"For years straight people have been taking for granted the notion of watching a relationship on stage that's easily accessible to them," he said.
Granted, the notion is a bit abstract, which is why we were pleased to find that readers took to it so naturally.
The reaction was revealing, since it took for granted the notion that climate change is a minor issue, a cause without real casualties, frivolous even.
Granted, the notion of buliding a moon base out of the moon itself seems more than a little out there, but it's really just a modern twist on an well-worn concept.
If you live in the U.S. or the U.K., you can take recorded deeds for granted; the notion of enforceable rights to real estate goes back to feudal times.
The error in that line of thinking is that it took for granted this notion that there wouldn't be any sort of technological innovation in agriculture.
on Saturday for taking for granted the notion of a woman president, the bluntness of her language caught people off guard.
One thing that people take for granted is this notion of freedom of assembly, which I have never taken for granted because I come from a country where freedom of assembly is not granted.
Shifting our paradigm thus entails examining the taken-for-granted notion that healthy, happiness, and beauty come in one uniformly narrow size, and asking: who benefits when we buy into this belief?
This notion, sometimes granted the unwarranted dignity of being called a theory, is hardly new.
Most retailers, for example, now take for granted the formerly radical notion that a store is not a building.
