How To Use Granted In A Sentence

The recession blindsided a lot of lawyers who had previously taken for granted their comfortable income.
Where the company is seeking general authority to purchase shares in the market they must state their intentions regarding the authority granted.
The Israelis already possess them, operating disingenuously and outside international norms again, an exceptionalism granted by the United States’ favor andmight. The Volokh Conspiracy » Pro-Palestinian “Peace Activists”
In 1880 Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent on an apparatus for signalling and communicating called a Photophone.
What splendor and pulchritude, what symmetry in all things, what assets for the necessities of life have you not granted and assigned to this land and its inhabitants! Brotherhood of the Butterfly Net

Granted, people often clump together for mutual protection from an outside enemy. Christianity Today
Granted, we have reams of remote sensing data from that first investigation, including the information from the detailed dissection of the spider biot done by Dr. Laura Ernst. But the cosmonauts brought home only one artifact, a tiny piece of some kind of biomechanical flower whose physical characteristics had already irreversibly changed before any of its mysteries could be understood, We have nothing else in the way of souvenirs from that first excursion. Rama Revisited
He was granted a licence to mine in the area.
The court granted her a decree of divorce.
He's now milking tarantulas for their venom, and has recently been granted a licence to export that venom.
When asked for permission to reproduce a work she granted the request and refused payment.
Persons thus co-opted by the Senate were liable to the burden of the praetorship , and likewise those whom the Emperor ennobled, unless special exemption were granted.
Dio Cassius can scarcely be mistaken when he says that Tyre and Sidon were "enslaved" -- i.e. deprived of freedom -- by Augustus, [14477] who must certainly have revoked the privilege originally granted by Pompey. History of Phoenicia
The "logic" underlying the sacred cosmos is taken for granted because it is equally applicable to different social situations. Sociology and Religion: A Collection of Readings
Having sought asylum in the West for many years, they were eventually granted it.
The site of the memorial is granted in perpetuity to Canada.
The question isn't really whether editors can be granted copyright for their work or not.
Then the earle desired that he might put in mainprise, which was granted: and so the earle of Kent, sir Rafe Ferrers, sir Iohn Roch, & sir Iohn Draiton knights, mainprised the said earle bodie for bodie. Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV
They were each sentenced to 29 years in prison but were released in 1992 as part of an amnesty granted to political prisoners, having served only five years of their sentence.
He said that the exceptional permission for the unusual ceremony had been granted because his grandmother had herself served as a Wren.
Granted, half of the pink spidery lines were not by her own doing.
They take for granted easy access to inexpensive technological, social and collaborative tools. Times, Sunday Times
The tax granted by the datary for the contracting of marriage out of the permitted seasons, is twenty carlins; and in the permitted periods, if the contracting parties are the second or third degree of kindred, it is commonly twenty-five ducats, and four for expediting the bulls; and in the fourth degree, seven tournois, one ducat, six carlins. A Philosophical Dictionary
On posttrial motions, the court upheld most of the jury verdict but granted remittitur of damages. ISO damages for false advertising and commercial disparagement
I am going to take for granted that you have done your homework and have a proposal that is worth seeing.
But when you actually do so, you suddenly become aware of how many sights and sounds you just take for granted and ignore in the course of everyday humdrum life.
So great was the general's despatch, that Paul I, at his request, granted the young man a sub-lieutenancy in the Semonowskoi regiment, so that Foedor entered on his duties the very next day after his arrival in St. Petersburg. Celebrated Crimes (Complete)
Link thank you oliver sacks for your descriptive skills you employed in so many excellent books. your account of your vision changes made me weep. how easily we take stereovision for granted. — melynda reid The World Science Festival: Oliver Sacks at the MET - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
In some instances, you need to respond immediately to those requirements in order to be granted or to maintain organic certification.
Taking for granted that we have this standard plate, the spherometer is placed upon it, and the readings of the divided head and indicator, _d_, noted when the point of the screw, Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885
The school was granted some temporary prefabs to replace old dilapidated ones which were declared unsafe, but with both sets of these prefabs in the school at the same time, the children lost a lot of their playground space.
His mother - whose preference for himself, devotion to himself, he had always taken for granted.
Routine chores, that other people may take for granted, have inevitably become a problem.
In the late 1960s and '70s, second-wave feminists, belittled in today's conservative backlash as bra-burning man-haters, paved the way for rights younger women now take for granted.
In technical terms, the new chief executive is entitled to be granted an option to buy ordinary shares.
For Life Nobles and knights, only the person originally granted the arms bears them undifferenced. Concordance A Terran Empire concordance
This is his centennial year and he's been granted the ultimate accolade - his face on a set of three postage stamps.
I have to take one thing for granted: that I will love you, until the last breath leaves my body.
This was despite requests from Churchill and the British Royal Family that the king be granted greater diplomatic privileges.
Quite a few of them would even stub out their cigarettes so enraptured, and intimidated, would they be by the blizzard of technical virtuosity that we, today, take for granted. Debra Levine: Ballets Russes Updated: Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Turns 15
He sold the land to the claimants and they granted him in return a rent-free life tenancy.
Do be aware that a lease will have important statutory rights only if it was originally granted for more than 21 years. Times, Sunday Times
Granted that you are correct, you may find it hard to prove your point.
Granted, Tyson's may be fixed over the next 30 years by extending the Washington Metro, but the street layouts, set up for maximum automobility, that define the urban space are problematic and limit possibilities. The End of Suburbia
He died just before the arrival of the news that he'd been granted British citizenship. The Times Literary Supplement
Thus, it is through delegation a jure, that is in virtue of jurisdiction granted by the Council of The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
There are also leaders outside of the parliament who escape prosecution because they have been granted immunity by their own governments.
The state allows official dispensaries to supply those patients granted a special pass, but not everybody is happy. Times, Sunday Times
The availability of security may, however, have a bearing on whether or not a particular loan will be granted.
I mean, granted, Dave is not the most stable person in the world - no one who's done that much freebasing can be, really.
Her petition for divorce was granted.
Special prizes will be granted to winners selected by an expert jury in early December.
The picks of the women's matches are clearly those granted special status. Times, Sunday Times
These observations suggest to some that bisexuality is a natural state among animals, perhaps Homo sapiens included, despite the sexual-orientation boundaries most people take for granted. ID/Evolution
This they did later, either on account of the French fishermen or at the instigation of the Dutch, and a year's respite was granted.
The bank finally granted me a ￡400 loan.
The government granted an amnesty for all former terrorists.
But they then granted him conditional bail. The Sun
Formerly the universities were granted considerable day-to-day autonomy within a legal framework shaped byu the state.
The crack and the manners and all the things you take for granted that I dinna have. AN OLDER WOMAN
But they then granted him conditional bail. The Sun
The rights granted include the exclusive right to authorize or forbid leasing.
If you love sport, it can be easy to take for granted how readily accessible it is. Times, Sunday Times
Creative leeway has always been granted to those novelists and letter writers who are able to pull off a controversial use of rhetoric with talent and grace.
Two weeks ago they were granted asylum. Times, Sunday Times
Edward the Confessor granted the land to the Abbey of Westminster, and it was disafforested in 1218. Mayfair, Belgravia, and Bayswater The Fascination of London
She has been granted permanent residency in Britain.
The court granted a declaration to the plaintiff.
Some have recently been granted asylum on the basis of having an Irish child.
He just takes it for granted that a liberal internal polity shapes external policy.
Experts teach behavioural techniques to couples who risk slipping into the trap of taking each other for granted. Times, Sunday Times
Coming of age just after the Second World War, he was too old to be a child of the 1960s, but too young to accept the pieties his parents might have taken for granted.
They granted you a mortgage, and that's recorded in the land records, and the company that has the mortgage and can foreclose is MERS. Lawmaker Questions Power to Foreclose
Arthur Miller's drama has so long been accorded canonical status that it can easily be taken for granted.
If the right to recall is legislated to become a law of the land, it can have a very sobering effect on our politicians; many of them take the voter for granted.
As she ascended through the angelic ranks and was granted more power, Paris would have more energy, and she would learn how to conserve that energy.
They were granted the first patent on the airplane in 1906.
The strings of a four-string cello are usually tuned in fifths, but scordatura tunings were used in the baroque era, and so tuning in fifths cannot be taken for granted.
Would it not have been better for the remaining millions of British people if our all-powerful law machine had granted him a full pardon, together with an order never to set foot on British soil for the rest of his lifetime?
Granted, there is a trueness of voice in those who have experienced first-hand the hours of relentless boredom punctuated by moments of abject terror that is combat, or law enforcement, for that matter.
As the classical imagination rightly observed, we all have a tendency to privilege the contents of the ego in service to our security (this they called hybris) and a tendency to view the world through the colored lens granted us by fate (this they called the hamartia) and end by deceiving ourselves. California Literary Review
The government agency oversaw a scheme under which further education colleges were granted millions of pounds to rebuild their sites. Times, Sunday Times
I was amazed that virtually all the things I took for granted up north just didn't happen in London.
Most of the population of two million people were not granted citizenship.
Your problem is that you take your wife for granted.When was the last time you told her how much you appreciated her?
They were granted bail but the judge warned them she was considering a prison sentence and fine. Times, Sunday Times
He was effectively granted a blank cheque to conduct a war without Congressional authorization for up to 90 days.
There is no issue between the parties with respect to the applicable legal principles relating to the immunity granted an expert witness in legal proceedings.
Not talking about things is a privilege granted to those in unmarked categories. Silence is complicity. « A Bird’s Nest
Let me outline this in the form of two simple propositions: Modernity pluralizes the lifeworlds of individuals and consequently undermines all taken-for-granted certainties.
In his own country the king granted these honourable augmentations to his armorial ensign: a chief undulated, ARGENT: thereon waves of the sea; from which a palm tree issuant, between a disabled ship on the dexter, and a ruinous battery on the sinister all proper; and for his crest, on The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson
The railway line , due for closure, has been granted a six - month reprieve.
The pilot was granted clearance to land.
The bank finally granted me a ￡400 loan.
Flot, derived from the French _flottant_, floating; and jet, from the verb _jeter_, to _throw up_; both used in seignoral rights, granted by kings to favourites, empowering them to take possession of the property of any man who might happen to be unfortunate, which was in those times tantamount to being guilty. Newton Forster The Merchant Service
Fourth, the original understanding of the Constitution by the public and the men who voted to ratify is clear that Constitution was to be secular, promote tolerance, and granted no powers in matters of religion. The Volokh Conspiracy » District Court Judge Strikes Down Statute Providing for National Day of Prayer
His efforts finally bore fruit and permission was granted.
The campaigners sought the divorcement of studios from their theatre chains, and in 1948 their wish was granted.
He was granted conditional bail after paying a surety of 100,000 baht.
Granted, this species is extinct, but not that long ago, they filled this island.
Hunt's acquisitive instincts far surpassed anything the Sublime Porte had in mind when it granted the firman.
It being granted, he succeeded in making an exchange of the lieutenant for one of his expressmen. The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself
I was granted permission to visit the palace.
On the contrary, he suggests they often have unreasonable demands and are now taking the health service for granted.
A developer expends money on the project before planning permission is granted at his own risk.
Neither his friend's pathetic loneliness, nor the inducements he so lavishly offered, would have tempted Gerrard to leave the capital had it not been that he had ascertained from the Nawab that the _jaghir_ which he had granted to Rukn-ud-din as the Rani's representative lay in the direction in which Charteris was now to be found. The Path to Honour
This government abolished the death penalty, got rid of the secret police and granted an amnesty for political prisoners. Times, Sunday Times
The priest heard her confession and granted absolution.
Trinidad was granted universal adult suffrage in 1945.
If you love sport, it can be easy to take for granted how readily accessible it is. Times, Sunday Times
In May this year he was granted full immigration status and his family joined him.
One of the privileges granted to them was the right to sell their wine wholesale, free of duties.
In recognition for her endeavours on behalf of women, she was granted a civil list pension of ￡75 a year in 1913.
Don't take his help for granted.
Citizenship was granted to all allottees and to others who adopted the ‘habits of civilized life.’
Now, granted, gNAW will get the rights to do a Teennuts manga when Hell freezes over (I mean the other parts, not Cocytus), so if your reaction matches that of quixoticals, you can just chillax cuz it ain't gonna happen anyway. C'mon, Tell Me This Isn't Awesome
Most of us, however, take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista. So we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life.
The enemy besieged in a few strongholds capitulated on the condition that they would be granted to return home voluntarily.
He was refused asylum but was granted exceptional leave to remain. Times, Sunday Times
It granted the officers' request for a warrant, but didn't specifically say that they could search occupants of the house other than the drug dealer.
Granted, none of this is hermetic or chaos magic or even plain old wicca.
Great Regulars: One senses that the father has always taken the older son's dutifulness for granted, and that, perhaps, the older son has been so dutiful in order to win some greater measure of his father's love and approval. Archive 2009-03-01
The judge granted him bail but banned him from driving. The Sun
A day later he was granted bail for offences of conspiracy to utter counterfeit currency and conspiracy to defraud.
She has been granted a remission of sentence.
The case was adjourned until June 22 for committal proceedings and Port, 39, was granted unconditional bail.
The licences are to be granted for an initial duration of two years, although there is the possibility of renewal and extension countrywide.
Individualism is a pretty new idea relatively speaking and one which most of us today take for granted.
As a member of the Iraqi National Congress, he worked for years to topple Saddam Hussein before being granted political asylum in the United States in 1997.
Management have granted a 10% pay rise in response to union pressure.
The root of the problem is the inherent unsoundness of State-granted guarantees to firms against market failure.
In any case nothing that their castellan did, nothing he denied, nothing he granted, no princeling he rejected, no humble travelling monastic he welcomed, seemed to occasion surprise here. A River So Long
'Twas granted him not that ever the edge of iron at all could help him at strife: too strong was his hand, so the tale is told, and he tried too far with strength of stroke all swords he wielded, though sturdy their steel: they steaded him nought. Beowulf
The court awarded/granted/gave custody of the child to the father.
In 1310 the king granted life exemption from tallages, prises, juries, assizes, and royal ministries to Nicholas de Fakenham of Lynn, who is not known to have held any office.
And," she wrote, "I cannot tell you what I felt when I put on the black dress and mantelletta and veil, which are _de rigueur_ when a lady is granted an audience with the Pope. My New Curate
Recently, the president did not pardon him but granted him with a commutation, which is definitely to his advantage. CNN Transcript Jul 5, 2007
The chapeau is only granted in the case of a grant of arms to a peer.
In other cases, Revenue was concerned other individuals granted reliefs under section 481 spent budgets abroad or did not even make a proper film.
The county council has applied for planning permission to convert the listed building into three residential units and once this has been granted will put it on to the open market.
In that case, BMW could demand repayment of the £500m loan it granted to keep MG Rover going, when Towers and his colleagues bought it for a nominal £10.
He was granted bail last May pending the outcome of his appeal.
This mortgage was to become due and payable 60 days after the termination of a lease granted to the Mother.
Huffed he, “When fitness nuts have their druthers we die of exhaustion to encourage the others to get in shape and not take their health for granted.” The Volokh Conspiracy » “Pour encourager les autres”
The Court concluded that in most circumstances, including the case at issue, summary judgment is appropriate where there are uncontradicted statements from both the owner and the driver regarding the lack of permission granted to the driver. Insurance Defense
I was granted permission to visit the palace.
The United States patent and trademark office has granted three patents to RiceTec of Texas.
Of course, first it has to be put online, and granted public access.
He was sentenced to death but was granted a last-minute reprieve.
He was granted a presidential pardon last year. Times, Sunday Times
“intrinsic” meaning — in Panofsky's terminology — of a work of art cannot be described in terms used by the history of art, but only in terms borrowed from the history of philosophy, of religion, of social structures, of science, and so on, the “iconological method” took for granted and provoked such a collaboration. ICONOGRAPHY
Then, assured that the company had repented of their evil deeds and intentions, he granted his full, sovereign forgiveness to all.
A patent was granted, in the year 1848, to MH Picciotto, for two several methods of purifying and decoloring all varieties of gum-arabic.
Granted this meeting was not really my field: I was an outlier and I knew it.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two makes four. If that is granted, all else follows.
the first intifada ended when Israel granted limited autonomy to the Palestine National Authority in 1993
They granted him permission to go.
Either a party to a tribunal or legal proceedings is granted immunity or he is not.
If you choose to remove your User Content, the license granted above will automatically expire, however you acknowledge that the Company may retain archived copies of your User Content. Facebook's New Terms Of Service: "We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Content. Forever." - The Consumerist
The concession will not therefore normally apply to rights already granted under an approved employee share scheme.
The country has also been granted membership of the World Trade Organisation.
Intel has granted 80,000 workers the right to buy additional stock at the knock-down price of $25.69 a pop.
Access is granted to select historians on a case-by-case basis, at the discretion of the royal household. Times, Sunday Times
The country was granted observer status at the summit.
Rather than taking this directive for granted, Nelson delves into the varieties of cruelty perpetrated on us bourgeois for our supposed betterment, what the art critic Grant Kester has called the "orthopedic aesthetic. NYT > Home Page
Full planning permission has been granted with construction due to commence this year.
Those prosperitis I have granted to you belong to you.
Because work is so readily available, we're beginning to take it for granted, so if it was a particularly demanding weekend, a lie-in on Monday morning won't do anyone any harm.
Hepplewhite had died intestate at Redcross Street by 27 June 1786, when administration was granted to his widow, Alice.
During that time three solicitors were, he alleges, unlawfully granted powers to administer the estate.
It is possible that not all the structures and items inventoried in 883 existed in 869, when Kanshinji was granted state support as a jogakuji.
The converse may well be true - wrongdoing on the part of the recipient may strengthen a claim for relief - but it does not follow that the absence of wrongdoing means that an injunction should not be granted.
Specially, poor whites were granted certain minimal but real rights and opportunities, such as being "deputized" as overseers to police slaves. Why We Need Black-White Unity to Save America-An Historical Perspective
The statue of the goddess in the sanctum was small and was heavily garlanded with bells and gold borders - offerings made to the goddess for boons granted.
Granted, the novel isn't gleeful, but there's enough levity to entertain the idea of lasting love.
The level of patriotic indignation in China against posturing by American and European politicians over Tibet is already so high that a long-term clamp-down in Tibet seems inevitable, while public support in China for continued cooperation with the West can no longer be taken for granted. Israelated - English Israel blogs
He was more a man of deeds than of words - he always performed what he promised, and when this had been done, he sent to let the petitioner know that his wishes had been granted.
We are having to re-educate the public very quickly about something they have always taken for granted.
The Bishops granted an 'indult' for the priest to wear a suit with a clerical shirt because of the anti-Catholic sentiment in the mainly protestant American culture. So I'm wrong...
She was the first woman to be granted a full tenured professorship in a clinical department at the medical school.
Fergus and I, after having lain awake for a considerable time, taking it for granted that they had given up all intention of attacking the house, at length fell into a kind of wakeful doze from which we were at once aroused by a loud knocking at the hall-door. The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two
The Authorization of Use of Military Force passed in Sep of 2001 recognized al Qaeda as a nation-less international enemy and, IIRC, granted authority to attack them where ever they werefound. The Volokh Conspiracy » Predator Drone Warfare — Assorted Links
The Northern Territory is the only region where Aborigines have comprehensive land rights, granted almost by accident 30 years ago. Chris Floyd - Empire Burlesque
Suppose a warrant is granted to tap the telephones of an organization which is planning a march or demonstration.
The membranous part of the canal is, however, mentioned as being the situation most prone to the disease; but I have little doubt, nevertheless, that owing to general rules of this kind being taken for granted, upon imposing authority, many more serious evils (false passages, &c.) have been effected by catheterism than existed previous to the performance of this operation. [ Surgical Anatomy
Granted, they do have a distinct sound, a wide array of musical sounds and edgy lyrics.
A royal charter is granted by the exercise of prerogative powers. Times, Sunday Times
The pass is granted for next weekend, and Nurse Ratched takes out a newsclipping about how rough and dangerous the sea is this year.
Granted, some still get by with the bare minimum, but the great majority produce work of much higher quality than 20 years ago.
Granted, the Leviathan numbers are just predrill guesses. The New Big Oil and Gas Find
But what must strike every one who reflects as the most surprising thing in Dr. Strauss, is, that with the postulatum with which he sets out, and which he modestly takes for granted as too evident to need proof, he should have thought it worth while to write two bulky volumes of minute criticism on the subject. Reason and Faith; Their Claims and Conflicts From The Edinburgh Review, October 1849, Volume 90, No. CLXXXII. (Pages 293-356)
He proposed that the power should be granted for several sites outside the city to be purchased, and an automatic tramway or railway run to the centre from each.
She insisted she was free to enter the country using another passport granted by a European country. Times, Sunday Times
Granted, its developers aimed for a younger audience, but much of the gameplay felt ripped from a number of other third-person platformers.
I consider that my two little blondies - one aged 3 and one aged 4, gorgeous little kids, more like their mother, granted, than their father - would love to have a little puppy this Christmas.
Then the earle desired that he might put in mainprise, which was granted: and so the earle of Kent, sir Rafe Ferrers, sir Iohn Roch, & sir Iohn Draiton knights, mainprised the said earle bodie for bodie. Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV
Motherhood - taken for granted for centuries - is now the subject of heated debates.
ZANZIBAR - Oman and Saudi Arabia have granted the Indian Ocean island of Zanzibar $16 million to improve airports. ANC Daily News Briefing
Kwaque queried back, taking for granted that it was an offer to exchange and wondering whether the little old cook had become enamoured of his precious jews 'harp. CHAPTER XI
It tends to be taken for granted," Schipke says, "That the Mandelbrot is too calculation-intensive to be done without computers. Archive 1999-04-01

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