Sentence examples for could take for granted from inspiring English sources

To be from a country whose existence and survival I could take for granted.

I especially didn't understand how "The Scarlet Pimpernel" could take for granted these casual dealings in blood and terror.

But one thing they could take for granted until 2007-08 was a reasonably well-functioning banking system.

It used to be that the middle class could take for granted certain basic things in this life: light, space, quiet.

But since it began in January 2011, the channel has struggled to attract the viewers and attention that her network show could take for granted.

Gordon Brown's remarkable meltdown has not brought Cameron the sort of poll ratings that even Neil Kinnock could take for granted in the early 1990s.

There were days I sat on the sidelines, fuming with grief and envy that I couldn't move with the grace and fluidity and ease of neurological connection my classmates could seemingly take for granted.

Contexts we could once take for granted, we now must make explicit.

And like good aperitifs, they stimulate the appetite — take note, stadium vendors — not for fancy foods but for the straightforward pleasures that you could once take for granted at a ballpark.

Public opinion polls show no sign that most voters hunger for the tax and spending cuts Mr. Golisano promises, but he is really aiming only at those on the right, a segment Mr. Pataki could otherwise take for granted.

Erdoğan was theatrically demonstrating to the audience, and to the world, that Israel could no longer take for granted its friendship with Turkey.