A prime example is what happened at the very end of the Clinton presidency, when a series of questionable presidential pardons were granted that were so outrageously incongruent, the whole episode came to be known as "Pardongate". Among the rogues gallery of pardon recipients courtesy of President Clinton were four convicted swindlers from the town of New Square in Rockland County, New York.
In the interest of reducing the blow to Serbia, the security council must avoid granting independence in ways that are so contorted that the new state cannot effectively function.
There are no rights granted by the Constitution that are so absolute that they erase concerns about public safety and welfare.
With his voting power, Mr. Trump persuaded the Resorts board to grant him a management contract that was so generous that it threatened to consume most of the company's future profits.
I can't think of a single other country in the world where you make references to any political party on a continuous basis with this kind of qualification as if the reference is part of the party's name.I believe that this kind of attribute that is so gratuitously granted is uncalled for, condescending, patronizing disdainful, or at a limit straight insulting.
The people at Quick Hit seem well-meaning, but I simply cannot understand why the N.F.L. granted a license to a product that is so blatantly unfinished.
Let's grant that this is so.
(Clint Eastwood's famous turn at the 2012 Republican National Convention is further evidence of this: America's tough guy took it for granted that he was so naturally amusing that all he had to do was drag an empty chair onstage and start joking).
We take it for granted that we are so frequently asked to declare our gender.
I don't pretend to be a legal expert, but as far as some Googling permits me to understand (and granted, that's only so far with ample room for correction), it appears that Cruz's parents had to have at least begun the Canadian citizenship process to be on this 1974 list.
We need something to help get us from the NRSA postdoc level to the tenure-track level, and now that a growing number of us are becoming senior postdocs, visiting professors, adjunct professors, instructors... we need grants that are also transportable, so that we have a better chance at getting jobs".
