I'm not trying to sound like a saint, but we take for granted that we are healthy and able to live a certain way. |
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One aspect of the deconstructive turn is the realization that things that we take for granted as givens are in fact inventions. |
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It was a new kind of theatre, naturalistic, exploring social realism and psychological truth, the kind of theatre we take for granted today. |
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Brave people, who were fighting the black dog, want to experience the small and humble reality that so many of us take for granted, dignity. |
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Today, we take for granted many electronic products such as cellular phones, digital cameras, personal stereos, and printers. |
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Many of them feel excluded from a number of opportunities that the rest of us take for granted. |
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So many women of my generation take for granted that women had always had our freedoms. |
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This is a book that ought to be read to understand how women today got much of what they take for granted. |
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Routine chores, that other people may take for granted, have inevitably become a problem. |
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Under stress, whether real or manufactured, the institutions we take for granted are subject to change. |
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Living in a land of religious freedom, it is easy to take for granted the blessing of being able to worship freely and openly. |
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The most important weather phenomena on the planet, I would argue, are the seasons that we, in the temperate zones, take for granted. |
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No more will they have to face the daily domestic chores most of us take for granted. |
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She knows from bitter experience what it means to lose that basic liberty we all take for granted. |
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I am going to take for granted that you have done your homework and have a proposal that is worth seeing. |
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I don't understand a lot of things others take for granted, and I am left cold by fads such as postmodernism, etc. |
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She deserved antenatal care, a decent transport system all those things we take for granted in this part of the world. |
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It is presumptuous and oppressive to suggest that other cultures want the liberties we take for granted, their argument runs. |
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Individualism is a pretty new idea relatively speaking and one which most of us today take for granted. |
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Also touching is his rediscovery of things the rest of us tend to take for granted. |
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After all, few things can be more insidious than impure water, since water is one of the natural resources we take for granted. |
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Richey is looking forward to experiencing the things we take for granted, such as feeling grass under his feet. |
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That means that workers do not have the right to organise and conduct collective bargaining, which is something that we take for granted. |
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There was so much excitement and adventure in this story that really made me think about my life, in particular what I take for granted. |
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He doesn't take for granted the skills required to be a comedian or comic actor of quality. |
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We take for granted the unique shapes and contours of ourselves, as easily as we forget, or perhaps don't consider, our ancestry. |
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System overloads cause brief glitches and outages, draining the power we take for granted from our appliances and modern devices. |
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Zeiss pioneered many products and technologies we take for granted, such as roof-prism binoculars and anti-reflective lens coatings. |
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What if something we take for granted, something utterly predictable, suddenly became unpredictable and chaotic and disordered? |
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Yet she had to meet that demand without any of the formal backup that a minister or minor royal would take for granted. |
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Most of the modern conveniences we take for granted were invented less than a century ago and many of them just a few decades ago! |
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It was only in the nineteenth century that industrialization and financialization produced the liquidity we now take for granted. |
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Without the workers in this industry we would not enjoy the fish we take for granted. |
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It becomes instructively frustrating to discover how many terms we take for granted in discussing ways of knowing, for which we have only visually oriented vocabulary. |
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This language seems to take for granted that the armed forces of the parties to a conflict will abide by the four criteria specifically applicable to irregular troops. |
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We also should never take for granted or take lightly our responsibility to approach this problem with vigour, sophistication and intelligence. |
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For others, there is no bounty, and often it is their deprivation that subsidizes the choices that most of us take for granted. |
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Developing countries are not going to take for granted the situation that has been put to them with the only choice they have. |
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People take for granted how skilled he was as a craftsman, the simplicity of the writing, and how naturally it came. |
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I'd say I was surprised, except that the total unscrupulousness of this crew is by now something to take for granted. |
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The community of Brooks relied on my radio station for the local weather report which is something we take for granted. |
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These modern approaches which we now take for granted came from Greenwood's prescience and leadership. |
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Democracy is something we take for granted, although many of the nations represented here have only enjoyed it for a short while. |
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So what the government did was effectively take away from Aboriginal people some very essential civil rights, rights we take for granted. |
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If we have to work for a living, let's make it as fun as possible, and be thankful for the benefits that we sometimes take for granted. |
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Canadian judges are peripatetic and many of them take for granted the ability to remotely access court information systems. |
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We take for granted that these operations have been done, given that the relevant procedure has already been described. |
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These are a people who have never enjoyed the privileges that most of us take for granted. |
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Some questions referred to aspects that we take for granted for many years. |
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Let me also thank our hosts for the hospitality for which we are always grateful and which we never take for granted. |
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They die because they are too poor to buy the medicines that those of us in wealthy countries so often take for granted. |
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I have many peers and friends who do not have any of these benefits and would give their eye teeth to get what we take for granted. |
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The importance of these engagements, which we sometimes tend to take for granted, should always be kept in mind. |
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Canadians largely take for granted the reliability of their payments system. |
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This is an incredible testament to our customers' belief in FCC, something we do not take for granted. |
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In short, the new systems are worthy representatives of the kind of advanced irrigation technology that better situated farmers take for granted. |
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It has reminded me of the fragility of our lives and the things that we take for granted or believe that we could not live without. |
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We live in a wonderful country, full of opportunities and freedoms we often take for granted. |
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Relief came with the newer bucksaws but it wasn't until most of Hickey's wood-cutting days were over that the power saw, which we take for granted, became a tool of the trade. |
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We shall take for granted the extension of these ideas to computably convergent complex sequences, and the natural definitions of computable continuity. |
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Is the dial tone of the telephone something that you take for granted? |
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Although Hairston, Young, Becker and Pike take for granted that Rogers' theories are appropriate for use by rhetoricians as a means to persuade, this is not the case. |
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You know she had to bring me meals in bed, had to bath me, get me dressed, all the stuff that you take for granted, when you have a stroke you can't do those things anymore. |
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Sadly, too many players have ignored the rich chess tapestry that has shaped and colored the rules, strategies and openings that we take for granted today. |
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At the tiniest end of the spectrum, miniaturization is showing the promise of a nano-world, where everything we take for granted about the physical universe is up for grabs. |
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She really becomes the image of someone you might underestimate or take for granted. |
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But obstructionists are unmoved by the standard Keynesian arguments that experienced policy economists take for granted. |
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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. |
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There is undoubtedly some way to go before this emphatic concept of architecture which revolves entirely around the human element is something we take for granted. |
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Without the existence of an organized labor force, the typical worker would not enjoy the living wage, benefits and safety protections many take for granted. |
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It's something you can't take for granted. |
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As a society we need to be committed to helping all Canadians, including the Aboriginal community, to get to an even starting line, so everyone can participate in the lifestyle we take for granted in Canada. |
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Besides beef, tin fish and rice, bought in town, Santo has many foods that locals take for granted and that tourists enjoy as delicacies. |
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Without the right foster family, many vulnerable foster teens may never experience the kind of love and stability we take for granted. |
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The logistical considerations specified in the standard, which most able-bodied Canadians take for granted, will make the difference between the success and failure of hosting such a large, international event. |
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We take for granted the sound of rustling leaves, brown earth tones under a canopy of green and the smell of summer in our more southerly latitudes. |
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There are many everyday functions and activities that we take for granted. |
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Having safe drinking water is something many of us take for granted. |
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It makes me so happy because the kids who are getting the school supplies they need, they really don't take for granted little things like pencils. |
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In Egypt and Bahrain in recent weeks, I've been humbled by the lionhearted men and women I've seen defying tear gas or bullets for freedom that we take for granted. |
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Like good health, fine weather or a sound economy, peace and development are aspects of our existence which we take for granted, enjoy unthinkingly and only miss when we lose them. |
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In recent years, immigrants have become the most vocally patriotic of Canadian citizens. Unlike born Canadians, they are not inclined to take for granted the good things of life, Canadian-style. |
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This is important to note in view also of the very few statements made during the summit that deviated somewhat from this general consensus about the basic principles that we and others take for granted. |
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Common hygiene is something we very much take for granted in the western world, but in a camp of 30,000 people, disease is common and simple hygienic practices can mean life or death for thousands of people. |
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I believe that if we have an opportunity to give the chance to other people to come to this country for the freedom that we enjoy and, quite literally, take for granted, that we should offer those freedoms. |
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Residents of the working-class neighborhood of small stucco homes and white picket fences have eagerly awaited the sewer hookup that most Angelenos take for granted. |
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Being a mum or a dad is something many people take for granted and yet for those who cannot conceive, the elusiveness of that dream can be devastating and all-consuming. |
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I wanted to use the films to help people reengage with the area and to remind them of some of the fantastic landmarks in the region, that perhaps we take for granted. |
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As people get older and the cost of available travel increases, living in our remote rural communities can mean missing out on things others take for granted. |
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Extensive back matter encourages readers to embark on their own research journeys to learn more about an everyday item that they take for granted. |
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The hypersaturated media and political attention we take for granted today depends on a system of communication that is fast, reliable and far-reaching. |
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