that can never be taken for granted.
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.
As many of us prepare to gather with families and friends this Thanksgiving, America Recycles Day offers a chance to highlight another resource that is too often taken for granted: food.
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Mr. Sondheim's iridescent harmonies have never come across so lucidly, and the fact that everybody in the cast sings exceptionally well (something that can never be taken for granted in Sondheim revivals) is continually gratifying.
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Lurking behind Mr Ibrahim's worthy aims is the niggling sense that the money amounts to an annual bribe - a bribe for not accepting bribes - dangled like a fat carrot in front of the continent's elites, in the hope of steering them towards the sort of behaviour that should surely be taken for granted.
Yet mixed indicators confirm that economic growth cannot be taken for granted.
And Quebeckers, awestruck by nature's power and their own helplessness before it, and suddenly appreciative of a service that till then they had taken for granted, responded.
Then, India's team were giving as good as it got in a series of five-day test matches in Australia, so much the world's best team in recent years that their victory had been taken for granted.
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