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How will he use the enormous powers granted the Russian president in a political system that lacks any real checks and balances?
This recognition raised expectations for the G-20 and granted it the prestige that it deserved: it is the only forum in which world powers and emerging countries sit as equals at the same table.
In 1998, Russians did not yet take for granted imported cars, foreign tourism, and other middle-class perks.
Such an exercise in renewal would demand that EU institutions be granted real authority to create common fiscal, defense, and energy policies, while at the same time pursuing democratization (along the lines of “one citizen, one vote”).
Finally, the ESM cannot be considered on its own, but must be seen in the context of the total exposure amount, which includes the €1.4 trillion in bailout funds that have already been granted.
The courageous people of Burma, like people everywhere around the world, deserve what far too many of us take for granted.
Individuals are granted both the right to know – to be informed of the results of any genetic test about themselves – and the right to choose to live in ignorance of what a genetic test may predict about their future.
The freedoms that they were so accustomed to, and maybe even took for granted, have now been snatched away.
The Canadian judges held that international law granted no such unilateral right (and nor did the country's own constitution).
Rapid growth is expected; a booming stock market taken for granted.
It happens in so many places and so regularly that we take it for granted and rarely even notice it.
Sentiments that we take for granted in the opinion pages of newspapers rarely find their way into Bollywood blockbusters.
China is far too big to be taken for granted, and it wants to be shown the respect that it associates with being an ancient civilization that has contributed so much to human progress.
The implication is clear: trust between the members of the eurozone cannot be taken for granted, but must be earned and maintained.
Mugabe's challengers would have been given the upper hand in the political conflict, and it might have been taken for granted inside Zimbabwe and the SADC that Mugabe would not and should not contest this round of elections.
On the institutional level, pluralism means that established religions can no longer take for granted that a particular population will supinely submit to its authority.
Could their matter-of-fact achievement be due in part to the fact that their presence is taken for granted and that they are often allowed simply to get on with being effective?
Because Syria's rulers have neither the ability nor the know-how to produce such a vision, civil society has been granted some leeway for action.
Two-thirds of all refinancing loans within the eurozone were granted within the GIPS countries, despite the fact that these countries account for only 18% of eurozone GDP.
But they do not need to be granted full access to the political rights and social benefits of their host society’s citizens.
It reminds us that in a democracy no ideology or party can ever take success for granted.
The official loans granted to the country by the European Central Bank and the international community have increased more than sixfold during the past five years, from €53 billion ($58 billion) in February 2010 to €324 billion, or 181% of GDP, now.
Moreover, Europe too often gives the impression that its citizens can be taken for granted.
For many months, the European Parliament had made it clear that it had specific ideas about how it would exercise its new powers, granted by the Treaty of Lisbon, over the Commission presidency.
Likewise, they insist that mergers and acquisitions, which make big companies bigger, should not be motivated by salary considerations, and that “golden parachutes” should not be granted to failed managers.
Its program Al Itijah al Mu’akess (“the opposite direction”) brought the sort of verbal jousts that most of the world takes for granted but Arabs had never seen televised.
Indeed, so frequent have such crises been over recent years that we seem almost to take them for granted.
We take the resulting narrative effects for granted: surprise endings, intriguing situations, and a compulsion to read or watch until the finish.
Today’s defenders of liberal democracy recognize that nothing can be taken for granted.
On September 9, in the so-called Microsoft case, just one day after the agreement was reached, the US Department of Justice argued in federal court that US authorities should be granted direct access to data held by private companies abroad, including in Europe.
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