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In the past, Morsi advocated a platform that excluded Christians from political life and granted Islamic scholars oversight authority to ensure that all legislation complied with Sharia law.
For most countries, trade with the US was the biggest prize, but the fact that the TPP granted access to 40% of the world economy gave the US more bargaining power, not less.
In much of the world, we now take these conveniences for granted; indeed, we regard them as necessities.
Slowly, step by step, a legal and social noose tightens around these cultivated Italians, who took their lives of comfort and influence for granted.
And precedents from Argentina, Chile, and Peru have shown how even in countries where the atrocities occurred, amnesties granted under pressure of violence can be ruled invalid.
Congressional moves to weaken the Dodd-Frank Act, relieving many banks of the requirement to undergo regular stress testing, suggest that this robust health shouldn’t be taken for granted.
And, of course, the resurgence of nationalism and extremism of all kinds around the world is a potent reminder, as if any were needed, that peace is not to be taken for granted.
As a result, mainstream conservatives are more likely to compromise on principles that we have long taken for granted, such as civil equality and religious freedom.
It seems to take for granted a Democratic victory in the US presidential election next year.
This was evident in cases where the International Atomic Energy Agency was granted access to suspected facilities during the negotiations, only to have local commanders turn away its inspectors when they arrived.
They take it for granted.
If Saddam were granted sanctuary in a country such as Belarus or Libya, he would probably remain safe from prosecution, but only as long as he never leaves.
Most people take for granted that they would have that choice, because they do not realize that living in a surveillance society means that eventually everyone must face the same anxieties about exposure as public figures do.
Under “condominialism,” however, both Palestinians and Jews “would be granted the right to settle anywhere within the territory of either of the two states, the two states thus forming a single, binational settlement community.”
Granted, the removal of the unanimity clause provides a way to avoid this obstacle and allow for the pact’s implementation.
Even Germany’s Social Democrats, whose support Chancellor Angela Merkel needs to secure ratification in the Bundestag, appear to have granted only conditional support.
And just before the clause entered Norwegian law, the King of Denmark had granted citizenship to Jews in his realm.
It is only reasonable, then, that workers should be granted the right to some share of the economy’s profits.
Nowadays, even public support for democracy cannot be taken for granted in Germany.
That could not be taken for granted.
Recently, even Irish, spoken at home by only a tiny minority, was granted full official status.
The gap between the respective qualities of China’s economic and scientific elites, on the one hand, and its ruling political elites, on the other, is simply too monumental – and still growing – for stability to be taken for granted.
The move to annex Crimea has reversed any soft-power benefit that Putin might have gained from the Sochi Olympics and the pardons he granted (as recently as December) to imprisoned opponents like Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the members of Pussy Riot.
Indeed, only when victims have stood up and stated their names – granted, a difficult and often painful thing to do – have institutional change and successful prosecutions been possible.
But, even if rapid productivity growth is possible under current circumstances, it cannot be taken for granted.
These quotas, or “reservations,” were granted based on people’s (presumably immutable) caste identities.
He simply takes it for granted that most people prefer to live with their own kind, and that policymakers must attend to this preference.
As more citizens become documentarians, online newspapers will have to curate their work to reflect reality on a level of visual urgency that new readers take for granted.
Moreover, they have been granted direct control over resources – such as land, finance, energy, and raw materials – and local infrastructure development.
But the more important issue, even before Russia granted him temporary asylum, is the status of American civil liberties.
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