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• The recession blindsided a lot of lawyers who had previously taken for granted their comfortable income.
• 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
• His mother - whose preference for himself, devotion to himself, he had always taken for granted.
• 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.
• Arthur Miller's drama has so long been accorded canonical status that it can easily be taken for granted.
• 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.
• 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
• We are having to re-educate the public very quickly about something they have always taken for granted.
• 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
• Motherhood - taken for granted for centuries - is now the subject of heated debates.