America is the land of opportunity — all that is deserved is not always granted".
Industry requests for exceptions -- most lasting less than two weeks -- are almost always granted now.
He has ensured that he has an artistic free rein, something not always granted to his predecessors.
Polite, soft-spoken and humble, Mr. Rabbani always granted me an audience, greeting me with a close-lipped smile before offering raisins and walnuts and green tea.
Former judges and prosecutors tend to agree that the court system here has almost always granted extradition requests from the United States.
An aunt had to invite them so they could obtain a Soviet visa, which wasn't always granted, and which only allowed them to travel to Tallinn.
Beginning in the Nixon era and culminating in the 1990s (when Bill Clinton's New Democrats ascended to power), one faction of the party has always granted that conservatives have a point about the excesses of liberal government.
For now, foreigners who wish to buy tracts of rural land bigger than 90 hectares (222 acres), depending on local rules, have to receive approval from local authorities, but approval is almost always granted.
"This is the 21st-century version of the same special access that certain people are always granted to the president," said Joel P. Johnson, a senior White House adviser under Mr. Clinton.
When the British applied their law to Muslims in place of Shariah, as they did in some colonies, the result was to strip married women of the property that Islamic law had always granted them — hardly progress toward equality of the sexes.
