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" The Chancellor warned, "Nothing can be taken for granted.
I had taken for granted that people would be supportive.
They want to show they can't be taken for granted.
"This is not to be taken for granted," he said.
But its approval cannot be taken for granted (see article).
The importance of human capital is now taken for granted.
That love, however fleeting, should never be taken for granted.
"Nothing can be taken for granted," the French president warned.
I don't want to see any vote taken for granted.
The party should not be taken for granted, it said.
They are not to be sidelined and taken for granted.
"We get taken for granted too much," Mr. Bulls said.
Overwhelming gratitude for a thing so easily taken for granted.
And other states are often taken for granted (i.e. Wisconsin).
I lost my independence [which] I had taken for granted.
But that doesn't mean they can be taken for granted.
But the rule of law cannot be taken for granted.
But that's something we've all taken for granted until now.
It's kind of taken for granted that people die without consequences.
The ability to fall asleep easily is severely taken for granted.
It is taken for granted that he is an unusual candidate.
Ivory Coast's recent relative stability should not be taken for granted.
I've realized that life is not to be taken for granted.
Rights taken for granted for decades could now be at risk.
Work I'd mistaken for effortlessness, taken for granted, failed to notice.
In the TV and movie industry, it's almost taken for granted.
We are told our loyalty will never be taken for granted.
Their needs, their priorities, and their values taken for granted, again.
However ... real price appreciation can no longer be taken for granted.
"Our central role must not be taken for granted," he warned.
But several GOP senators complained Tuesday about being taken for granted.
None of this is to be taken for granted, of course.
Mr. Speaker, I refuse to be ignored and taken for granted.
Indeed, their approval of the Brexit deal cannot be taken for granted.
"Western technological superiority, once taken for granted, is increasingly challenged," said Chipman.
According to experts, none of those possibilities can be taken for granted.
The Christian conservatives are sick and tired of being taken for granted.
Life is so amazing and it should never be taken for granted.      
This cannot be taken for granted should the treaty get shot down.
I know what it means to be underestimated and taken for granted.
The working class is no longer willing to be taken for granted.
Like having regular elections, it's a norm that's been taken for granted.
As Israel learned earlier this year, nothing should be taken for granted.
"It seems to be taken for granted," the Guadalajara-born artist says.
The right to vote is something that can't be taken for granted.
It gets people to consider something that maybe they've taken for granted.
They are also aware that his defeat cannot be taken for granted.
Good mental health, like good physical health, is often taken for granted.
Barker is clear that it should not, however, be taken for granted.
Already, French voting has upset common trends taken for granted by pollsters.
Since 1945 it is the thing we have all taken for granted.
The work of journalists is taken for granted, both implicitly and explicitly.
"The presence of hate has become taken for granted," Mr. Spielberg said.
He showed that in politics, absolutely nothing can be taken for granted.
Maybe it's taken for granted, but the innovation is second to none.
The idea of moving up in politics is almost taken for granted.
Ordinary amenities taken for granted in big cities are all but absent.
Water is one of life's daily essentials, and often taken for granted.
The above does not imply that Europe should be taken for granted.
Before that, I'd taken for granted that my parents would remain protected.
It's because here, rape isn't a sideshow, and it isn't taken for granted.
For we, Australians, in 221 freedom from fear is almost taken for granted.
For one thing, this time Kissinger's Republican preference cannot be taken for granted.
It forms the taken-for-granted common sense that animates US foreign policy.
Today, the museum and the cause of Holocaust remembrance are taken for granted.
But understandably, the will to bear that burden cannot be taken for granted.
Eventually, Prey calls into question everything you've taken for granted about its world.
For we, Australians, in 2016 freedom from fear is almost taken for granted.
However, nothing can be taken for granted in the treacherous and tricky conditions.
This is thanks to an often taken for granted technology: releasable ski bindings.
For most of us, water for washing and drinking is taken for granted.
Those trends cannot be taken for granted by those in Washington in 2019.
"This is the most taken-for-granted barbecue house in America," he said.
Behavior patterns vary by user, but some things can be taken for granted.
The work USAID and other organizations do should not be taken for granted.
Kids might be upset by the way Pig's toil is taken for granted.
I want my love to be part of her taken-for-granted background.
This is how a nation survives, in its most taken-for-granted details.
For her, it wasn't so much lost as always there, taken for granted.
But Lumbee support cannot be guaranteed or taken for granted by either party.
In this new world we're living in, nothing can be taken for granted.
Over their long and productive careers, certain important artists are taken for granted.
What have they taken for granted that might not, after all, be true?
It's taken for granted that such a thing as that is beneath contempt.
In every workplace, including the home, women's work is often taken for granted.
The growing nationalist populists are really sick and tired of being taken for granted.
The improvements shouldn't be overlooked, nor should reports like these be taken for granted.
And because of that, many of its original innovations are now taken for granted.
The study is a reminder that support for democracy cannot be taken for granted.
Some people may have taken for granted that I'd been around for a while.
Today, the idea of women serving on the Supreme Court is taken for granted.
Water is life and this cannot be underestimated or taken for granted in 2016.
A sense of security was not something that could be always taken for granted.
For most of history, we've taken for granted the implicit brutality of male sexuality.
The emotive penetration of a sound as we perceive it is taken for granted.
It's widely taken for granted that matters of principle aren't weighing on him here.
In truth, throughout the nineteen-sixties Paul's musical primacy was largely taken for granted.
For a long time, the notion that truth threatens totalitarianism was taken for granted.
Gillum's victory shows that we can no longer be ignored or taken for granted.
He said black lawmakers and their constituents have long felt they're taken for granted.
I came here to represent the people who are ignored and taken for granted.
How quickly it can fade, disappear — things taken for granted be threatened, be gone.
Serving is an honor and a privilege that I have never taken for granted.
His presence is taken for granted; it rarely occurs to anyone to question it.
When it comes to wellness, water is a staple — but it's also taken for granted.
He warned that the support of the US government should not be taken for granted.
A miracle may always happen, but a miracle is not to be taken for granted.
But you don't want to be taken for granted or become part of the furniture.
But there are also rare instances in which party discipline has been taken for granted.
Thinkers are asking difficult questions about things that have been taken for granted for years.
Now this kind of convenience is taken for granted, but in 1995, it was newsworthy.
Photo: GettyAfter centuries of being taken for granted, the swing has finally gotten its due.
"Phoenix artists have been taken for granted," Isaac once told a reporter for 944 Magazine .
But, but, but: The analysis shows why none of this can be taken for granted.
All of these realms involve humans — and far too often, humans are taken for granted.
Policy frameworks and governing norms that were once taken for granted are now being questioned.
They desire affirmation, to be validated, to be seen, and not be taken for granted.
It's taken for granted that everyone knows how to do it and what it is.
It shouldn't be taken for granted that the internet will remain an equal playing field.
Mitsuki is the plain sister, doomed to be taken for granted by her starstruck mother.
I began to wonder how much energy is spent on something often taken for granted.
Our occasional infrastructure disruptions offer blunt reminders that essential services cannot be taken for granted.
But with that more diverse base comes a desire not to be taken for granted.
It is taken for granted that poor children have no future, that they are disposable.
Pepper" — that anything goes in the studio — has long since been taken for granted. "Sgt.
As we have learned in recent weeks, no senators' votes can be taken for granted.
One fact can be taken for granted: Its thousands of fighters will not melt away.
Such basic workplace protections and constraints on the free market are now taken for granted.
An agreement is far from certain, and UK parliamentary support cannot be taken for granted.
That said, a slowdown in ad blocker growth is not to be taken for granted.
Because they are never explicitly celebrated, I feel that their work is taken for granted.
The intended audience for these ads — white people primed for such tactics — is taken for granted.
A senior legislator from Trudeau's ruling Liberal Party told reporters nothing could be taken for granted.
Those consumers are always able to leave, and their sentiment should never be taken for granted.
As long as Apple's software is taken for granted, iOS innovations lack financial differentiation, Rosensweig said.
Hispanics will be the majority minority voters in 2020, and they cannot be taken for granted.
And in ways that may be eventually taken for granted, which would be according to plan.
Artists need to recognize that this opportunity we have is not to be taken for granted.
As it is, those voters and those issues are ignored, because they are taken for granted.
"Some people may have taken for granted that I'd been around for a while," he continued.
Shouldn't it just be taken for granted that I would be studying, or going to work?
All the stage craft we had taken for granted had to be looked at very carefully.
Their votes get taken for granted, and the presidential candidates ignore them during the general election.
Ubiquitous though they may be, the humble modern toothbrush is nothing to be taken for granted.
But today, when peace is taken for granted, the deficit of justice is all that remains.
This (very partial) list shows that natural gas's value proposition is no longer taken for granted.
Being taken for granted for a long time is why people are getting tired with austerity.
In his day, this superb American tenor was so dependable he was almost taken for granted.
It's on us to invent other ways to unearth white supremacy from the taken-for-granted.
He's always taken for granted that it will always be there, and now, it's really wanting.
Those values were mostly taken for granted in this country, but should not be any longer.
Rediscovering wines I had taken for granted is perhaps the most gratifying part of my job.
Only now I've realized what a necessity it is, and how easily it's taken for granted.
These opportunities were all fought for and things that are taken for granted by American citizens.
But O'Rourke's advance is at the very least a metaphor: Nothing can be taken for granted.
Seat assignments on flights are often taken for granted but can make or break a flight.
Now we've reached the point where the expanded universe of TV is just taken for granted.
Charles M. Blow My whole life I have taken for granted America's leadership in the world.
Books that are taken for granted may be considered a costly luxury in lower-income areas.
In addition, the world is recognizing this administration as one that cannot be taken for granted.
It used to be taken for granted: If the economy is growing, we'll need more stores.
At this point, sidewalks are usually taken for granted, something we use but don't often consider.
Congrats to the new president who appreciates that middle America is sick of being taken for granted.
In traditional games, obstacles and enemies are often taken for granted as a type of necessary evil.
The existence of drones and smartphones is taken for granted, and virtual worlds follow current VR conventions.
But Florida is the ultimate swing state -- and no statewide race there can be taken for granted.
However, Salvini, who is head of the far-right League, said nothing could be taken for granted.
Continuing excellence Maintaining quality as a show ages is always a challenge, and sometimes taken for granted.
The benefits of globalisation are widely dispersed, often unseen and thus all too easily taken for granted.
These companies have invested billions in building out networks that are now taken for granted by consumers.
Wolf is the slight favorite, but nothing can be taken for granted here after Trump's shocking win.
It is now more or less taken for granted that solar panels are getting cheaper and cheaper.
Access to that kind of information should not be taken for granted: it should be handled responsibly.
While prices have rebounded since the 2014 market collapse, nothing can be taken for granted, said Maurice.
It used to be taken for granted that musicians made music, actors acted, and chefs made food.
Biden's rescuers weren't party elders but a marginalized constituency that is often taken for granted: Southern blacks.
And her effectiveness in holding together her caucus should not be taken for granted, as Chait notes.
To be taken for granted by someone you once deeply loved carries its own kind of horror.
After 10 days on the road, my main takeaway was this: Europe cannot be taken for granted.
Among world leaders, a command of English is often taken for granted, even when translators are present.
"Financial literacy should not be taken for granted," Lusardi tells Stephen Dubner on a recent Freakonomics podcast.
Mr. Trump has realized that Washington's leadership in the region can no longer be taken for granted.
I realize that being a citizen of this country is not something to be taken for granted.
Dorian crushed it, stripping all essentials, schedules and routines — everything residents and visitors had taken for granted.
There are so many things we had taken for granted, like the constant availability of hot water.
The elder's greatness is taken for granted, while the younger trips along behind, in awe and wonder.
Last time we ran, it was basically taken for granted," Biden said on NBC's "Meet the Press.
Last time we ran it was basically taken for granted," Biden said on NBC's "Meet the Press.
Rapid climate changes could also disrupt existing market conditions often taken for granted by corporate leaders, he said.
The ideological victories Barbie's creation secured are so great and enduring that they are often taken for granted.
And in fact, it was soon taken for granted that a consequence of cloning was an early grave.
Gains that had been taken for granted over the course of the last nine years were in jeopardy.
Moreover, the idea that Britain can at least revert to WTO rules has long been taken for granted.
But today we discuss what we can do with these devices, and the connectivity is taken for granted.
But the good parts of social media have become so taken for granted that we've stopped praising them.
Since then, I feel like nothing shouldn't be taken for granted, because it's all hanging by a thread.
He's established and, in many ways, taken for granted, with best days that may still be to come.
So taken for granted are corruption and impunity that the country's official and criminal classes are often indistinguishable.
Yet NATO's continued ability to protect its member states and bolster global stability cannot be taken for granted.
The longstanding principles of individual success, taken for granted by an older generation, are moving out of fashion.
Sometimes a team's record can be taken for granted, but relatively often there are weaknesses to be addressed.
It's also a reminder that the future health of the team's cornerstone can not be taken for granted.
Behavior and performance that was previously discretionary now becomes increasingly expected or taken for granted by the employer.
It's almost like NBA players and teams have taken for granted one of the game's most advantageous scenarios.
Patrick's general election victory was almost taken for granted after that vertiginous ascent, but it was historic nonetheless.
Commercial forces have changed since the era of "Supernatural," when obeisance to radio formats was taken for granted.
Still, their central feature — the radical dualism he constructs between the sexes — tends to be taken for granted.
Such decline has created a powerful feeling of being ignored by Westminster and taken for granted by Labour.
"It was underlined that the still favourable financing conditions could not be taken for granted," the ECB added.
In the meantime, we're doing our best with the resources we're given, which shouldn't be taken for granted.
Gen X is the first generation to lose several retirement benefits the previous generations had taken for granted.
Supporters of Garland also see this as a possibility, though they note nothing can be taken for granted.
Instead she drew attention to the fact that black voters, especially black women, are often taken for granted.
In a world where male contrition isn't taken for granted, it is given space and wins exaggerated praise.
This commodity that we had taken for granted was no longer freely available, and we needed to adapt.
Even in the developed countries that Mr. Tello called categorically different, institutional health can't be taken for granted.
"We've long taken for granted that norms and practice were enough to mitigate overreaches of power," Chenoweth says.
"Here I am … this new, young, white guy, who comes along saying, 'look at my great plans,' to voters who have been taken for granted or felt taken for granted again and again and again, which means that high bar is high for a very good reason," Buttigieg said in Orangeburg.
The underlying tragedy of Dolores' consciousness is the necessary loss of faith in everything she'd once taken for granted.
It suits the Europeans to flirt with China, to show America that they should not be taken for granted.
Now that helicopters and on-board swimming pools are taken for granted, the battle has moved onto new ground.
"For too long black women have been a reliable voting bloc and we've been taken for granted," she said.
These agreements are the result of decades of building trust, and should not be taken for granted, Swan said.
Outsiders often think an alien language has "no word for" a concept that is taken for granted in English.
But in the hours and days following the end of the Maduro regime, little can be taken for granted.
Nowadays, though, every phone is capable of standard GPS to the point that the technology is taken for granted.
But what about something simple — something so fundamental to daily life that it's easily taken for granted — like light?
It's hard to know exactly how the President will move forward now, but nothing can be taken for granted.
McKinley thus broadened the electoral battlefield, forcing Democrats to expend resources defending states they had previously taken for granted.
It's taken for granted that the patient would leave with heart medication and a referral to a cardiac specialist.
Back then, it felt like humanity's ability to feed itself, long taken for granted, rested on a knife's edge.
"The African-American community has been taken for granted for decades and look how they are doing," he said.
Our weatherproof shelter, taken for granted during the long hot days, has proven its worth on this wet one.
Americans have long taken for granted the influence of massive corporations and Wall Street on all aspects of society.
Over 20 years on, it's taken for granted that Tokyo has the look of a cyberpunk or anime film.
Similarly, its significance as a showcase for Latino culture and talent has, by now, practically been taken for granted.
The insidious notion that our credit history speaks to our reliability as human beings is largely taken for granted.
Here, a transactional approach to sex and power is often taken for granted as the natural order of things.
People just assumed that Americans were there, taken for granted, and I think he's finally making people respect us.
Still, Mr. Garton Ash sees 1918 as a warning that democracy and peace can never be taken for granted.
It is, at this point, taken for granted that congressional Republicans will protect their co-partisan at any cost.
It's taken for granted that people are various creatures, and that such variety is cause for celebration, not censure.
And indeed, the episode is a reminder that an open and educated discourse cannot be taken for granted, anywhere.
To have the lights on, the television running and kitchen appliances humming is often taken for granted in America.
So why are Hispanic activists complaining about being ignored and taken for granted by the Democratic candidates for president?
These trips are a reminder that the success stories of Washington's businesses and growers can't be taken for granted.
It's often said our electricity is so taken for granted that we believe it comes from the light switch.
It reminds her of how the rivers that sustain us ebb and flow -- they cannot be taken for granted.
Items taken for granted by the public, like spacesuits, may be inadequate to meet the rhetorical needs of politicians.
PBS is alternately besieged and taken for granted, but when cooler heads seldom prevail, it remains welcome and necessary.
"The suburban counties just cannot be taken for granted," said Bill Miller, a GOP lobbyist and consultant in Texas.
While Biden might have the majority of the black vote now, his support can't really be taken for granted.
If you're a member of the dominant group, your identity is taken for granted precisely because it's not threatened.
The shock that things that I'd previously taken for granted could be either enhanced or broken by external factors.
"It is something that was totally taken for granted and never really thought about by most people," says Koga.
But in every workplace, whether it's the home or the corporate boardroom, women's work is often taken for granted.
But a clear sense of cataclysm, of everything that was once taken for granted being torn to shreds, pervades throughout.
Then it becomes at a certain point taken for granted if you're a celebrity, and then it becomes totally annoying.
They cannot be taken for granted and have fueled the winning base of every Democratic nominee since Bill Clinton 1992.
America quickly became part of the furniture -- taken for granted and said no to by both parties and the Saudis.
As I waded in, I learned many things that defied pretty much everything I had taken for granted about breastfeeding.
Some of the things taken for granted in ordinary families are so far removed from ours it's difficult to fathom.
I guess I've sort of taken for granted the idea that Malcolm X would be in complete opposition to Trump.
Again, the US has had stealth bombers for decades, so stealthy nuke delivery is taken for granted in some circles.
The other difference with Lords reform is that any Brexit deal needs EU agreement, which cannot be taken for granted.
It's just human nature that when people do too much and don't ever push back, they get taken for granted.
God has given you one of the best voices, crazy work ethic and [a] platform you've never taken for granted.
Russians speak Russian; English skills can't be taken for granted, especially outside the subcultural capitals of St. Petersburg and Moscow.
Today the tools invented by these administrative reformers are largely taken for granted, assimilated into the everyday workings of government.
Black pepper is taken for granted in our cooking; we add it unthinkingly, in mild quantities, to almost every dish.
Thankfully, the availability of cheap, effective whitening kits has made white teeth both more common and more taken for granted.
Though it is now largely taken for granted that "women's rights are human rights," this was not always the case.
Could it be that the one thing that is taken for granted is the biggest problem with buildings as products?
"There's a certain amount of bluster that's taken for granted when you're dealing with North Korea," the official told Reuters.
Griffin's improved defense deserves a standing ovation, but Jordan starts at center on the NBA's All-Taken-For-Granted Team.
While most polls have put the president ahead, they could not be taken for granted, a senior government official said.
After stops in Germany, above, France, Italy and Poland, here's our reporter's main takeaway: Europe cannot be taken for granted.
"The eastern Mediterranean for many years was taken for granted," Geoffrey Pyatt, the American ambassador to Greece, told VICE News.
But one rationale that came up repeatedly this week was that they did not want to be taken for granted.
Likewise, my devotion to the ones I love is inseparable from the sense that they cannot be taken for granted. . . .
Today, Du Bois's insights are taken for granted by most historians, although they have not fully penetrated the national culture.
But it's role -- what's actually happening and the dollar's role in the world, you know, can't be taken for granted.
For generations they were taken for granted by the Republican Party when they were seen as a reliable voting bloc.
He also, again, emphasized the importance of impartial courts while warning his colleagues that this cannot be taken for granted.
"People value trees, but they're taken for granted, and it's hard to convince people that they're worth it," Robinson said.
Several GOP senators said they felt taken for granted as the White House bent over backwards to secure Democratic votes.
That could make them indispensable to the White House — or it could mean their support can be taken for granted.
But nothing can be taken for granted in Knives Out, except a satisfactory conclusion that wraps up the loose ends.
A second source added that a deal with UBI was already "taken for granted and could be finalised within days".
We're at one of those junctures where so little can be taken for granted, so much is up for grabs.
This isn't to say candidates shouldn't appeal to young people — they must, because our votes can't be taken for granted.
I think the 21st century idea of privacy—like so many other taken-for-granted concepts—may need a revamp.
The word "interactive" tends to get taken for granted in gaming, but we seldom think about what it actually means.
Today, virtual online communities or massively multiplayer online games like Club Penguin or World of Warcraft are taken for granted.
It is a project that demands listeners to throw everything out and to re-examine things they had taken for granted.
Although the acting was impeccable, there were times when my stake in a scenario seemed to have been taken for granted.
It used to be taken for granted that raising the minimum wage would lead to a reduction in low-wage jobs.
So it was kind of taken for granted that it was not happening at Pouzza, but I guess we were wrong.
And yet her surprise fourth place in the discipline at last year's Pyeongchang Olympics means nothing can be taken for granted.
But the chaos of the Trump administration extends into every branch of the government, so nothing can be taken for granted.
And yet, if nothing can be taken for granted and change rarely comes without a fight, there remains reason for optimism.
But the idea is taken for granted today — and you can basically get the Cinema PC experience with a $35 Chromecast.
And after childbirth, something once taken for granted (going to the bathroom) can suddenly feel really ominous: How will it work?
It is, to quote Greg Wittbecker, analyst at the CRU research house, one of those markets "people have taken for granted".
Quebec politics has become much more fluid in recent years and old-style alliances can no longer be taken for granted.
Much of that seismic shift, the transformation that spread specialization and trade around the world, is now simply taken for granted.
In the past, he says, Haitian-American votes have been taken for granted by the Democrats and "written off by Republicans".
In fact, it's been so successful at protecting America's water and promoting a strong economy that it gets taken for granted.
Even the availability of the trustworthy information on which free societies depend can, it seems, no longer be taken for granted.
They describe the reality around us in a way that makes visible what had previously been invisible or taken for granted.
The New Health Care Things like clean water, immunization and mosquito control are crucial, yet easily overlooked or taken for granted.
What makes me a nigger is that it is not taken for granted that my out-going impulse is my right.
Across campus, students are debating the merits of tying faith to politics — a subject that has always been taken for granted.
In the 1970s it was taken for granted there that a boy's leisure time would be spent in boisterous street games.
The incident is a reminder that science is collaborative and ideally self-correcting, but that nothing can be taken for granted.
India's cellular networks can be spotty and slow, and banking, credit cards and other financial mainstays cannot be taken for granted.
"For too long candidates have taken for granted the constituencies that have been the backbone of the Democratic Party," Harris said.
The health and strength of all of these foundations are critical to American democracy and should not be taken for granted.
In medicine, it is taken for granted that all people born before 25 had measles, whether they remember it or not.
And because science is everywhere in modern society, embedded in nearly every aspect of daily life, it is often taken for granted.
It's more like I ask a question that for a long time... It was taken for granted not to ask that question.
Kucinich supporters were taken for granted when the pro–Iraq War John Kerry reported for duty at the Democratic convention that year.
" Responding directly to that comment on Twitter, Haley said: "Actually it is when a country is tired of being taken for granted.
With ISIS's impending doom in Iraq taken for granted, analysts have started focusing on the potential aftermath of the battle for Mosul.
But they're as responsive as ever, and it's gratifying to have motion controllers taken for granted, not treated as an optional feature.
And other than that, when they were married, it was to be the homemaker, and that was very much taken for granted.
For the last decade, we've taken for granted the fact that game controllers no longer need to be tethered to your console.
It's taken for granted that the moral and philosophical rubrics of conservatism can be shed in pursuit of the basest immediate goals.
But that friendship must never be taken for granted, and your visit gives me the opportunity to reaffirm and to restate it.
The person genuinely invested in the work doesn't run from discomfort, they accept it as the price of personhood taken for granted.
They're spaces for contact, for community; places to embrace your desires in ways straight kids had for so long taken for granted.
Absentminded Yelping and indifferent glances at New York Times push notifications may now be taken-for-granted byproducts of the digital revolution.
But some black voters in Alabama say decades of being taken for granted by Democrats have them wondering why they should bother.
On a recent visit, I was struck by the determination of researchers stripped of the resources taken for granted in the West.
"There's a certain amount of bluster that's taken for granted when you're dealing with North Korea," the Trump administration official told Reuters.
Jane Jacobs wrote "Death and Life" at a time when it was taken for granted that American cities were riddled with cancer.
It was largely the same attitude wherever I went, with the relatively recent drought forgotten and water on tap taken for granted.
With great stories, when someone manages to give you insight into a moment you've taken for granted, that's what I found extraordinary.
But the scale of the World Cup, not to mention the potential for embarrassment, has meant nothing is being taken for granted.
" Responding directly to that comment on Twitter, Haley said: "Actually it is when a country is tired of being taken for granted.
"The most uncomfortable thing one can do is to question everything that is taken for granted and seek answers," writes Malli Gurram.
When paintings are written about, the painting support is taken for granted as an inert rectangular location upon which a performance takes place.
In fact, in many corners of the world, America's transformation from the indispensable ally to the unreliable one is now taken for granted.
The parts of daily life that were once taken for granted are suddenly gone, with no clear sense of when they'll be back.
Consumers are increasingly entrusting online services with all kinds of personal data — but that trust has been repeatedly abused or taken for granted.
Glen said there must be a "clear plan" to maintain the UK financial sector's global success as it cannot be taken for granted.
I realize the morals and values, the decency, we've perhaps taken for granted, individually and as citizens of the world, are in question.
Since inside the bubble it's already taken for granted that "the Clintons" are crooks, the bar for scandal exploitation is set impossibly high.
From the cocktail churches to the corner joints, this drink can be and has been made, included on menus, and taken for granted.
Voting Green is a powerful move, showing that your vote can't be taken for granted by politicians who don't act on your issues.
But, Clinton's analysis -- while broadly accurate -- misses (or takes for granted) a few things that should not be missed or taken for granted.
They become part of an urban landscape which is more and more taken for granted, in our eyes, and especially in our hearts.
It may seem Mickey Mouse on some levels to the fastest and most skilled drivers, but it can never be taken for granted.
Birthright citizenship -- that anyone born in the United States is automatically a US citizen -- is a concept that is generally taken for granted.
Such basic problem-solving is something we take for granted, but nothing can be taken for granted when it comes to robot brains.
It can be taken for granted that their perception of machines, and thus of the world itself, differs a lot from our own.
Had she, like so many other German Jews, taken for granted the tenacity of civilization long after it had begun to give way?
To eat it was like mystery evolving into delight, as flavors long taken for granted were rediscovered, as if for the first time.
If something is in a museum, then it must be a work of art: that simple statement is taken for granted by visitors.
I've taken for granted that we have clean air to breathe in cities, relatively speaking, and most people have access to clean water.
Mr. Abadi's blunder was a stark reminder that, with the election still more than three months out, nothing can be taken for granted.
We're a nation that believes freedom can never be taken for granted, and that each of us has a responsibility to sustain it.
Historians engaging with broader audiences are everywhere in 2019; that it is so common may explain why it is being taken for granted.
On Thursday, for the second program in this two-week engagement, Mr. Dudamel began with Schubert's Symphony No. 4, often taken for granted.
Michael Ortiz, 30, a New York tea distributor, said he had taken for granted that smoking marijuana would be O.K. with his girlfriend.
Her food tastes of gestures timeworn but never taken for granted, and of honest pleasure in what a handful of ingredients can do.
Some people are like that, like chairs in a room, taken for granted but not noticed, except when one wants to sit down.
Although rural America is now the GOP's electoral backbone, the Lamb win indicates that nothing and no one should be taken for granted.
A business model that seeks growth by cataloging our "every move, emotion, utterance and desire" is too radical to be taken for granted.
In short, political gerrymandering — in which it was taken for granted that Democrats sought an advantage — helped maximize the voice of African Americans.
It is not taken for granted as constitutive of a multiethnic democracy but treated as a kind of add-on, an extra feature.
However, its purpose is to show you what's not real: your fantasies, your logical assumptions, and the things you've taken for granted all along.
It seems as though the real secret to success as a female breadwinner is not letting anyone in the relationship feel taken for granted.
She will represent the Democrats' base: young, urban, diverse — the kind of voters whom many in the party urge cannot be taken for granted.
More to the point, while these services are taken for granted in markets like the US and UK, they are far from ubiquitous globally.
Players like Kentavious Caldwell-Pope are both essential and unspectacular in the exact kind of way that allows them to be taken for granted.
Places like Bilston can only benefit from political competition: nobody benefits from being taken for granted by one side and ignored by the other.
The post further proves just how much a seemingly mundane beauty ritual — like getting a haircut, in this instance — can be taken for granted.
That is not likely to convince Mr Trump, who won office declaring that America is being robbed, cheated and taken for granted by foreigners.
Even though women are half the population, we live in a world where it's taken for granted that the male perspective should be centered.
Reverie is also in the awkward position of depicting tech that's futuristic by real-world standards, but basically taken for granted in science fiction.
The film was gripping and explosive, and so much of that on-screen dynamism could be taken for granted by the viewer; until now.
He has not taken conventional thought on every single issue and has caused people to look at issues they may have taken for granted.
You have to ask yourself now, who is really serious about fixing problems in communities the Democrats have essentially taken for granted for years?
The latest supply disruption has been brewing for some time, serving as a reminder that the country's fragile recovery shouldn't be taken for granted.
The media hysteria over the blackness of the latest member into the family demonstrates how taken for granted the whiteness of the monarchy is.
Even so, with government debt set to exceed 90 percent of GDP next year, the support of foreign investors cannot be taken for granted.
It is because identities and values aren't taken for granted that acts of conspicuous consumption (or, in Morris's case, conspicuous destruction) become so appealing.
Labour is unlikely to lose the North East, says Mr Farr, but many voters feel they have been taken for granted for too long.
Because so few of us grow up close to stables and barnyards, the primal kinship between people and animals is easily taken for granted.
It was a secret to share with no one except the boy himself, to be taken for granted between them, not gone on about.
When you leave an employer to become a freelancer, you also abandon an in-house support system that you may have taken for granted.
If a President can use his power to enact political retribution, could freedoms that Americans have taken for granted for decades soon be imperiled?
Sanders may be a victim of his own success in a different way than the Times hypothesized: His popularity is now taken for granted.
But the attention they pay to what's wheat and what's chaff merits some approbation in a world where honesty can't be taken for granted.
These are young women who have grown up in Europe, where it is taken for granted that women can control much about their lives.
We need to give the voters who the Democrats have consistently taken for granted or written off a reason to turn out and vote.
More importantly, it's a close community, which is not something to be taken for granted in the increasingly transactional environs of the Premier League.
Allred has called for people to mobilize in the support of Clinton, urging people to realize that this election cannot be taken for granted.
But amid growing concern about social media's negative impact on social cohesion, that can't be taken for granted any more, and Zuckerberg knows it.
He acknowledges that his whirlwind ascent altered relationships and transfigured his behavior in Chicago, but doesn't feel taken for granted by the Bulls organization.
Such close scrutiny of nominees, now taken for granted, is relatively recent in the history of the Senate's exercise of its constitutional confirmation power.
Right-wing intensity is taken for granted; left-wing intensity faces furious opposition from the other party and disdainful scolding from half its own.
Former NBA star Charles Barkley is right: Democrats need to do a better job of supporting the people whose votes are taken for granted.
If NAFTA fails, meaningful cooperation on drugs, immigration, counterterrorism and the environment could no longer be taken for granted after a generation of progress.
"The rules-based international order" is eroding in a world where "nothing can be taken for granted any more in foreign policy," he said.
It's a message that resonates with anyone of any age who's ever felt overlooked, ignored, or taken for granted — which is to say, everyone.
As the title battle enters the second half of the season, the lead has gone back and forth and nothing can be taken for granted.
Art's context and surroundings are often taken for granted despite their potent ability to profoundly alter the experience and impact of a work of art.
He proved to himself that not only could he do more with his talents but that he wanted to, something he had taken for granted.
Taken for granted and unrelenting, black women remain the radicals on whom others can depend even if they know they can only depend on themselves.
It is a mystery why the technology is taking so long to catch on in the accommodation sector when it is taken for granted elsewhere.
I love this idea of returning to a mindset in which not a bite of food and not a single breath is taken for granted.
As extreme weather events become more common, the weather report—a daily marvel on which lives and livelihoods depend—should not be taken for granted.
Now in the middle of season five, the show has been on a roll for so long that its excellence may be taken for granted.
"The golden age of antibiotics which the world has taken for granted for well over fifty years has ended," wrote Sally Davies in the report.
The K103's sound balance is also very good and coherent, which shouldn't be taken for granted with all those drivers firing inside the enclosure.
As it is, tech can now help people who don't have basic access to things that are taken for granted elsewhere, such as credit access.
They have a right to, and a desire for the simple, taken-for-granted, life-improving technologies of the Western world, like refrigeration and electricity.
The issues and promises that Moscone campaigned upon now are taken for granted in most American cities, but in the 1970s they challenged powerful interests.
" Clyburn said he would turn the party's focus to winning over African Americans, particularly young ones, whom he thinks the Democrats have taken "for granted.
National and state party leaders, sensing that Mr. Menendez's seat could no longer be taken for granted, mounted a last-minute, all-out rescue effort.
"I will strive for us to live in a country where respect and decency can once again be taken for granted," Mr. Drahos has said.
The sacrifices of women are taken for granted, and it's just assumed that the men earned it all solely through their hard work and abilities.
All the big things that were once taken for granted are now under assault: globalization, capitalism, adherence to the Constitution, the American-led global order.
Balanchine takes eight of them, and makes them both formally and informally elegant, so that their bravery seems incidental, something to be taken for granted.
" But when the host comes across a bad guest or feels taken for granted, she said, "they say, 'Oh my God, I hate these people.
Their very structure is ripe for abuse by those in power, and suppression of those wishing to break through; consumers, meanwhile, are taken for granted.
These taken-for-granted conveniences are thanks to the increasing tendency of designers, architects, and planners toward "standardization" over the course of the 20th century.
But things he'd taken for granted as an able-bodied director — standing on set during shooting, quickly conveying changes to actors — were now formidable obstacles.
But the larger existence of a Russian government campaign to support the Trump campaign is simply taken for granted, with no further context or explanation.
Contemporary YA is a launching point for major franchises because, in a post- Harry Potter world, it is taken for granted that YA is universal.
My hope is that this will be a wake-up call to the national Democratic Party and the supporters that Michigan cannot be taken for granted.
"Nothing can be taken for granted, and this great achievement is now under assault by Russia," Fried said, referring to the freedom and security of Europe.
American policymakers—like their U.K. and EU counterparts—have taken for granted that an open global economy implies (and even requires) the mass migration of people.
Some of the most difficult challenges in the VR filmmaking space are incredibly basic features often taken for granted in modern cinema, Milk told the audience.
Acceptance in straight venues still simply cannot be taken for granted—hate crimes against homosexuals rose 147% YOY in the three months following the EU referendum.
Europeans' deeper commitment to personal privacy sometimes prevents or delays sharing of information such as travel data — that is taken for granted in the United States.
It's now taken for granted that when you write a phrase in alternating lowercase/uppercase type, you're referencing this meme and mocking an idea/thing/person.
I now understand why they did what they did and feel that the opportunities the younger generation have been given should not be taken for granted.
This loyalty leaves many African-Americans feeling taken for granted, as though Democrats have not so much courted their votes as assumed they will show up.
Domestic violence is taken for granted – women think that if their husband doesn't beat them he doesn't love them; that it's a positive form of discipline.
A modicum of cohesion, order and civility became—Mr Kausikan again—central to a grouping in which none of those qualities could be taken for granted.
Yet it can be taken for granted that a clutch of parties supported by the government in Beijing will continue to dominate Hong Kong's political system.
Stepping way back, for the last 18 years in this job I've felt like philanthropy and the nonprofit sector it supports often get taken for granted.
"If there is a political willingness in Britain, we should be ready," a senior EU official said, while warning that nothing was being taken for granted.
In any case, California, a state taken for granted in recent years, may be decisive in deciding whether the Democrats get another chance at a majority.
But this has been the year of the underdog, with Leicester City's championship in the Premier League reminding everyone that nothing can be taken for granted.
" Though such bills are often taken for granted, they work in conjunction with other factors, like poor housing, to cause "adverse environmental, health and social consequences.
When it comes to inherited windfalls, it "should not be taken for granted by any advisor that they'll be able to keep that money," she added.
With annual reports, official procedures, and physical office space, the existence of a division becomes taken for granted—rarely evaluated in terms of its intended purpose.
Viertel combines a scholarly approach with a light touch that enables us to see anew familiar songs and musical theater moments we'd long taken for granted.
Basketball fans/viewers/students have been obnoxiously spoiled by the Splash Brothers' bounty in recent years, but McCollum and Lillard should not be taken for granted.
While the nonprofit sector is often taken for granted, it provides much of what is most valuable in social service, arts and culture, recreation and education.
Generous parental leave, free child care, schooling and medical care are taken for granted in Sweden; in the United States, they are still up for debate.
Johal was outspoken, arrogant, and anti-authoritarian; it was taken for granted that this trash-talking, track-suited gangster would be the star of the show.
And then, I'll have the formerly taken-for-granted privilege of being able to eat some at the same table as my friends and neighbors, too.
The coronavirus pandemic is shining a spotlight on the weaknesses of social, economic and health safety nets we've long taken for granted, including our water system.
Unlike most philosophers, for whom thinking is a sedentary activity, Latour insists on testing our taken-for-granted ideas about the world against the world itself.
For one thing, any bilateral agreement could require the assent of numerous national (and even regional) electorates across Europe — approval that cannot be taken for granted.
Alex (Michelle Heera Kim) is the taken-for-granted goody-goody daughter of Millie (Vanessa Kai) and Richard (David Shih), immigrants still trying for a son.
It means that otherwise pro-growth tax policies won't lead to economic growth over the long-term, if family considerations are ignored or taken for granted.
But Harden's excellence is now being taken for granted, just as was that of his teammate, Russell Westbrook, during his triple-double runs in Oklahoma City.
"Freedom and democracy cannot be taken for granted in any country at any time," Peter Van Praagh, president of the forum, said in his welcoming remarks.
It's an attitude familiar to children and scientists both: The earth may not be alien, but its wonders and strangeness should never be taken for granted.
This is another California, where conservative values are often taken for granted, and where the tide of liberal "resistance" runs as dry as its unirrigated dirt.
And in a city where no space can be taken for granted, increasingly they have to fight for the very light and air above their heads.
"A Europol agreement with Denmark cannot be taken for granted," Manfred Weber, the head of the European Parliament's biggest political group, the European People's Party, said.
A recent report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine suggests that society's reliance on this "work force" — largely taken for granted — is unsustainable.
Which is to say, California's supposedly progressive values have not always included LGBTQ rights—and not even in San Francisco can they be taken for granted.
Over time, spouses may feel taken for granted or unappreciated, especially if they shoulder all the domestic responsibilities, even though they themselves may have a job.
DUP sources said on Tuesday that May's party needed to give greater focus to discussions and added that the DUP could not be taken for granted.
It also features scholars, educators, and activists who are challenging taken-for-granted memorialization of one vision for Southern history, synonymous with the region itself for many.
But it's also about the feeling of missing someone you've taken for granted and realizing how much he or she means to you only after they're gone.
In that year, T. D. Lee and C. N. Yang questioned a different but related feature of physical law, which until then had been taken for granted.
" Describing the "great awakening" across the country, Obama explained that people who "were taken for granted," including women and minorities, have made "certain strides and certain progress.
In this world, it makes sense to draw on all four quadrants — to use the portfolio approach taken for granted in so many other areas of policy.
A light and lively guide to sights so easily taken for granted, "The Secret Lives of Colour" offers plenty of fresh clues for the brain's colourful calculations.
"Nothing can be taken for granted," Macron warned, voicing frustration with a lack of clarity from London nearly three years after Britons voted to leave the bloc.
The basic security feature all of us depend on daily to protect our online payment transactions, message content and other personal data is increasingly taken for granted.
Politically, very much so: it would be one sign among many (in trade, security and elsewhere) that global co-operation can no longer be taken for granted.
Mercedes boss Toto Wolff said his team had been marginal on cooling and nothing was taken for granted, even if there would be no let up either.
With a self-proclaimed love for architecture and fascination with space, he documents places taken for granted and uses those physical details as fodder for character development.
And while the design might be clunky, it certainly doesn't look or feel cheap — although that should really be taken for granted on a nearly $1,000 headset.
It is "fashionably dismissed" and "taken for granted", sniffed Iain Duncan Smith a few years ago when he was Britain's secretary of state for work and pensions.
The post-apocalypse is a backdrop so often taken for granted in sci-fi entertainment that to see something treat such a premise this starkly is startling.
"You made this movie what it is and your love and support for this character and for myself are not to be taken for granted," she continued.
The idea that it is bad to photoshop women to look like sexy aliens on the cover of magazines is pretty much taken for granted these days.
Powerful Washington lobbyists for large polluters are betting that being taken for granted means the Clean Water Act can be taken away, and no one will notice.
Still, the new polls have affirmed that, for all the controversies he has generated, ousting Trump at the ballot box can't be taken for granted by Democrats.
From her perspective, having this kind of open discourse is progress as it means we're questioning things that ten years ago, we might have taken for granted.
"It's a choice which results in losing certain advantages which could be taken for granted," said Le Foll, who is also the spokesman for France's Socialist government.
The belief that you should be able to effortlessly handle work, family and societal demands is a cultural norm and expectation that is often taken for granted.
For too long, we have taken for granted the safety and security of roads, bridges tunnels that deliver the resources we need to live, work and play.
Last week, I had the very rare, special, and definitely not-taken-for-granted opportunity to interview Kourtney at the lush Baccarat Hotel in New York City.
Too easily taken for granted, its accomplishment is its ability to gaze steadily with warmth but minimal sentimentality at the world through unjaded 14-year-old eyes.
Nuevo Laredo, too, has grown violent in the drug war, making the kinds of trips that used to be taken for granted less frequent and more tense.
Meanwhile, Luz is isolated by the others in the camp, desperate for the communal acceptance that Chester himself has largely taken for granted, if not altogether rejected.
The pattern is so widely taken for granted that one local newspaper printed the headline "Murder at a Good Address" after a homicide on tony Michigan Avenue.
Where some of System Shock 2's spiritual sequels (primarily Prey) present this as an optional moral choice, it's taken for granted that you'll follow her advice.
When Mr. Franceschini arrived in New York, he began to notice the trivial things he had once taken for granted, like when he had a cool drink.
It came, rather, from the commitment with which Darboven defended the values that matter in culture: values of openness and reflection, values too often taken for granted.
While toilets and indoor plumbing are taken for granted in developed countries, in the developing world — India, parts of Africa or Southeast Asia — it's not a given.
But I finished the show confident that the cast had complicated what is so often taken for granted by heterosexuals: the clear parameters of winning and losing.
Nothing can be taken for granted, and this great achievement is now under assault by Russia, but what we did in my time is no less honorable.
They could not bear the thought of the family becoming isolated, the parents marginalized, the children missing out on activities their own children had taken for granted.
So I look forward to that part of my life that I had always taken for granted growing up and then had to let go of in prison.
It is often taken for granted that students know how to learn, when in fact, it is a skill (art, craft?) that must be practiced and honed continually.
"As long as investment growth remains sluggish, another 5 percent GDP growth this year is never to be taken for granted," DBS economists said in a recent note.
My vote is taken for granted, yet the candidates will glad-hand each and every Iowan who wants to be pandered to ("unless I've shaken the candidate's hand …").
Teachers play a crucial role in our society, but unfortunately, they're often taken for granted (hence the recent strikes in states like Oklahoma, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Arizona).
I watched her cook everything from scratch — gimbap, tteokbokki, soondubu — meals I'd taken for granted and never bothered to learn how to make when I had the chance.
Opposite-sex guards can watch you dress and piss and make offensive remarks, and it's taken for granted that sexual assault by staff is covered up or ignored.
"I'm writing Superman in a world where for the first time the ideas of truth, justice and the American way are not being taken for granted," Bendis said.
"Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble," Nora Ephron These are perfect specimens of creative nonfiction — Nora pioneered a kind of modern, personal journalism that is now taken for granted.
However, the president's reluctance or inability to absorb even single-page briefing papers, combined with his impulsive and narcissistic personality, mean that nothing can be taken for granted.
What's interesting is that he was living and working in an era where that was possible, and how it was taken for granted that men could do that.
Sooin Lee from KitKit School : Having a child with special needs made me realize that many children don't have early childhood skills that are often taken for granted.
Fans shouldn't be surprised that the two tied the knot so quickly after their December engagement — Klum has often spoken about how happiness shouldn't be taken for granted.
I had taken for granted the ability to choose what was reflected back (the most exciting choice I could make now was between gray sweats and black sweats).
But Africans also like the legendary durability of the 'brick' and its weeks-long battery - important considerations in countries where insurance and electricity cannot be taken for granted.
Barnier also renewed his warning that a status quo for business for a couple of years after Brexit could not yet be taken for granted, given outstanding differences.
The upside of this long peace has been substantial, but the benefits of trade now appear to be taken for granted and the costs of its interruption unappreciated.
It is simply taken for granted that if a job exists, it serves a useful purpose, and that it's better that someone is doing it than doing nothing.
Trtl Pillow, $29.99, available at AmazonBusiness travel means putting your body through its paces and realizing quality sleep is a precious commodity that shouldn't be taken for granted.
"The old days of assuming Australia can be taken for granted are no longer there and I think there will be a cost of (this decision)," he said.
Next to the mildness of the other greens, the leaves were bracing, mineral and a little edgy, an ingredient to be used with care, not taken for granted.
Spiritualized are one of those wholly unique bands that exist in a world so of their own making that they're often in danger of being taken for granted.
In many parts of the developed world—including much of Canada, which has 7 percent of the world's freshwater supply—access to clean water is taken for granted.
The race between George W. Bush and Al Gore, ultimately decided by the Supreme Court, exposed the fragility of a system that Americans had previously taken for granted.
The culture of intellectual Darwinism undermines the goal of equity in an era when so many students arrive without the cultural or financial resources once taken for granted.
In other words, the coronavirus has totally upended the lifestyle Europeans have taken for granted, even as the virus ravaged China and its neighbors thousands of miles away.
So many painters have "borrowed" elements of his style and iconography that his influence is all but taken for granted, the substance of his work lost to cliché.
Perhaps a subdued celebratory moment is appropriate given that Wi-Fi is generally taken for granted, even though it produces enormous benefits for Internet users around the globe.
Rob was trying to figure out how to be constructive, but at the same time, he didn't want to be taken for granted in terms of his vote.
I was a principal at an independent Quaker school years ago, where a brilliant but quiet sophomore was an admired — if taken for granted — member of our community.
As its title suggests, "When I Get Home" contemplates returning home and making a refuge there, reconnecting with memories and everyday surroundings that were once taken for granted.
The prevalence of white characters in science fiction is so familiar that it's often taken for granted even by people of color such as author and playwright Sunil Patel.
"To be honest I think it is very complicated", he said, adding that the willingness of foreign players to enter the Italian market should not be taken for granted.
While there is no immediate threat to Airbus and Boeing, delegates say the feeling is taking hold in boardrooms and governments that their duopoly cannot be taken for granted.
Some brokers are also planning lay-offs, having already pared back some of the perks that staff have long taken for granted, people at five brokerages and analysts said.
But the latest supply disruption shouldn't come as a surprise, regional analysts say, citing the crisis as a timely reminder that this fragile recovery shouldn't be taken for granted.
Values like equality, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state are incredibly powerful, but they cannot be taken for granted.
That the House and Senate will shift against the president at the midterm election is taken for granted; the only question is whether the shift is modest or catastrophic.
Image: Wi-Fi MapThe list of public wi-fi spots is growing all the time, and in a few years wireless access will no doubt be taken for granted.
Rather, we took the day for granted (after already learning the lesson so many times throughout our adult lives that no day, no moment, should be taken for granted).
"I am hearing the alarm you all are sounding that the civility and human rights we have all taken for granted for so long are under attack," he wrote.
" The concept, writes Gordon, helps explain how social phenomena that appear to be absent can remain "a seething presence, acting on and often meddling with taken-for-granted realities.
The emerging confab, now in its fifth year, is intended to celebrate, market and critically examine an exponentially expanding medium whose extraordinary creative fertility is now taken for granted.
Women fought and suffered and died, and out of their suffering, out of their rage, we got something we still value, that ought not to be taken for granted.
He has also said that black voters should back him because they have been taken for granted by Democrats and have been failed by more liberal policies and leaders.
For those who stayed behind, however, the 30 years since the fall of the Wall have been a mix of impressive progress, often taken for granted, and sour disappointment.
My cousin offered to be an adoptive parent, wanting nothing more than the chance at what I had been so freely given, yet so easily taken for granted: motherhood.
Today every tweet is archived, every Facebook selfie stashed and cached, every arts/tech/culture blog mirrored, and the idea of the permanence of data is taken for granted.
"History will judge us for what we do today to help guarantee that future generations can enjoy the same liveable planet that we have so clearly taken for granted."
" He takes these circumstances as something of a dare: "Our generation had been handed the challenge of rethinking almost everything societies had, for centuries, taken for granted about journalism.
By calling and holding our attention on things that can easily be taken for granted, Porter quietly and with a mischievous smile, nudges us to reconsider everything we see.
In their January paper, "Artificial Intelligence, Automation and Work," they write: Last but not least, the development and adoption of productivity-enhancing AI technologies cannot be taken for granted.
" But with time, her resistance wears down: "Day by day, she reacted less to such things, seeing how commonplace they were in Berlin, and how much taken for granted.
Women are taken for granted and pushed to the margins all the time: "Hereditary" just takes the time and care to dramatize an especially diabolical version of that process.
It incorporated fully licensed cars—something now taken for granted—and uneven driving surfaces that made for a vastly different experience to the flat asphalt of other racing games.
The problem with these mental health days is that they could be taken for granted and used for personal gain instead of their intended use of letting students rest.
UBI Banca said on Wednesday it would name advisers to help it evaluate Intesa Sanpaolo's takeover offer along with possible alternatives and said nothing could be taken for granted.
UBI Banca said on Wednesday it would name advisers to help it evaluate Intesa Sanpaolo's takeover offer along with possible alternatives and said nothing could be taken for granted.
The majority of blacks in America have maintained an unwavering loyalty to the Democratic Party for generations, but, according to a recent poll over half feel taken for granted.
"It is not 100% taken for granted that there will be a disorderly exit," De Guindos said at an event in Madrid some six weeks ahead of the Oct.
And in the loose collection of anti-feminist blogs known as the "manosphere," basic ideas around gender equality that have long been taken for granted are now being relitigated.
A focus on efficiency is unobjectionable in a world in which political and institutional stability can be taken for granted, much less so in a world in which it cannot.
Until fairly recently, for most of Western European and, to a lesser extent, American history, the idea that religion is of course public (and political) has been taken for granted.
The need for bipartisanship or interest group buy-in — or both — was just taken for granted by everyone, even the House Progressive Caucus types who pushed the public option hardest.
This is not just white entitlement, which was taken for granted for 200 years, but male breadwinner family entitlement, which was a very recent acquisition for the white working class.
Madison doesn't think so, saying Sam's possibly-haunting reaction to feeling "taken for granted" in the most relatable way results in the Fox women getting exactly what they all needed.
The move had been taken for granted since August, when a consortium led by Stroll's billionaire father Lawrence took control of the British-based team after they went into administration.
Ellison's position on the far left end of the political spectrum is a fact that Republicans in his home state, used to losing deep-blue Minneapolis, have taken for granted.
"It has been taken for granted that plants like Bratislava would just carry on and produce the next generation model," Carol Thomas, an auto analyst at LMC Automotive, told Reuters.
Nonetheless, others cautioned that Britain had yet to make a fully committed offer and that essential agreement from the other 27 member states could not yet be taken for granted.
The Los Angeles first baseman has driven in three of his squad's five runs in the series and manager Dave Roberts said the veteran's production is sometimes taken for granted.
These figures reflected the sense of abandonment many residents felt when Detroit ceased to be able to deliver a quality of life that is taken for granted in other cities.
The more common a story structure becomes, however, the more it enters the invisible machinery of our instincts—and the more the truth, the actual truth, is taken for granted.
Still, it was really scary to uproot my whole family, to put my kids through losing everything that they had taken for granted, and enter the culture shock of emigration.
DiCaprio added that "history will judge us" for what the world does today for its future generations to give them "the same liveable planet" that has been taken for granted.
My attention turned then to the touchstones and places that give Puerto Rico its beauty and culture and that I now realize I have taken for granted all my life.
The more that stable prices are taken for granted, the less that monetary policy makers can expect to be insulated from political attacks when they venture into politically sensitive debates.
So much of the #MeToo movement is about re-examining behaviors too long taken for granted or never properly evaluated as the violations of trust and consent that they are.
Whereas Smith, Ricardo, and Mill had taken for granted that land was one of the three factors of production with labor and capital, Solow assumed that land did not matter.
LONDON — For decades, voters in Copeland, in the northwest of England, have elected parliamentary candidates from Britain's opposition Labour Party so regularly that their support was almost taken for granted.
The novel's text is both sacred to this film and also layered with meaning, and Gerwig's screenplay draws out and reimagines what has been taken for granted in the past.
In many other nations — in China, in Russia, in Germany, say — it is taken for granted that if you know someone's age, you also know what he or she survived.
"It has been taken for granted that plants like Bratislava would just carry on and produce the next generation model," Carol Thomas, an auto analyst at LMC Automotive, told Reuters.
Republicans have been complaining about "burdensome" and "job-killing" regulations for so long that their opposition to any particular health, safety, or environmental regulation is now just taken for granted.
ROME (Reuters) - Italian Economy Minister Pier Carlo Padoan said on Wednesday that it should not be taken for granted that Germany's Jens Weidmann will be the next European Central Bank governor.
It was a revelatory incident, one that showed how the insurgent left flank of the Democratic Party is raising questions about premises that the Washington establishment has long taken for granted.
What narrative urgency there was came from the characters (and the audience) realizing they're trapped in a system, and how vital it is to question the things you've taken for granted.
That has offered activists a powerful reminder that, despite the progress of the past few years, nothing should be taken for granted — it only takes one bad election to threaten it.
Mara Kuge, president and founder of Superior Music Publishing, said that Apple Corps' strategies are essential to the group's ongoing viability, which is something that should not be taken for granted.
The fact that we can post a video of the president motorboating Rudy Giuliani's tits or call him a snack food without fear of retribution should not be taken for granted.
I began my first of many three-hour-long dialysis treatments, where they siphoned off the liquid, doing the work of my kidneys that I had so long taken for granted.
"The story from the past few days is how reliant the US and other countries are on our partners, and that they should not be taken for granted," Hunter Friend said.
Both also agreed that reliable internet connectivity needed to be guaranteed as well, or even the most motivated kids would miss out on opportunities taken for granted in better-wired areas.
Having a challenger forced her to raise her game for black and Latino voters, who likely otherwise would have been taken for granted as they usually are by the Democratic establishment.
These days, it's pretty much taken for granted that if you're running as a Republican and want to win, you probably need to oppose abortion and take other socially conservative positions.
"I look forward to that part of my life that I had always taken for granted growing up and then had to let go of in prison," she said to PEOPLE.
Whether we will admit it or not, the question of an artist's freedom is taken for granted by some, while others have to earn it, whether they want to or not.
These are everyday activities taken for granted by most of us, but for the 15m people the World Health Organization estimates are living with disabilities, they may be difficult or impossible.
I had always loved school but now, having missed several years, I saw it through new eyes -- something not to be treated lightly, and certainly not to be taken for granted.
"The appeal and superiority of constitutional democracy cannot be taken for granted," I was told by Professor David Law of Washington University in St. Louis and The University of Hong Kong.
He had done time before, and he understood that, when he went to jail, he would lose many of the rights that are taken for granted by people on the outside.
While the independence of central banks is often taken for granted in advanced economies, it is a relatively novel concept and one that must remain a guiding principle for monetary policy.
If violent extremists can be relied upon for one thing, it is their ability to make hyper-visible the latent prejudices and assumptions taken for granted by the "moderate" general public.
With Benfica similarly formidable on their day, nothing can be taken for granted in Group B. It's the "group of death" for middling sides that nobody else wants to play, basically.
BITCH A housewife who's been taken for granted (Marianna Palka, the movie's writer and director) takes up residence in her house's basement and begins behaving like a most un-housebroken dog.
They figured their work on the issues they were concerned about in the city was being taken for granted by the elected officials, who gave them lip service but no action.
This Op-Ed argues that throughout history we've taken for granted "the implicit brutality of male sexuality," and that now, more than ever, the nature of masculinity must be broadly discussed.
"Good health is nothing to be taken for granted, and this was driven home to us this weekend when the news of John Lewis's sad diagnosis descended upon us," Pelosi wrote.
Amazon need not bother to tell a story; in fact, its goal is to reduce the retail story to a single button, an instant, an unprecedentedly complex process taken for granted.
"For too long, I think, candidates have taken for granted constituencies that have been the backbone of the Democratic Party," Ms. Harris said a short while later, punctuating a forceful night.
The road to a consonant cluster that's now taken for granted — and that's grown longer, with a Q or more added, depending on who's doing the clustering — was a rocky one.
The larger issue is that for too long, I think, candidates have taken for granted the constituencies that have been the backbone of the Democratic Party and have overlooked those constituencies.
It is possible, in a human lifetime, to see sea levels rise and ice shelves break away, and, when they do, nothing about what happens next can be taken for granted.
For example, it was taken for granted that suspected pirates captured at sea, whether U.S. citizens or not, were entitled to the "due process of law" guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment.
Speaker, people of color for too long have been ignored by one party and taken for granted by the other, too often this happens, not always but too often it happens.
Chiqui and Chela belong to Paraguay's privileged class, and the movie is about what happens when the privileges and comforts that Chela in particular has taken for granted begin to crumble.
By now, it's taken for granted that Donald Trump, the candidate of anti-immigrant bombast, is a favorite to win or place second in Iowa's first-in-the-nation primary contest.
This is certainly a slightly more optimistic view of America than Haley offered — the willingness of Americans to respect all religions is taken for granted, rather than needing to be defended.
It used to be taken for granted that raising the minimum wage would decrease the number of low-wage jobs, and that teenagers would have a harder time finding part-time work.
In between thoughts I stared at all the happy people walking on the sidewalk, riding in their cars, and others going about in their daily lives, a freedom I'd taken for granted.
That the theft was captured on video — from start to finish, no less — is a helpful reminder that new technologies sometimes have a downside, and true security can't be taken for granted.
As has been the case with immigration, the bipartisan coalition of policymakers had taken for granted that because their policies generally produce prosperity that they were not obliged to sell them anymore.
Maybe not always in the smartest way (hey, Independence Day President Whitmore, did you really need to nuke Houston?), but it's taken for granted that we will at least try to #resist.
Last night Black-ish failed to do what it does best, which is make us think differently, or at least critically, about things that might normally go unnoticed or taken for granted.
"This is about will the U.S. Supreme Court decide that the fundamental freedoms and liberties that Americans have taken for granted for 200 years are still valid," said Phillips' lawyer, Kristen Waggoner.
Although it's taken for granted now, this was one of the world's first digital synthesisers – and for better or worse, artists from Aphex Twin to Diplo probably wouldn't exist now without it.
"Russia's commitment to a ceasefire should not be taken for granted by the other ceasefire agreement signatories," said Alex Kokcharov, a senior Russia analyst at IHS Country Risk, a global consultancy firm.
This leads to a situation where, in developed countries, clean water, computers and complex transportation and infrastructure systems are taken for granted — yet the people who designed and created them are absent.
You might think it impossible to underrate any aspect of Apple's iPhone business, but the expertise and skill of the company's chip designers is regularly taken for granted, whereas it shouldn't be.
Those who inhabit this world live in a kind of bubble sometimes called "epistemic closure," where they won't believe many things taken for granted by people who get news from other sources.
As Washington looks at the problems that Puerto Rico has faced, policymakers will hopefully take note that the safety and security of a nation's electric grid should never be taken for granted.
They're the kind of liberal, educated family in which unconventionality is prized, Christmas and Hanukkah are celebrated jointly, dinner-table talk waxes rowdy and smart and professional accomplishment is taken for granted.
Along the way, he lost 40 pounds of muscle, making it more difficult for nurses to draw his blood — "the one thing I'd always taken for granted as being easy," he said.
Some stories are so big and encompassing, they are like the air: hard to see, taken for granted and somehow all at once too obvious and too hard to grasp and prove.
An idea that was once marginal enough to require laborious defense gradually became so self-evident that it was hardly worth explaining; like the crumpled letter, its presence was taken for granted.
It had long been taken for granted, for example, that scientific facts and entities, like cells and quarks and prions, existed "out there" in the world before they were discovered by scientists.
Previous pandemics, including of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS, in 2002 and 2003 and of Ebola in West Africa in 2014, show that these three things cannot be taken for granted.
She gives each of her many characters their due, rendering them vivid and also memorable — an effect not to be taken for granted in a serious history book covering an intricate subject.
Rand had taken for granted there would be "pinks" in America, but she hadn't known they would matter, certainly not in New York City, one of the literary capitals of the world.
Each was self-contained, without much overlap or imposed cohesion, but all together, they were a reminder that Coleman long ago embodied the kind of interdisciplinary entrepreneurship that's taken for granted today.
These ideas — the minimalist core of liberalism — are so foundational to political life in advanced democracies that they're simply taken for granted, with debates about public policy taking place inside liberalism's parameters.
That means assertions they'd made early on ended up effectively being taken for granted: Nobody was revisiting early assumptions to see whether they still held up in the face of new data.
Starbucks brands itself as a home away from home, a venue to be taken for granted: It's the place that's always nearby, where you can always spend under $10 and sit down.
He came up in Oklahoma conservative politics, where alliance with fossil fuel industries and hostility toward federal regulators are taken for granted and the only serious political threat is from the right.
And moments of stumbling over definitions in these discussions are how you discover what is structurally taken for granted, what can change, what works, and what can be used for alternative means.
But in an economy that has scarcely grown since the birth of the euro, is likely to expand by just 0.8% this year and faces political limbo, nothing can be taken for granted.
Like many young adult sci-fi stories, though, Paradise Hills offers a space where young women's competence and autonomy is taken for granted — even if the antagonists are determined to take it away.
You couldn't write a review of Jurassic Park in 1993 without mentioning how lifelike the dinosaurs were, but by the time Jurassic World came out in 2015 these things were taken for granted.
"And as the stakes of this social change become clearer to everyone, expect online dating to become more politically contentious even as it becomes a more taken-for-granted part of social life."
With rising wages and literacy comes a desire for self-improvement, and a demand for basic necessities taken for granted in other parts of the world, such as education, communication and medical care.
A new report from The Climate Institute in Australia sounds the alarm that coffee as we know it—cheap, ubiquitous, and largely taken for granted—could become a precious commodity in the future.
The betterment which a Trump Administration will bring to the lives of all Americans left behind and taken-for-granted by the politicians of both parties can be just as strong and permanent.
He had initially planned to vote Conservative but said he was put off by May's Brexit plans, what he saw as the party's arrogance and a feeling he was being taken for granted.
"Leadership by America is not taken for granted anymore, and I'm afraid that's been speeded up by what's happening in Washington and the country in the last four or five years," Volcker said.
They recognize and own their responsibility to being a part of this conversation, and I think they see that these rights that we've taken for granted are not ones that are forever assured.
During an August 2016 campaign stop, Trump argued that African-Americans have been struggling and taken for granted by the Democratic Party, and should consider voting for him in the November general election.
He said he thought about his three daughters, "all confident and accomplished young women," and has looked forward to a day when the question of gender parity would just be taken for granted.
But these discussions have taken for granted that the piece was sui generis and have obscured Dvorak's original purpose: to acknowledge contributions black musicians had already been making to the American cultural landscape.
And though most fighting game communities can be rather welcoming to new players, the individual games are often horrible at explaining basic mechanics that are taken for granted in the fighting game space.
The paper said he had been advised not to present for now a formal request to banking regulators to take his stake above 2300% since the upshot could not be taken for granted.
Still, with this court decision, it will have to not only learn to live with its pain and anguish, but also work hard to reclaim the impunity it has always taken for granted.
GAZA (Reuters) - Amid the poverty and deprivation of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian women struggle to find a taste of normality that is taken for granted in much of the rest of the world.
China's rise in the global arena is often taken for granted as inevitable, but this is another indicator that it cannot continue to rely on its industrial might in order to continue growing.
In the United States today, it is generally taken for granted today that penises which cannot become stiff enough to penetrate others are failures of health, belonging to men who qualify for medical treatment.
That such high tech shoes, with a likely (though still TBD) high price tag to match, would be desirable in a country that spends billions a year on sneakers was almost taken for granted.
Now that President Trump has taken the first steps toward fulfilling his promise of deporting millions of immigrants, such data-sharing arrangements, which have long been taken for granted, are coming under heightened scrutiny.
It's a society where it's taken for granted and glossed over, not just socially but structurally, that everyone has a cushion of financial support, when the reality is that most of us do not.
In addition to his shout-out to Sanders supporters, Trump also repeatedly expressed sympathetic concern in both speeches for gays -- a constituency Democrats have taken for granted and that elite Republicans have intentionally alienated.
It's a space base, but it also serves China's more earth-bound ambitions, as well, expanding its reach into a region that other world powers — including the United States — have long taken for granted.
It is now widely taken for granted that this golden age will go on, that this ecosystem of startups and giants, and startups becoming giants, and giants acquiring startups, has become an unstoppable flywheel.
One thing that people take for granted is this notion of freedom of assembly, which I have never taken for granted because I come from a country where freedom of assembly is not granted.
Adut, a Sudanese child soldier who became a refugee lawyer, spoke of his journey to Australia, how its freedoms shouldn't be taken for granted, and expressed his gratitude for the country that accepted him.
In many parts of the world, like North America, using Wikipedia is taken for granted; hell, there are even Twitter accounts to track government employees editing the internet's free encyclopedia while on the clock.
It is taken for granted today that the Allied forces attempted to wage a just war in Europe against the Nazis, not a brutal campaign of blind vengeance, of mass rape and mass executions.
Mr. Kebe notes that he hand-cuts potatoes for French fries every morning, a detail that may be taken for granted elsewhere but is notable at a shop of this size and humble mission.
Quite right too, we might say, nor is the identification of the two in Borbely's work to be taken for granted — yet they both cannot help informing each other in a peculiarly intense way.
Because of that lower level of engagement, and because they vote predictably blue, voters in most American cities are taken for granted by Democrats, ignored by Republicans, and unfortunately, rarely courted in national elections.
Like so many places in New York that are taken for granted, that people go to once or twice and then forget about, the room had the potential to be inspiring, but was not.
It's taken for granted that social mobility only happens after you make it to Harvard; what happens for the vast majority of the population for whom that isn't in the cards is easily forgotten.
In the Lille model, students are placed in modules where they teach one another, exchange ideas, critique one another's arguments, and question concepts that are often taken for granted in more traditional classroom settings.
But a spate of recent flubs have marred the efforts of both candidates, with some voters saying the outreach reads as pandering, and only reminds them of how their votes are taken for granted.
There are also heroes in the story, like the American-born Wong Kim Ark, whose victory in the Supreme Court in 1898 established the birthright to citizenship that we've taken for granted until recently.
Johnson said the CBC and black voters should use their leverage as a voting bloc to work with Trump instead of always toeing the Democratic line and being taken for granted by party leaders.
Only when it came to defeating Islamic State was the United States truly committed militarily, and events of last week suggest that under Donald Trump even that can no longer be taken for granted.
France's gilded political culture of immunity and privilege — free train and plane tickets, first-class travel, chauffeurs, all in a setting of marble and tapestries — can no longer be taken for granted, analysts warn.
To paraphrase Roosevelt, we will be lifting the great burden off the shoulders of that continent, and enabling all its citizens to share the opportunities which we have taken for granted for so long.
And I knew that our success would depend not on PACs or corporations but upon the grassroots volunteers and supporters from everywhere, especially from those places that had been overlooked or taken for granted.
Many benefits that full time employees have taken for granted — medical, retirement, vacation, workers comp and other benefits - are now no longer coupled with a single employer who employs us for years or decades.
Fortunately, Congress could fix this issue by making explicit that which was (until very recently) taken for granted — that a loan which is valid when it's made remains valid, even if it is sold.
"The U.S.-Turkey alliance can no longer be taken for granted," Ozgur Unluhisarcikli of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, which promotes transatlantic cooperation, wrote in a report published ahead of Tillerson's trip.
Unable to afford the fertilizers and pesticides that 19803th-century agriculture had taken for granted, the country faced extreme weather events and a limit to the land and water it could use to grow food.
The ambitious series introduced a number of elements now taken for granted as a part of Marvel lore – including the idea of the multiverse, in which alternate versions of Marvel characters exist in different universes.
Russia and China, sometimes acting in concert, are challenging the mastery of the world's oceans which the American navy, with its ten aircraft-carriers, has taken for granted since the end of the cold war.
Merkel evoked the experience of Germany's post-war division to stress that democracy and freedom cannot be taken for granted, saying Europe should work with the United States and other allies to defend those values.
Washington (CNN)Donald Trump developed a new campaign pitch this week, arguing that African-Americans have been struggling and taken for granted by the Democratic Party and thus should consider a different direction this November.
Complicating his task, classmates raise qualms about Mrs Clinton's character—meaning her honesty—more often than her policies, while her status as the first woman nominee of a major party is "absolutely taken for granted".
Three years ago, he released "Watermark," which explores our relationship with water, reminding us of its importance, to us and to the whole fauna and flora, and that it should not be taken for granted.
Citizens around the country will see, as I've have seen, the heart and compassion Mr. Trump has for all Americans, which includes minority communities whose votes have been taken for granted for far too long.
Harris said that for too long, Democrats have taken for granted black women in particular -- whose votes carried Democrat Doug Jones to victory over Roy Moore in Alabama's December 2017 special election for the Senate.
Like his predecessor Yasser Arafat, as well as the other current senior leaders of the PA, they have long taken for granted the financial assistance from the United States, as well as the European Union.
He complained about being sidelined and taken for granted, of only being used to win Congressional votes and to tackle crises, and about not being invited to a meeting with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden.
In the post-Watergate era, most Americans have taken for granted that a president would not fire an F.B.I. director investigating him, or replace an attorney general for insufficient loyalty to the president's personal interests.
The Democratic fixation on upscale white suburbs also distorts policies and diverts resources that could generate higher turnout among nonwhite voting blocs that are crucial to the party's fortunes and too often taken for granted.
One of the biggest hit movies in recent years in Kolkata is a family drama called "Belaseshe" ("At the End of the Day"), about lonely elders, busy children and relationships that are taken for granted.
I'm thankful daily for the gift of a body that does most of what I want it to do, recognizing this as a privilege denied to so many and one taken for granted by most.
"It's not at all a blue state to be taken for granted; things can easily be reversed," Ken Salazar, a former secretary of the interior in the Obama administration and a Colorado native, told me.
I argue that transracial is a productively disruptive concept because it can unsettle the taken-for-granted assumptions about the stability and naturalness of racial categories on which the reproduction of the racial order depends.
It's a long journey but if you focus on the mini milestones along the way you will find beauty in the struggle of doing simple things that prior to this injury were taken for granted.
In yet another performance of premature wisdom, Isra ends her Medium essay with a realization: that her proximity to the most polarizing woman in Congress is, in fact, a privilege that she's taken for granted.
That shift includes a move by people of all genders to list pronouns in their social media bios and email signatures, to point out that pronouns aren't always obvious and shouldn't be taken for granted.
"Conventional construction methods have many baked-in drawbacks and problems that we've taken for granted for so long that we forgot how to imagine any alternative," Jason Ballard, co-founder of ICON, said in a statement.
But while it may be taken for granted that looking at cute animals improves mood, researchers have wondered whether looking at cats when we're supposed to be doing something else makes us feel guilty for procrastinating.
Amenities that were once taken for granted, such as free meals and seatback entertainment, have vanished on many flights, and new checked-baggage charges have caused passengers to lug more and bigger bags into the cabin.
In his first 100 days, President Trump has worked to reinvigorate the partnerships with Britain, Israel, Japan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and a host of other countries that were frankly taken for granted during the Obama years.
But according to researchers at the University of Glasgow, this taken-for-granted connection between circadian rhythms and mental health has been backed mostly by studies that used unreliable research methods and too small sample sizes.
That's actually longer than some shows of recent years, including the 2011 show with James Franco and Anne Hathaway, but given the program's propensity for pushing four hours, it's not something to be taken for granted.
We can be certain that a tweet unraveling all that he faked during the speech will come as soon as he feels disrespected, insulted and otherwise taken for granted by the post-commentary and press coverage.
"There's no guarantee they meet standards that are taken for granted in the U.S." Safety experts say no studies or data track safety standards or fleet purchasing policies for rental car companies from country to country.
These are ultimately the same views that motivated them and millions of people to vote for Mitt Romney, and when that election day arrived, it was taken for granted they would vote for the Republican nominee.
It's such a pervasive issue that its chilling effects are sometimes taken for granted by those they affect, according to Joshua Franco, a senior research advisor and the deputy director of Amnesty Tech at Amnesty International.
But Trump's retreat from his promise to be an ally is yet another standing reminder for LGBTQ communities about how fragile many of their newly attained rights are — and that nothing can be taken for granted.
I understand intuitively that for these artists freedom would not be, could not be taken for granted — it would be prodded and poked, dragged and stretched to find out how free being free actually might be.
It builds on technologies whose development has been accelerating for decades and that only now are set to undermine the key features of what we had previously taken for granted as the natural order of things.
Not all of them were complete or correct as written — certain ingredients and methods simply went unmentioned, taken for granted, part of the heritage of life in the Philippines, where those details would've been communal knowledge.
But what strikes me most about them is that by blurring the line between cure and comfort — and between hope and hopelessness — they have disrupted the fragile equilibrium that we doctors have long taken for granted.
Some Republicans grumble, but almost all follow Trump's lead: Unlike Trump, Republicans largely favored NAFTA and several GOP senators said they felt taken for granted as the White House bent over backwards to secure Democratic votes.
Neither source clarified what legal issues the ECB is facing to withdraw Pilatus Bank's license, a move that many observers had taken for granted after the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) recommended the withdrawal in June.
That Mr. Navalny has little to no chance of winning, and that he is ineligible to compete because of a February conviction on what were widely viewed as politically motivated fraud charges, is taken for granted.
America's armed forces have a variety of strategies to tackle that decline but the truth is that coming wars will look very different from the sort of military deployments taken for granted in the recent past.
With every episode, you'll journey into the mind of an artist and discover the true art of design and the impact it plays on all aspects of life, including some you might have taken for granted.
Why it matters, via Axios' Amy Harder: Following a much larger scandal at Volkswagen in 2015 that resulted in billions in fines for the German automaker, it's a reminder that vehicles' efficiency shouldn't be taken for granted.
"It was really important for us to show all the ways that this right that women have taken for granted for so long has been chipped away at and the consequences of that long opposition," says Fisher.
Terminal Directive feels like an experiment in translating to a card game things that are often taken for granted in video games, things like branching storylines and important, game changing "choices" like those found in Mass Effect.
"For far too long, Black voters in this country have been marginalized, misrepresented, and taken for granted in electoral politics," Sabeel Rahman, the president of Demos, another organization that partnered in the project, said in a statement.
The Senate map still heavily favors the GOP in 2018, but Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has been privately warning his colleagues and donors that the GOP's 52-48 majority should not been taken for granted, sources say.
Earlier, Sky news cited unnamed sources from the DUP saying the talks were not going as expected, urging May's government to give "greater focus" to the negotiations and adding that the DUP "can't be taken for granted".
"While it seems probable that Trump will extend that deadline to avoid derailing the substantive negotiations now in progress, this cannot be taken for granted," said Christopher Granville, managing director of global political research at TS Lombard.
By supporting academic freedom as a universal commitment, U.S. leaders can make a small contribution toward a more democratic discourse in the Middle East and uphold a basic value too often taken for granted in the West.
And, in this way, it is the most important… as fundamentally important as anything could ever be, and perhaps, also because of that, it's often overlooked or taken for granted, until you don't have any, of course.
No ethnic group should ever want their vote to be taken for granted, but we're the only ethnic group people are already predicting where we are going and that is not good for us as a people.
The lesson of this unnerving year is that less can be taken for granted than we thought — the American people are not immune to demagogues, and the American political system is too weakened to reliably stop them.
The STATES Act will finally exempt marijuana from this classification and defer to state laws, thereby allowing state-sanctioned marijuana businesses access to federally insured banks and other important services often taken for granted by other industries.
"The changes can indeed seem astonishing," he writes in the introduction, but — as shown by mass incarceration, the militarization of police forces and the resegregation of America's schools — "a lot, in fact, is still taken for granted."
LONDON (Reuters) - Cycling teams are being "taken for granted" by world governing body the UCI and fear that planned reforms will continue to leave them short-changed, according to a representative of cycling's team organization, the AIGCP.
But while the international community applauds the approaching end of 21980 years of civil war, reactions to the meeting in Colombia have underlined that support for the peace talks at home should not be taken for granted.
But while the international community applauds the approaching end of 50 years of civil war, reactions to the meeting in Colombia have underlined that support for the peace talks at home should not be taken for granted.
The lore of Cincinnatus and Washington has stood the test of time because each generation must be reminded that our democracy cannot be taken for granted, from the casual observer to engaged voters to our elected leaders.
It's not a win for democratic norms; it's a win that shows just how much work is going to be needed to defend those norms, once they're no longer taken for granted and sufficient to defend themselves.
Reported hate crimes rose for the third consecutive year in 2017, according to the F.B.I. "It was taken for granted in the South that whites could use force against any African-Americans who became overbearing," he said.
While the Seagram has been revolutionary in many respects, impacting New York's attitude toward civic spaces, and even the city's zoning laws, it is increasingly taken for granted — its significance further obscured by parasitical Seagrams copycats nearby.
Steve Phillips, the founder of Democracy in Color, an advocacy group focused on race and politics, said Mr. Sanders had room to grow with voters of color, whose votes are habitually taken for granted by Democratic candidates.
Personal care products – from soap and toothpaste to cosmetics and sunscreens – are essential to our everyday lives—so commonplace that their value is taken for granted as are the many contributions of the industry that manufactures them.
It may not be his voice singing, but in those lyrics I hear my father begging not to be spurned or taken for granted, for me to recognize what's before me and cherish it while I can.
So it is with fertility control—what was miraculous barely more than 50 years ago, is essentially taken for granted now (though likely less so after a Trump-Pence administration makes them expensive and hard to get).
But Trump has done such a bad job with the kind of rhetoric that was taken for granted for past presidents that it's now a major news event when he does what we used to consider normal.
But the inventiveness and resourcefulness of his most pointed work, his willingness to rethink something as simple yet taken-for-granted as press release convention, suggests that his pessimism could be tempered with a touch more optimism.
The result is that black voters feel like their consistent support for Democrats is being taken for granted, creating a cycle in which black voters turn out for elections but fail to see much return on their investment.
"However, other people's time and money are not to be taken for granted, so I just want to be clear: I endorse the movie, many critics don't," the mom to 2-year-old son Jonathan continued on Instagram.
But the fact that investors did not automatically re-allocate the funds from bond purchases to riskier euro zone issuers, suggests that portfolio rebalancing effects, one of the key purposes of bond-buying, cannot be taken for granted.
Plus, it can be easy for long-term partners to feel taken for granted, so making sure to cuddle, stroke each other's hair, and savor the moment after sex can make even the most routine sex feel special.
In a sport where an out-of-place toe or the mistiming of a release-and-catch maneuver by a fraction of a second can make the difference between success and failure, nothing can be taken for granted.
It's often taken for granted that most people can register to vote while on a routine trip to the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to receive or renew their driver's license, but before 1993 that wasn't the case.
So liberals do know—as I emphasized in my earlier piece—that basic personal rights have to be protected against political abuse, and that institutions that can do this are precious and not to be taken for granted.
"Calder's embrace of toys, play and the like was further complicated by his having grown up in an artistic household where it was taken for granted that such childish things had a more than childish value," Perl explains.
Today it remains a throwback to another era, an era when tracks were built for speed, not for slowing down or to ensure safety, an era when the life-threatening nature of the sport was taken for granted.
LIMA, Peru — President-elect Donald J. Trump, with his "America First" campaign slogan, sees an America that has for years been taken for granted by weaker nations and is too quick to intervene in intractable conflicts far away.
But that progress should never be taken for granted, especially since people with disabilities -- a population numbering more than one in every five people in the US -- still face numerous challenges in entering and participating in the workforce.
But in the years that followed general strikes would be invaluable tools in the procurement of guaranteed minimum wage, safe working conditions, the concept of "the weekend," and a variety of other now-taken-for-granted labor laws.
That right was built into the fund's mandate more than 20 years ago but cannot be taken for granted, Dr. Kanem said during an interview in her New York office, a few blocks from the United Nations headquarters.
But with the election of Mr. Trump, they were aghast at how they felt the political system, which most had taken for granted to the point of indifference, had allowed things to fly so far off the rails.
And the authorities stated what many people had always taken for granted: that the attack had to do with Mr. Rushdie's book, which infuriated Muslims around the world — a theory that the police played down a generation ago.
SETH COLTER WALLS With ongoing debate about the merits of Leonard Bernstein's "Mass," one notable aspect of the piece is often taken for granted: the lead role of the Celebrant is a demanding assignment, both vocally and dramatically.
"The Walking Dead" has diverged from the comic books' mythology enough times that adherence to the source material can't be taken for granted, but trust that Rick will be out for blood when he and Negan meet next.
The study is a careful examination of "a story everyone had taken for granted and hadn't really tested thoroughly," said Christine Janis, a professor emerita of evolutionary biology at Brown University who was not involved in the research.
I thought about the fact that the so-called transformation economy is arguably propelled by millennials, a generation — my generation — coming-of-age in precarity, without the social, political or economic stability that was once taken for granted.
Also, limits it has put on policies that may be promoted and language that may be used, even though the policies may respond to commonly felt needs and the language may be taken for granted among common people.
In addition to providing outdoor recreation opportunities, city parks today are delivering a vast range of ecological services easily taken for granted, from storm and surface water management to carbon emissions reduction, keeping cities safer, cleaner and cooler.
With the global economy already showing signs of a slowdown, Simon Baptist, chief economist at the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) suggested that patterns of growth are changing, and that growth itself can no longer be taken for granted.
"I think for a couple of decades we've taken for granted that things were going so well that we didn't take the time to communicate or educate on why it mattered to our economic platform together," Bond said.
Ms. Kim is one of her brother's most trusted aides, but in a country where top aides can have notoriously short life spans — even when they are relatives of the North's leaders — little can be taken for granted.
Since Brexit and the election of President Trump, elite politicians, executives and scholars who meet here every year have wrung their hands over the wave of shocks to a global power system whose permanence most had taken for granted.
FROM COINAGE: The Top 5 Most Expensive Movies of All Time "You made this movie what it is and your love and support for this character and for myself are not to be taken for granted," the actress continues.
More to the point, they created state-sponsored discrimination against transgender individuals who simply seek to engage in the most private of functions in a place of safety and security, a right taken for granted by most of us.
It follows five people with MCS or electromagnetic sensitivity, which makes it difficult or impossible to live around cellphones, electric appliances, artificial scents and cleaning agents, or other items that are taken for granted as part of modern society.
For young men, engagement with the arts, music and creativity is taken for granted, their tastes largely respected -- no one mocked the Eagles of Death Metal when a terrorist shot and killed 89 people at their concert in Paris.
That's why it is so important that people who live in rural areas and small towns have access to the same kind of powerful high-speed internet that is now taken for granted in most urban and suburban communities.
Some considerations of this have led into darker corners than others, but it was generally taken for granted that we would at least be there, and that the future we made would serve us in some way or another.
"I know I'm going to be OK." In Cherkewski and Dean, one of the most impactful elements of a basic income is being realized: Society is recognizing and making possible forms of work that are normally taken for granted.
Even in Europe — frequently taken for granted as a post-war democratic success story — economic stagnation and the migrant crisis are undermining faith in democratic institutions and adding to the appeal of extreme parties of the right and left.
Why not have the best sleep of your life next to the dried-out sack of daddy you've long taken for granted, whose wand no longer glows and quivers for you and for whom you no longer quietly melt?
Ms. Brainard said the weak job growth was a reminder that the strength of the recovery should not be taken for granted, and she said she did not see clear evidence the economy had rebounded from a weak winter.
But a majority population of Palestinian refugees and an economy that relies largely on handouts could still at any point be prone to political and social unrest as well, and since 2011, this potential cannot be taken for granted.
"We get the impression that the sale of the memory business opens a path to the resolution of the excess debt problem ... While nothing can be taken for granted, ... we did detect a sense of progress," the note added.
Simultaneously, incidents of overt racism, sexism and anti-immigrant animus in the national news made it seem more urgent to face those problems in the restaurant business, where they are often so deeply embedded that they're taken for granted.
Having long taken for granted that he is the greatest composer-lyricist the United States has produced, we can perhaps now notice that he is also an artist to place in the line of America's foundational 20th-century playwrights.
It was taken for granted that the same anti-government zeal that had fuelled the Reagan Revolution, of the nineteen-eighties; the 26 Republican takeover of Congress; and the 24 Tea Party insurgency would continue to drive the Party.
"It's important for Senator Sanders to share his platform on a range of issues with the heads of civil rights organizations because we are a large voting bloc and our issues should not be taken for granted," Ms. Noerdlinger said.
"Jupiter's relatively steady main aurora has a power density that is so much larger than Earth's that it has been taken for granted that it must be generated primarily by the discrete auroral process," state the authors in the new study.
It's a towering accomplishment, one that shouldn't be taken for granted given the fact that "Toy Story's" original director and Pixar's creative mastermind, John Lasseter, was forced to take a leave of absence in 2017 and eventually exit the company.
A duty to act We're at a point today where Western values of the rule of law, democracy, mutual respect, dissent, love of peace and tolerance, are so taken for granted that people no longer see them as worth fighting for.
"It's hard not to see recent market turmoil as a taste of what's to come as we enter a world in which central-bank support for asset prices can no longer be taken for granted," Alliance Bernstein economists told clients.
Utopians transported into developed countries of today would also be pleasantly surprised to discover that their rights to follow "divers kinds of religion" and to divorce if "the man and woman cannot well agree between themselves" were now taken for granted.
"I think that's because people have always taken for granted that the right will continue to exist, and we don't need to get exercised about something that's safe," Davis, who is part of the Rise Up tour, told BuzzFeed News.
We have been left with government leaders who have taken away jurisdiction over open records, voting, court actions, environmental issues, health care benefits, educational opportunities, workplace statues — many aspects of our every day living that used to be taken for granted.
Many of the crucial contests have played out in regions whose politics was once taken for granted—like congenitally left-wing Andalucia, where a right-wing coalition propped up by Vox, a far-right party, came to power in January.
For people living in the developed world, electricity is something that can perhaps be taken for granted — with the flick of a switch or the press of a button they have lighting, TV and a huge number of other modern conveniences.
And lastly, this immortal sentence fragment to go out on as we mourn the passing of Kylie Jenner's old lips: "A thousand moments that I had just taken for granted – mostly because I had assumed there would be a thousand more."
After World War II, Americans intuitively understood — because they could remember — how catastrophic a breakdown of world order could be, and they were constantly reminded by the looming Soviet threat that international stability and peace could not be taken for granted.
"Just because some of those angry white people also happen to be women doesn't mean they should have been written off or taken for granted—or that their votes wouldn't count just as much as their male counterparts' surely did."
Describing a three-week trip to Europe, Georgetown political scientist Abraham Newman says America's allies are deeply pessimistic about the state of the transatlantic relationship: 15/It also eats away at the taken-for-granted blind commitment to support US power.
In doing so, the commission elided historical context, emphasizing violent acts but not broader and more systemic forms of discrimination, and obscuring their deep-seated causes in the social order that was taken for granted and rationalized under apartheid rule.
"The success of the Alternative for Germany is a wake-up call that it can't be taken for granted that society is liberal and will remain so," Heribert Prantl, a journalist at the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, wrote in a commentary.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel and her conservatives are expected to win a fourth consecutive term in September but uncertainties such as terror attacks are clouding the picture and such expected outcomes should be no longer taken for granted, the industrialists said.
Preaching — and pandering — with a message of inclusion, the Democrats have instead become a party where incivility and bad manners are taken for granted, rudeness is routine, religion is mocked and there is absolutely no respect for a differing opinion.
Despite having historic roots in rap music's Bronx birth, Spanish speakers have often found themselves taken for granted in the hip-hop conversation, institutionally marginalized in a culture they'd not only co-founded but helped to grow and thrive for decades.
Wade felt taken for granted by a Miami front office that had indeed asked for a great deal of sacrifice from him over the years, and so he opted for a sort of direct-to-DVD version of LeBron's homecoming narrative.
"We will most likely be stuck with a kind of toll road of extra charges for each service on the web that up till now we have taken for granted," the artist and writer Mira Schor told me over email.
Analytics, taken for granted by indie creators across platforms like YouTube, SoundCloud and more, are often either invisible or very strictly guarded and doled out once an artist makes a deal with a label, who treats those insights as proprietary.
These shows reminded me that nothing should be taken for granted, whether it's drawing with a pencil or crayon, painting with a brush or broom, writing a line of poetry, or reading and interpreting text, from the classical to the arcane.
But on Thursday morning, a government minister was attacked while walking to work alone in the capital city, leading Ms. Ardern to warn that New Zealanders' unusual level of access to the country's lawmakers should not be taken for granted.
Nika Elugardo, a Democrat who beat a powerful incumbent in the Massachusetts House on Tuesday, said Mr. Trump's election had created a new sense of urgency and boldness in communities that some Democrats had taken for granted in the past.
As we find ourselves in a position of cherishing what we've always taken for granted, we need to retrain our minds as well as our bodies because right now we're all dancers, and we need to start acting like it.
Ms. Ocasio-Cortez's victory is also a reminder of the importance of improving healthy competition in Democratic primaries, where voters are too often taken for granted, especially in solidly blue states like New York, leading to lethargic turnout and weaker candidates.
If the court decides that the law, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, applies to many millions of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees across the nation, they would gain basic protections that other groups have long taken for granted.
WATFORD, England (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday that NATO was rock solid in its commitment to protect its members but that peace could not be taken for granted and so the alliance should discuss emerging threats.
"Let me just say this in terms of commentary today, particularly in British media, I would urge caution that an imminent breakthrough is not necessarily to be taken for granted, not by a long shot," Simon Coveney told a conference.
French's readers like to go online and rank the books (six so far, counting "The Trespasser") in order of preference, and while there's no consensus, it's taken for granted that anybody who's read one will very shortly have read them all.
MOSCOW, Dec 25 (Reuters) - Russian Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina said the next six months were the most likely time horizon for an interest rate cut but this should not be taken for granted, Interfax news agency reported on Wednesday.
"Just as all new, successful technologies are taken for granted by each generation that has never lived without them, the technologies' existence will be part of the fabric and foundation for that generation," said Jonathan Collins, a research director at ABI.
After the surprise announcement, which came on the first day of the Republican National Convention, Wall Street sources sounded off on the idea that a Republican would reverse course on policies nearly 20 years old and now taken for granted by big banks.
Since the rate debate intensified last year, Brainard has spoken ahead of five out of the six key policy meetings, laying out her view that the U.S. recovery could not be taken for granted in a world of potentially perpetual economic weakness.
But at a time when judges have signaled a seeming willingness to rethink America's strict press freedom protections, a president has vowed to tighten libel laws, and media lawsuits from strong-arming billionaires are piling up, nothing can be taken for granted.
On November 14th, to the delight of sweet-toothed Bengalis, India's official registry of legally protected "geographical indications" ruled that this spongy white ball of cottage cheese, soaked in syrup, is originally from West Bengal—as locals have always taken for granted.
For me and most of my friends be they Brits, EU or international citizens the vote on 23rd has had a fundamental impact on what we had taken for granted in British values meaning that we no longer see ourselves living here forever.
Since the rate debate intensified last year, Brainard has spoken ahead of five out of the six key policy meetings, laying out her view that the U.S. recovery could not be taken for granted in a world of potentially perpetual economic weakness.
Speaking to CNBC, Ermotti said that a Macron win in the French election cannot be taken for granted, but if the centrist does become the next President of France, his big test will be putting together a government that will reform the country.
Scale is something that's often taken for granted in an age of video game epics like Skyrim and GTAV, but when every horizon you see through your own point-of-view is conquerable, you're left to either feel very bold or very lost.
She's drawn to weeds because they're at once ubiquitous and invisible, such as the wild mustard that cloaks the city's hillsides in spring, staining them an acid yellow — taken for granted as a backdrop but, in a vase, unrecognizable and thrillingly new.
In short order I found myself questioning things I had taken for granted: that I would be around to see my daughter graduate from high school, that my wife and I would grow old together, that I would finish the textbook I'm writing.
As the Saudi Kingdom girds for the economic fallout of a price war, will the appetite for risky tech investments evaporate, cutting off a source of capital that startups like Uber and SoftBank Vision Fund's collection of companies have taken for granted?
In the meantime, some of the void is being filled by legions of sewers, called to duty in a matter of days via social media and word of mouth, their skills no longer taken for granted or dismissed as a mere hobby.
"We have never lived through anything like this and our society, which had grown used to changes that expand our possibilities of knowledge, health and life, now finds itself in a war to defend all we have taken for granted," Sanchez said.
So when Collins was asked after his club's rousing 9-4 victory over the Chicago Cubs at Citi Field on Wednesday night whether his starter, Matt Harvey, was hurt, it was taken for granted that his answer was less than totally serious.
WATFORD, England, Dec 4 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday that NATO was rock solid in its commitment to protect its members but that peace could not be taken for granted and so the alliance should discuss emerging threats.
It's often taken for granted that workers will be available if jobs are created, but without the needed changes in policy that address the disappearing American worker, a significant number of Americans will never experience the social and economic virtues of work.
For the most part, technological advance follows a familiar curve: initial public skepticism gives way to gradual adoption, until finally the product – whether it be cameras, smartphones, or drones – is so thoroughly integrated into modern life that it is taken for granted.
A lot of the songs on "Views" find Drake running through his relationship woes, recounting arguments at the Cheesecake Factory or dead-end discussions about trust, wondering if he was so "good" that it was inevitable that he would be taken for granted.
That said, Baumbach's snub in the Globes' best-director category, as well as the inability of "Marriage Story" to land a SAG nod for its ensemble, provide signs that the film could be taken for granted when up against more technically audacious competition.
European Central Bank policymakers worried about a possible overshoot in the euro when they met on July 20, warning that easy financing conditions "could not be taken for granted" and depended on the ECB's easy policy, minutes of the meeting showed on Thursday.
"Although earnings continue to outstrip inflation, a second stutter in as many months will serve as a stark reminder that the retail sector's recent growth should not be taken for granted," Philipp Gutzwiller, head of retail at Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking, said.
Even within the large domestic territory of a country like America, mobility cannot be taken for granted; it has been falling in recent decades, even as economic fortunes have diverged and an opioid epidemic has ravaged some parts of the country while sparing others.
It's taken for granted now, but Nintendo was such a juggernaut at the time that it convinced Toys"R"Us to feature multiple rows of Nintendo merchandise, as the Japanese company sold other retailers on its World of Nintendo store-within-a-store concept.
A commemorative collage of all seven children is propped up on a fireplace mantle, and Janelle and Ted say seeing the faces of their lost children is a reminder to them that "every single moment" is precious – and that nothing should be taken for granted.
Saudi Arabia's income has sharply declined as a result of the prolonged drop in oil prices — caused, in part, by the regime's insistence on maintaining production levels — and the government has announced cutbacks in the lavish welfare spending that Saudis have long taken for granted.
The trick was to turn this appeal inside out, so that what appear at first to be outlandish and sometimes repellent practices come to seem natural and sensible, and our own practices, whose reasonableness we had taken for granted, start to appear tribal and arbitrary.
"[Schultz] went on to talk about how Hipsterbucks will not 'Stand by or stand silent' and stated that with Trump's order 'we' are sounding an 'alarm' to Starbucks that civility and human rights are being taken for granted," Black Rifle wrote on its blog.
From the irreverent, slapstick humor and gorgeous, jaw-dropping visuals (Vice Admiral Holdo's sacrifice, I'm looking at you) to the thoughtful rethink of the Jedi mythos Star Wars fans have taken for granted, Last Jedi boldly steps away from the rest of the franchise.
The company maintains an aggressive research division based in Pittsburgh that's working on self-driving technology, and at corporate headquarters it's taken for granted that the existing hailing business is just a stool to be kicked aside soon enough in favor of the robotic future.
Relaxed export controls in the early 2000s and advances in technology have made encryption a protection that is increasingly taken for granted, as people buy updated iPhones and use messaging services like WhatsApp that have built-in encryption to manage who can access data.
Although political theorists have long considered democratic governments to be among the most stable forms of governance, new research by an international team of complex systems theorists that analyzes how democracies become destabilized suggests that the stability of democratic governments has been taken for granted.
But it was the blast furnace that our newspaper's camera lingered on, gazing past the out-of-focus workers in the foreground, as if just by keeping the furnace lit we could have preserved the comfort and security we had so long taken for granted.
As he seeks in Singapore to make the world safer, President Trump would do well to remember that as exciting, shiny and historic a new relationship with North Korea may be, old, reliable and proven friends like Canada should never be taken for granted.
Not only do you have to somehow get Trump to credibly commit to things that Western countries have long taken for granted, but you also have to do it while working around his fragile ego, sensitivity to slights real or perceived, and autocratic tendencies.
"OMG they were roommates" feels like a reverse-engineered twist: Where normally the surprise would be two roommates falling in love and deepening their relationship, here, that twist is taken for granted, and the surprise is that our presumed lovers were roommates all along!
"Elected officials and the business leadership in Mississippi have taken for granted a lot of the ways to get things done in Mississippi because of people like Thad Cochran," said Ray Mabus, a former Democratic governor who was Navy secretary during the Obama administration.
It was a contest between angry, disaffected nationalists who want to beat back what they see as a remote and overreaching bureaucracy in Brussels, against the once-sleepy, complacent supporters of Europe looking to defend a unity that can no longer be taken for granted.
"The rationale for us is that our votes need to be earned and that we've been taken for granted, and the party never moves to us," said Alyson Metzger, a 54-year-old writer and progressive activist in New York City who supports Sanders.
Remedy Entertainment has hit just such a perfect blend of atmospheric ingredients—inspired lighting choices, the subtle mixture of mundane and unreal, use of full-motion video interludes to further distance players from the game world—that the normalcy never feels taken for granted.
"The right to vote can be taken for granted until someone tries to take it away from you, and then it can be the reason you do vote," said Jodi Gillette, a Standing Rock member who worked for the Interior Department under President Barack Obama.
The recent murder of Christopher Chege Musando, a senior manager of information technology for the national election commission, has dramatically ratcheted up anxiety levels, even though the public knew that a repeat of the largely peaceful 2013 elections could not be taken for granted.
"If you dream of finding money in your own purse or wallet, this may represent a renewed sense of self-appreciation, self-worth and the ability to value the essential aspects of your life that you may have previously taken for granted," said Walden.
McManus, a beef farmer from Kinawley in the North who lives a six minute drive away in the Irish village of Swanlinbar, says residents will not stand for any sort of intrusion into the normality they have taken for granted over the past 20 years.
But Ms. Freeman, whose recently completed book about violence in Congress in the decades before the Civil War will be published next year, said that Hamilton's papers offered a timely reminder that the hard-won norms of American democracy should not be taken for granted.
" But, he continued in that book, they missed "an entire spectrum of sights and sounds and smells and sensations that we had taken for granted in Provence, from the smell of thyme in the fields to the swirl and jostle of Sunday-morning markets.
Race is always present in Season 3, and it comes by its focus on the subject honestly — nothing about Wayne's status as a black cop on the force is taken for granted, and the effect of racial stereotypes on the carriage of justice is also examined.
Last year, a group of high-profile black women activists and politicians argued that black women voters were being taken for granted by the Democratic Party, writing in an open letter to DNC chair Perez that the party needed to better support this part of the base.
In the original films, it's taken for granted that Daniel LaRusso's transition from bullied outcast to karate champion is a hero's journey, that Mr. Miyagi is a bottomless font of wisdom and a benevolent badass, and that LaRusso deserves to win the pretty blonde at the end.
The only concrete conception of these ideas comes from science fiction, like cyberpunk classic Ghost in the Shell or the Deus Ex video game series, in which it's taken for granted that society has figured out most of the hard problems and ironed out all the kinks.
It may not be a great phone, either — frustratingly, the Fold's front screen is far smaller than that of most of today's phones, there's no S-Pen stylus support, and it's missing features we've taken for granted from Samsung like expandable microSD storage and a headphone jack.
FRANKFURT, Aug 17 (Reuters) - European Central Bank policymakers worried about a possible overshoot in the euro when they met on July 20, warning that easy financing conditions "could not be taken for granted" and depended on the ECB's easy policy, minutes of the meeting showed on Thursday.
That status was until recently taken for granted, but Novès's inheritance from his predecessor, Philippe Saint-André, includes four consecutive lower-half finishes in Six Nations — France's worst run since the 1920s — and a 62-13 ejection by New Zealand in the World Cup last autumn.
It's usually taken for granted that life expectancy rises each year, especially in developed countries like the US. The CDC's new report highlights the need for an examination into why life expectancy is now going in the wrong direction, and what can be done to address it.
"The last few years provided the wake-up call of all wake-up calls that water is precious and not to be taken for granted," said Felicia Marcus, chair of the State Water Resources Control Board, one of several state agencies that worked on the proposal.
Thought bubble: This seems obvious, but: given that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke created a messy situation with his abrupt announcement that Florida was off the table for offshore leasing, not to mention the Trump administration's messy rollout of multiple policies, nothing can be taken for granted.
"Over the last ten to 12 years, it's become a cultural phenomenon, and their efficacy is almost taken for granted," said Tim Caulfield, who holds the Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy at the University of Alberta, and is an author of the new report.
Even deeper, in the sinews of America's inner workings, the conversation around voting rights and social order seems primed to turn the clock back 100 years, political gridlock is now taken for granted, and the long-term effects of the Great Recession lie tick-tocking in wait.
But while we didn't end up ruined by the immediate expense of diapers and burp cloths, I vastly underestimated what becoming a mother would do to something I'd taken for granted: the ability to turn my thoughts into words, and to turn those words into a livelihood.
The decision for now to stay out of a pivotal 2018 Senate race will likely send shockwaves through the Republican Party and fits with a broader theme from the Koch network's summer meeting that the network feels like it has been "taken for granted" by the GOP.
As I detail in my book, the railroad industry, in particular, has a number of features based on past disasters that are taken for granted today: lighted signals, crossbars, airbrakes, control towers, even the timetables themselves that came about as a way to avoid head-on collisions.
This once-standard outcome used to be taken for granted but is no longer after Mr. Trump blew up this year's G-7 summit and rattled leaders at NATO, and, just two weeks ago, Vice President Pence left the Asia-Pacific Economic Conference without any agreement.
We are now living in an era not of post-racialism but of unabashed racialism, a time when many white Americans feel free to speak openly of their nostalgia for an age when their cultural, political and economic dominance could be taken for granted — no apologies required.
That raised the possibility that Mr Conte, who belongs to neither party in his coalition, might not get the thumbs-down, or that, if he resigned, a new government could even be formed, backed by the Five Stars and the PD. Nothing can be taken for granted.
Fueling the shift from confrontation to negotiation, analysts say, is the sobering realization that a decades-old cornerstone of American policy in the Middle East — the understanding that the United States would defend the Saudi oil industry from foreign attacks — can no longer be taken for granted.
"This is an exciting time to be at the Justice Department, when so much that has been taken for granted for so long is being seriously reconsidered," he wrote to Judge Henry Friendly, for whom he had worked before serving as a law clerk to Rehnquist.
Still, others watching the Oscar game feel that Mr. Spielberg remains a man whose talents are taken for granted by many academy members, and whose current work invariably competes with the high bar he set for himself with "Schindler's List" (1993), his multiple-Oscar-winning drama.
"An algorithm's accuracy can't be taken for granted, and we need to test these tools to ensure that they are performing as we expect them to," said Julia Dressel, who conducted the study for her Dartmouth College undergraduate thesis with Hany Farid, a computer science professor there.
On the institutional side, the advocacy of crucial enthusiasts, such as the dealer Sidney Janis and, above all, MOMA director Alfred Barr, drew attention to works that, to prior generations, would not have been considered art or would have been taken for granted as utilitarian crafts.
A repeat still remains a distant prospect, of course — Real Madrid and Bayern Munich, both likely to progress on Wednesday, were most likely not too disappointed to see both Barcelona and City eliminated — but it provides a salutary reminder that nothing can be taken for granted in this competition.
Regardless, the simple act of logging into our phone via a secure form of login, like pass codes or fingerprints, is now taken for granted in much of Apple's ecosystem, when just a few years ago, anyone could have stolen my phone and had access to my personal information.
For example, his book on anti-slavery activists, Bury the Chains, has become an inspiration to groups fighting climate change—for they too are asking for a moral revolution that will require the abolition of a source of wealth, profit, and power that has long been taken for granted.
" To Negus, Strachan continues, "this resulted in a 'taken for granted way of working in which staff view artists that can be accommodated to the conventions of the rock tradition as long-term career acts', whereas pop, soul and dance acts are viewed as 'short-term fashion dependent artists'.
Unlike other festivals where the artistry is centered and the business side taken for granted, Visa For Music operates under the knowledge that someone, somewhere is going to profit off the arts; and it might as well be the artists and promoters and labels from the native countries.
You couldn't have a branding strategy like Chick-fil-A's or Nike's, he said, in the religio-social environment that dominated America for much of its history, precisely because the idea that America was a "Christian nation" — and that patriotism and Christianity were intertwined — was taken for granted.
Despite this, polling last year indicates that black women increasingly do not think the Democratic Party best represents their interests (dropping 11 percentage points in one year) and in separate polling nearly two-out-of-three blacks expressed frustration with being taken for granted by the Democratic Party.
Clinton and her advisers had taken for granted that states like Michigan and Wisconsin would stick with a Democratic nominee, and that she could repeat Mr. Obama's strategy of mobilizing the party's ascendant liberal coalition rather than pursuing a more moderate course like her husband did 24 years ago.
WASHINGTON — By riding his appeal among working-class whites to the top of the Republican Party, Donald J. Trump has emboldened conservative thinkers to press their party of business and the privileged to reshape its economic canon to more directly benefit poorer workers it has often taken for granted.
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Filipino women are paddling for gold in this year's dragon boat races in Hong Kong, with one thing separating them from the competition - they are all maids, often taken for granted in the rich Chinese-ruled city, who no longer want to feel left out.
I think, for example, the general Data Protection Act that is starting this year will make it very clear that the kind of surveillance capitalist economy that we've taken for granted for the last 25 years doesn't work and is — at least in terms of this new law — illegal.
Since at least Aristotle, the idea that life must've started on Earth was more or less taken for granted in the scientific community, until Wickramasinghe proposed that some dust in interstellar space contained carbon, which would make it organic—a theory he would later prove to be correct.
I understand that many of them — many of us — believe the 2016 election marked a political watershed in which liberties we have long taken for granted are being attacked and possibly jeopardized by a president whose open contempt for a free press has few precedents in American history.
The primacy over Latin America that Washington had largely taken for granted since the end of the Cold War was being challenged by a cadre of leftist presidents who governed much of the region — including Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Ecuador, Uruguay and Bolivia — and wanted a more autonomous region.
They also, importantly, respect national sovereignty and recognize the difficult domestic politics of subsidy reform which cannot be taken for granted in order to end this long-held practice and put G-20 members in a position to reap reputational, financial, and environmental gains from removing fossil fuel subsidies.
They don't understand that their seven- and eight-figure salaries exist only because players from the 1960s, '70s and '80s — who are now in their 60s, 19573s and 80s themselves — risked and even sacrificed their careers to fight for basic employment rights that are now taken for granted.
But many policies important to U.S. security that Washington has taken for granted — such as transmigration, border security, intelligence exchanges and military cooperation — could be jeopardized if Mexicans demand that their government put all issues of our bilateral agenda on the negotiating table to level the diplomatic playing field.
"'Remain' has been boosted by a Conservative swing, but they are also more likely to change their mind, so in this volatile election, with voters divided over the short and long-term impacts of their decision, nothing can be taken for granted," Skinner said, adding Cameron's campaigning may have swayed them.
Now known simply as Snack Packs (Hunt's was purchased by ConAgra some time ago), the individual chocolate pudding cups that we have perhaps taken for granted in more recent years make a brief but memorable appearance in the series' eighth episode, which has sparked an increase in demand, according to TMZ.
" While the Fed's independence is more assured now than in the 1960s, when its actions were openly and strongly criticized by the president, Lacker added, "given various legislative proposals that have emerged in the last few years, I think wed all agree that central bank independence cannot be taken for granted.
Chris Coons (D-DE) then asked him what would convince him on the scientific evidence, and Perry responded that he would like to see a "red-team approach," where a group would systematically challenge what is taken for granted about climate science in an effort to make it more rigorous.
Most important, her imputed leadership savvy, like Greenspan's long pre-crash tour atop the Fed, is routinely taken for granted as the most accurate and astute analysis of The Current Situation that will either one day produce, or is already leading to, a well-thought-out, nimble, and unassailable tactical response.
By then, of course, Washington&aposs dominance of the Mideast arms trade was taken for granted, despite an occasional large British or French deal like the scandal-plagued Al Yamamah sale of fighter planes and other equipment to the Saudis, the largest arms deal in the history of the United Kingdom.
" While the Fed's independence is more assured now than in the 1960s, when its actions were openly and strongly criticized by the president, Lacker added, "given various legislative proposals that have emerged in the last few years, I think we'd all agree that central bank independence cannot be taken for granted.
At that time, the question of which Bowie you were going to get wasn't to be taken for granted, but according to Schapiro, the one who greeted that afternoon was soft-spoken, relaxed, and polite, charmed to learn that the photographer had once shot Buster Keaton, one of Bowie's heroes.
Surely, similar town hall meetings are playing out around the country, where residents are upset that, through a combination of underfunding, tax cuts, climate change, and simple aging, services that are taken for granted such as functioning roads, subway systems, and lead-free drinking water are no longer a given.
Amid this ceaseless barrage, things many of us have taken for granted have been called into question, including the endurance of liberal democracy, the political salience of truth and the assumption that it would be a big scandal if a president were caught directing illegal payoffs to a pornographic film actress.
Analysis: Our correspondent writes that voting was a contest between angry, disaffected nationalists who want to beat back what they see as a remote and overreaching bureaucracy in Brussels, and the once-sleepy, complacent supporters of Europe looking to defend a unity that can no longer be taken for granted.
Britain has got to have a "clear plan" to maintain the City's place at the centre of the global financial system because success cannot be taken for granted, Glen said, adding that finance minister Philip Hammond will set out how to build on the City's strength in a speech on Thursday.
Color of Change: The campaign was one that really led on, or capitalized on the unsaid norms of society — the idea that if you grew up in the south then plantations are okay to be used as wedding venues, and that's something that more or less has been taken for granted.
Asked about a controversy over Buttigieg's campaign using a stock photo of a Kenyan woman to promote his racial equality plan, Harris used the moment to speak to a broader issue: "For too long, candidates have taken for granted constituencies that have been the backbone of the Democratic Party," Harris said.
Juul paints a picture of the world of games not as a place where definitions or ideas fight one another but instead as a big, clumsy zone with fundamental assumptions are often taken for granted and games that get put into categories that allow us to make sense of the world.
Nevertheless, the way "Toy Story 4" straddles that line is so deft as to be taken for granted, and the story takes unexpected risks that speak to the genuine creative artistry at work here, not just as an engine to push consumer products (although rest assured, there will be plenty of that too).
He was English, everyone else was Hungarian, and he soon realised that he was being put to the test not so much for his prowess on the violin—given his training, that was taken for granted—but for his musical ideas, his personal qualities and his ability and willingness to work with colleagues.
In my own strange, roundabout way, I was becoming a convert to the cause of democracy at precisely the moment a huge swath of liberal Americans had suddenly decided that something was shockingly, horribly wrong with the system of government they had long taken for granted as the best in the world.
That all the songs sounded as if they belonged on the same album in the given particular sequence wasn't unique to Pepper; it was its formal weirdness that prompted fans, critics, and believers in great art to notice a level of craft overlooked and/or taken for granted with more familiar popular styles.
"He speaks to and connects with those workers who didn't believe the last Democratic nominee heard about them, cared about them, and felt that their historic votes for the Democratic candidate were maybe just being taken for granted," said Harold Schaitberger, president of the International Association of Fire Fighters, which endorsed Mr. Biden.
Where fifty years ago it was taken for granted that the problem of age was a problem of the inevitable running down of everything, entropy working its worst, now many researchers are inclined to think that the problem is "epigenetic": it's a problem in reading the information—the genetic code—in the cells.
Now, for decades, they have been taken for granted by the Democratic Party, to which most blacks shifted their allegiance beginning with President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal and especially after President Lyndon B. Johnson successfully pressed for enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 28503 and the Voting Rights Act of 22019.
Indeed, much of what we have taken for granted about Zika — that it is a threat unique to the Western Hemisphere; that it may only recently have evolved the ability to cause microcephaly and brain damage in babies; and that it hasn't hurt women and children in Africa — is now in serious doubt.
If David Cameron was obsessed with winning over middle-class Britons who were disillusioned with Tony Blair, Mrs May's obsession is courting struggling Britons who have been taken for granted by Labour for decades and who may at last have been shaken free from their old loyalties by the twin shocks of Brexit and Corbynism.
While this sort of collective action is taken for granted today as just one thread in the fabric that is backlash culture, in an era when Hollywood had almost unrestrained power and audiences had such limited programming options, the idea that viewers could lobby a major television network — and win — was nothing short of revelatory.
"The 14 projects would still need the approval of the individual financing programmes to get the grants, so this is indeed not something that could have been taken for granted prior to the commitment that President Juncker gave yesterday to President Trump," Mina Andreeva, deputy chief spokeswoman for the Commission, told CNBC in an email.
"For too long I think candidates have taken for granted constituencies that have been the backbone of the Democratic Party, and overlook those constituencies, and show up when it's close to election time, show up at a black church and want to get a vote," Harris said in one exchange with Buttigieg at the debate.
Watch the VICE News documentary, America's Election 2016: Pro-Choice in Colorado:  Karen Middleton, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado, told VICE News that even though Colorado was the first state to legalize abortions, and its legislature is currently led by Democrats and thus largely pro-choice, reproductive rights shouldn't be taken for granted.
I don't think there will be one big 'aha' moment of VR. I think it will eventually come to us like many technologies in America (like the internet and mobile phone): injected rapidly and absorbed almost so naturally into a wider cultural use and imagination that it will become taken for granted and cease to be remarked on.
Consumer spending was very strong and you think about that in the context of lower prices at the gas pump and as we are watching oil prices pick up should we worry that maybe that is going to hurt the consumer, that we've taken for granted all of this extra spending they've been doing because of low gas prices?
Spain is making noises about regaining sovereignty over the Rock of Gibraltar, a British possession off the Spanish coast, if its residents want to remain in the EU. Brexit was a such a surprise, and such a radical break with the status quo, that things that have long been taken for granted are now entirely unsettled.
The prime minister's battle plan is to expand the Tories' support deep into Labour territory: just as David Cameron won back middle-class voters who had defected to New Labour, Mrs May wants to win over working-class voters who feel that they have been taken for granted by Labour and are looking for a change.
In recent years, that special relationship has been tough: Barack Obama made his opposite number David Cameron work hard at it, with the President making clear to Britain that it could not be taken for granted by symbolically moving a bust of Winston Churchill out of the Oval Office shortly after he entered the White House.
NASA Is Going to Light a &aposLarge Fire&apos on a SpaceshipOn a press call this afternoon, NASA and its research partners discussed several science…Read more ReadThe launch window opens at 2305 Eastern, and assuming that nothing goes wrong (not taken for granted these days), Cygnus will rendezvous with the ISS at 6AM Saturday morning.
For example, Saudi Arabia was hailed by some last year for allowing women to participate in elections for weak municipal councils, even as it still required women to have permission from a male guardian in order to conduct normal daily activities taken for granted by women in most of the world (and, for that matter, by men everywhere).
Attendees will take questions from an audience of more than 1,000 people, with others having an option to submit questions through a livestream, according to Allison, who formed the group saying she thinks women of color are taken for granted and underrepresented as Democratic candidates and office-holders despite their historical support of the party, according to NBC.

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