Sentence examples for accept as a given from inspiring English sources

Economists generally accept as a given the old adage that there's no accounting for tastes.

His Americanism will be an idea that the G.O.P. can accept as a given or use to discredit itself.

Utopian visions here on Earth seem to accept as a given the ultimate triumph of the benevolent in mankind.

I think you have to accept as a given that it's going to take six months or a year before people get used to this".

Many diplomats here also seem to accept as a given that President Clinton does not want a showdown with Iraq just before elections in the United States in November.

Though Theo sometimes longs for clarity or peace, both he and the book accept as a given that many people struggle almost all the time -- and that such struggling doesn't preclude moments of humor and comfort.

He describes omnipresent violence at a time when there is no war — a backdrop of brutality, accepted as a given.

"It's almost now being accepted as a given that the macroeconomy is on a very solid footing," said Bill Meade, managing director at RBC Capital Markets.

The data reinforced what many on Wall Street had already accepted as a given: the Federal Reserve will hold interest rates steady at its meeting that ends Wednesday.

The passing of political conviction is accepted as a given whatever one's political conviction, but it is the left that stands to lose most.

But he also -- I think inexcusably -- accepts as a given the film's palliative alterations and then proceeds to soften the drama even further.