How To Use Taken for granted In A Sentence
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The recession blindsided a lot of lawyers who had previously taken for granted their comfortable income.
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Though severely and repeatedly strained, the deal has come to be taken for granted as a linchpin of the fragile Middle Eastern order. But new stresses may test neighbourly relations as never before.
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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
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His mother - whose preference for himself, devotion to himself, he had always taken for granted.
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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.
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Arthur Miller's drama has so long been accorded canonical status that it can easily be taken for granted.
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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.
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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
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We are having to re-educate the public very quickly about something they have always taken for granted.
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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
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Motherhood - taken for granted for centuries - is now the subject of heated debates.
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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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Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted. Sylvia Plath
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The organic connection between the four elements was taken for granted.
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Such basics are taken for granted -- or can be easily worked upon, given time.
THE CALLIGRAPHER
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That such questions mattered always used to be taken for granted and what worries him now is that they no longer are.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yet public opinion had been captured, and it was taken for granted that lynching was a just response to the barbarous sexual crimes against white womanhood.
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Now, its taken for granted the puck is going hit some part of the fearless, athletic, and enormous monster in the net.
Matthew Yglesias » America The Beautiful
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Hard men sometimes have soft centres and there's nothing more hurtful than to be taken for granted.
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To the organisers of these events, it brings days and nights of unpaid work that is often taken for granted by those competing.
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That is, political parties and their explicit policies have simply been obsolesced by the images presented by the party leaders, on the one hand, and the services taken for granted by the community, regardless of the party that happens to be in power, on the other hand.
The End of the Work Ethic
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Labour is a trade union party so it was taken for granted it would fully implement the social chapter of the Maastricht Treaty.
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Like they meant something she could comprehend like he'd taken for granted she knew the alphabet and could " alphabetize " his papers.
THE TATTOOED GIRL
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Dravid's batsmanship has often been taken for granted because it is so firmly rooted in orthodoxy, because it is so utterly comprehensible and so utterly lacking in mystique.
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Up to now, we have in practice taken for granted that the State is not the source of morality and legitimacy but a system that brokers, mediates and attempts to co-ordinate the moral resources of those specific communities, the merely local and the credal or issue-focused, which actually make up the national unit.
Both Crosses and Veils Must be Allowed - Times Article
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In most applications of preference logic, it is taken for granted that the following property, called completeness or connectedness, should be satisfied:
Preferences
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The fact that it eventually settled for patriotic loyalism could not be taken for granted.
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Overall, European acquiescence in the campaign can be taken for granted.
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Too often taken for granted, the campaign against all-seater stadia is gathering pace and is uniting fans around the country.Sentencedict
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Brenda Cooper talks about Artificial Intelligence in her first Futurismic column: "The futurist in me now believes AI will be with us in a thousand small ways - as taken for granted as always-on email or mobile music - long before we approach most of the fictional treatments of AI.
SF Tidbits for 6/5/09
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Even when it is supposed the text as published is somehow corrupt or miscopied, it is still taken for granted that the definitive version of the text as intended is a meaningful concept.
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In fact, wailing babies are taken for granted on a bus trip.
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The boxes also contain everyday items taken for granted in much of the world, things like toothpaste, toothbrush, flannels, soap, gloves and scarves.
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A natural tenacity and cussedness led her to espouse many causes which today are taken for granted - women's rights and contraception, for example - but which were then considered slightly odd.
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His attempts at being universal are taken for granted; after all, literature, since Aristotle, has been seen—often purblindly—as a “universal” category.
The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories
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The work carried out by crossing patrols is often taken for granted but it is integral to the community.
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Almost everywhere these edifices of civil engineering, the basis of life in urban Britain, have been taken for granted.
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The reign of Alexander III did a great deal to extend the power of the tsar at the expense of liberties taken for granted in Western Europe.
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Though they have slipped back in recent years the girls from Model County are far from pushovers and should not be taken for granted.
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But over time and aided by unidirectional modernism the communal aspects have not only been taken for granted but also alienated.
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The evidence off the bench cannot be taken for granted.
Times, Sunday Times
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Alongside the other strategic arguments in its favour, the economics of the uranium fuel cycle had been taken for granted.
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We also pioneered many safety features that are taken for granted today, including crumple zones that absorb the energy of a crash, anti-lock brakes (ABS) and traction control.
Stephen Cannon: HuffPost Gamechangers: Technology
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Meryl is so taken for granted that people don’t recognize it’s one of the best performances of the year.
Top 10 Reasons the 2010 Oscars Will Fail » Scene-Stealers
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And this idea has been peddled by the intellectual elite in Britain for many years, more assiduously than anywhere else, to the extent that it is now taken for granted.
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It also seemed to have been taken for granted that it was the source of the evil smell that lingered in the room.
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A couple of years ago we'd be blasé about it because, it was taken for granted that you could raise dollops of cash and break into the meteoric world of the industry.
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For example, the most invidious acts of discrimination on grounds of sex, race and sexual orientation may result not from individual misconduct, but from ‘taken for granted’ assumptions about what is appropriate.
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Water is a precious commodity too long taken for granted in the West.
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We have drifted for too long, allowed ourselves to be taken for granted for too long and we have tolerated analysis and further analysis of analysis, in place of action for too long." broadcast from Friday night is a classic case of the nebulous and untranslated 'overthink' the party has indulged itself in during the last twelve years which has seen party support decline from 22% to 15% of the vote.
Slugger O'Toole
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Arthur Miller's drama has so long been accorded canonical status that it can easily be taken for granted.
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Landowners feel they are being taken for granted and nobody has the manners or the courtesy to ask permission to pass through their private lands.
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I think it’s important to remember when looking at stuff like this that even among scientists there isn’t instant acceptance of ideas now taken for granted: plate tectonics is now the broadly-accepted theory that it is basically because its naysayers have all died off.
The evolution of man | clusterflock
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The evidence off the bench cannot be taken for granted.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was taken for granted that children would accompany their parents to church and sit quietly through a sermon lasting forty to fifty minutes.
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Waymarsh had then taken for granted was doubled, decupled now.
The Ambassadors
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Only the amount of response Waymarsh had then taken for granted was doubled, decupled now.
The Ambassadors
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Like they meant something she could comprehend like he'd taken for granted she knew the alphabet and could " alphabetize " his papers.
THE TATTOOED GIRL
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The link between astronomy and astrology could no longer be taken for granted.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The link between astronomy and astrology could no longer be taken for granted.
The Times Literary Supplement
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It also triggers us to recognize our dependencies, our complacencies, and those everyday things we have taken for granted.
Kingsley Dennis, Ph.D.: Our Social Crises -- From Breakdown to Breakthrough
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The Air Force fears that the dominance of U.S. airpower has been so complete for so long that it is taken for granted.
The Last Ace
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On a broader level, the book also illustrates the way the trajectories of technological change cannot be taken for granted.
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Dr Masters said that these principles were at one time taken for granted by Nonconformist preachers.
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The thought woke me up to re-examine what I had taken for granted.
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One picked it up at random to chuckle over its wicked insights, its barbed phrases, and its corrosive view of society in which elements of ridiculousness, cruelty, and barbarousness nestled in close juxtaposition with things taken for granted and worn smooth with custom and careless handling.
The Worldly Philosophers
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Alongside the other strategic arguments in its favour, the economics of the uranium fuel cycle had been taken for granted.
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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
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Soldiering for profit was taken for granted for thousands of years, but the United States has thrived in an age when soldiering for the state - serving your country - has taken on an exalted status.
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The link between astronomy and astrology could no longer be taken for granted.
The Times Literary Supplement
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They awakened interest in nature study and gave new values to much we had hitherto taken for granted.
Scottish Voices 1745-1960
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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
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The National has reached a crossroads; its survival cannot and should not be taken for granted.
Times, Sunday Times
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The evidence off the bench cannot be taken for granted.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was a time when William's importance, even greatness, was taken for granted.
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It was a nice fantasy: a controlled environment of safely autoclaved friends , where a certain sterility is taken for granted, even encouraged.
How Facebook Exposed Us All as Freaks
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The danger here, however, is when the reasons for coining a term are forgotten, and repeated usage hardens it into something taken for granted and unexamined.
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That such questions mattered always used to be taken for granted and what worries him now is that they no longer are.
Times, Sunday Times
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In a country that has seen six presidents in five years, political chaos is taken for granted.
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'' Strine '' takes on Shakespearean lyricism is more or less taken for granted.
The Canberra Times - Front Page
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Alternately, go on and vote Republican and you'll have noone but yourselves to blame when McCain appoints up to three conservatives to the Supreme Court and things you've taken for granted, things your predecessors fought and struggled for, evaporate.
Analysis: Clinton scores a win, Obama nears finish line
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Real friendship is a rare and precious gift, strong, stable, yet fragile, and never to be taken for granted.
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Economic chaos of the first period of freedom nearly destroyed education and social services that had been taken for granted.
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The result was to stir up constant questions about what might previously be taken for granted.
The English Civil War: A People's History
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I suspect that I am not alone in having the feeling of being taken for granted by politicians at all levels and of all shades and hues.
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The link between astronomy and astrology could no longer be taken for granted.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Like they meant something she could comprehend like he'd taken for granted she knew the alphabet and could " alphabetize " his papers.
THE TATTOOED GIRL
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The young student of diplomacy, knowing Palmerston, must have taken for granted that Palmerston inspired this motion and would support it; knowing Russell and his Whig antecedents, he would conceive that Russell must oppose it; knowing Gladstone and his lofty principles, he would not doubt that Gladstone violently denounced the scheme.
Political Morality (1862)
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If the position is as it appears to be then rightish and even moderate Conservatives must start reminding Cameron that they cannot betaken for granted and that without us he has nothing.
Comment 1 ( Dale )
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… Reading — a defining characteristic of civilization as far back as ancient Greece when all Athenian citizens were expected to know how to read — is now taken for granted in industrialized democracies.
Literacy News – 63th Edition « News « Literacy News
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The availability of such compounds is taken for granted these days, but the laborious task of extracting glutamine from kilogram quantities of mangel-wurzels clearly made an impression on the young Williamson.
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The mercury sphygmomanometer is a reliable device, but all too often its continuing efficiency has been taken for granted, whereas the aneroid manometer, which is not generally as accurate, is often assumed to be as reliable.
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They awakened interest in nature study and gave new values to much we had hitherto taken for granted.
Scottish Voices 1745-1960
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Here is a pianist who not only understands the power of quiescence, but celebrates it: no silence is taken for granted, no pianissimo is abused for something it is not, no fermata is dismissed as excessive or unnecessary.
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Water is a precious commodity that is often taken for granted in the West.
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But Popper's ideas themselves, Feyerabend alleges, were not new to him, deductivism having been defended as early as 1925 by Viktor Kraft, and falsificationism being “taken for granted” at Alpbach.
Paul Feyerabend
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It's sad and depressing, and I don't want it to become merely taken for granted and unremarked.
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Because a number of the mechanical conveniences taken for granted in the West are not widely affordable, most women work harder at home than American women do.
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There are certain preliminaries which, we imagine, must be taken for granted.
Defence of Canada
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Water is a precious commodity too long taken for granted in the West.
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But it took a long time for me to restore the mental equilibrium that I had once taken for granted.
Times, Sunday Times
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Intimations Ode is sounded early on in the cognate object "sing a joyous song" (l. 19): echoic token of that pastoral "There was a time" (l. 1) when birds were everywhere and full-throated — and where the epithet "joyous" was as taken for granted, in the tautologies of the prefallen, as that prelinguistic song sung.
Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
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They are often taken for granted as the wound innately granulates, contracts, and epithclializes under optimal conditions.
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Water is a precious commodity that is often taken for granted in the West.
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Though it is taken for granted in the developed world, mass education is a relatively recent phenomenon.
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Till not so long ago TV viewers had so many channels to choose from that channel-surfing almost came to be taken for granted.
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Intimations Ode is sounded early on in the cognate object "sing a joyous song" (l. 19): echoic token of that pastoral "There was a time" (l. 1) when birds were everywhere and full-throated — and where the epithet "joyous" was as taken for granted, in the tautologies of the prefallen, as that prelinguistic song sung.
Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
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Given the extent to which it is taken for granted today, it can be difficult to fully appreciate the truly innovative and radical approach Frege took to logic.
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The homiletic magazines omitted idealism and imagination; but perhaps those qualities are so common in what some people are pleased to call our humdrum modern business life that they were taken for granted.
The Rules of the Game
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His various travelogues in Britain for BBC television, as guide, seeker of and commentator on the out-of-the-way, opened many English eyes to what they'd taken for granted or had been told they mustn't admire.
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If Chuang-tzu's "live without dreams, " or taken for granted, then the Lieh-tzu's "live without dreams, " then have a very solid theoretical basis.
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Because they had sworn an oath to their lord, it was taken for granted that they had sworn a similar oath to the duke, earl or baron who owned that lord's property.
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The family operates as a cognitive schema, which is mostly doxic, that is, invisible, naturalised and taken for granted.
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Mirroring the philosophy of the eponymous hero, cast members refused to be taken for granted when the theatre talked of extending their run.
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They do at least imply a stable society in which marriage is indissoluble and family loyalty taken for granted.
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It is taken for granted that men do and should occupy the leadership roles and make the important decisions.
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They want to be treated with respect, not taken for granted as low paid skivvies.
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Logic, or Analytic, as the theory or method of arriving at true or apodeictic conclusions; and (2) Dialectic as the method of arriving at conclusions that are accepted or pass current as true, [Greek: endoxa] probabilia; conclusions in regard to which it is not taken for granted that they are false, and also not taken for granted that they are true in themselves, since that is not the point.
The Art of Controversy
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They were poor girls, but they were still girls; they wanted the frilly dresses and ruffly skirts and glorious hats that Jane had always taken for granted.
Uprising
