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As a result, the continued openness of industrial-country markets cannot be taken for granted.
Many of the journalists and opposition figures were eventually released or granted clemency, but there has been no letup to the torment.
Likewise, UK citizens working across the EU should be granted the right to remain where they are.
They take double-digit growth in their own companies for granted.
The 2003 invasion of Iraq granted the US unfettered access to all possible sites where weapons of mass destruction could be stored.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, peace and liberty are more or less taken for granted.
We can no longer take human prosperity for granted, however rosy the aggregate indicators for profitability and GDP growth may be.
Witness how otherwise sensible adults are reduced to nervously grinning sycophants when they are granted the privilege of touching an extended royal hand.
As a result, it has become urgent to remember that it was the later Victorians who recognized modernity’s moral dimension, originating almost every kind of public reform that we now take for granted as the mark of a civilized society.
Part of the answer is that economics is an inexact science, with exceptions to almost every pattern of behavior that economists take for granted.
With no significant financial crisis since the Great Depression, it was convenient to take for granted that the financial plumbing worked in the background.
Although Obama is likely to give priority in his diplomacy to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, he cannot take the Asia-Pacific region’s stability for granted.
To be sure, the country’s “America” card – the result of the two countries’ longstanding strategic relationship (I myself was educated at West Point and fought alongside US troops in the Korean War) – must be played carefully and not be taken for granted.
Rawls, King, and other defenders of civil disobedience took it for granted that the message – an appeal to principles of justice – would reach a majority of citizens undistorted.
Israel granted citizenship to Abramovich.
Likewise, EU rules stipulating that refugees should be granted asylum in the first member country they reach have proved both unworkable and unfair; because asylum-seekers mostly arrive in southern Europe and want to head north, Greece and Italy ignore the rules and facilitate their passage.
When we do this, what once seemed strange about another culture becomes familiar and understandable, while aspects of our own culture that we took for granted can start to seem rather strange.
State employees would be granted the right to engage in collective bargaining, but would have no right to strike.
After all, smooth transitions of power are not to be taken for granted.
The overwhelming majority of these officials end up receiving doctorates (a master’s degree won’t do anymore in this political arms race) granted through part-time programs or in the Communist Party’s training schools.
Private investors are then granted significant tax incentives to reinvest their unrealized capital gains into OZs through “Opportunity Funds.”
I just took it for granted that, by the time I was, say, 40, space travel would be a common thing.
Nato AdriftWASHINGTON: Suddenly, after endlessly debating the Eastward extension of Nato and the European Union, political leaders in Bonn, Paris and London seem to be waking up to a basic fact: that none of these plans can work unless the United States remain firmly engaged in Europe - and that this engagement can no longer be taken for granted.
Any blatant and repeated violation of this commitment would – and should – result in the loss of the special privileges granted under the TPP.
Palestine must be granted legal status so that, at the very least, its people will have access to the international legal court, with the understanding that international support is required to aid and defend this young state.
If eurozone membership cannot be taken for granted, if countries that do not abide by the common rules can simply be kicked out, countries will try harder to hold onto it.
In order to facilitate their religious duties, the Orthodox metropolitans were granted Turkish citizenship.
Volcker’s victory was institutionalized in legislation and practices that granted central banks greater autonomy and, in some cases, formal independence from long-standing political constraints.
The Court has required that amnesties granted to political and military leaders in Argentina and other countries in the region as part of a transition to democracy be set aside.
Unfortunately for Putin, when the former is called into question by popular protest, the latter can no longer be taken for granted.
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