Sentence examples for Granted, rather than from inspiring English sources

For him, Darwin was just a part of science, someone to take for granted, rather than a hero who theorised in areas where few dared to tread.

This article was amended on 16 June 2014 to clarify that Magna Carta was granted rather than signed.

The Prime Minister says he took his family for granted, rather than appreciating how lucky he was to have a stable background.

Quoting the American cartoonist and author James Thurber, he wrote: "…most people want to believe rather than to know, to take for granted rather than to find out".

Yesterday Prince broke cover to tweet a cryptic quote by US author and cartoonist James Thurber, "...most people want to believe rather than to know, to take for granted rather than to find out".

He is the perfect age for the task, a post-civil-rights baby blessed with genuinely liberal parents who could take the achievements of the 60's for granted rather than spend his life marveling at them.

Under a cap-and-trade system they do so by freely granting, rather than auctioning off, carbon permits to certain interests.

He gets this response, he thinks, because he has been campaigning for something that would typically be left to Thailand's kings to grant, rather than for any of its businessmen, politicians or ordinary citizens to bring about themselves.

This is compounded by the department's see-no-evil attitude toward veterans in general, and its constant pressure on employees to get the work out at the expense of getting it done right, and to grant, rather than deny, claims regardless of the merits.

The Chronicle now says administrative cost as a percentage of grants for the Northwest Area Foundation was 51%, not 58%; for the William T. Grant Foundation (which handed out $14 million in grants rather than $10 million), 30%, not 48%; and for the Koret Foundation, 14%, not 36%.

And IDA funds should become 100% outright grants, rather than 70% as they are now.