Sentence examples for taking less for granted. from inspiring English sources
Ben's mother, Laura Williams, of New Milford, said her son went into the wilderness as an immature and at times irresponsible teenager, but came back with a different attitude and taking less for granted.
Mourning said that he felt "cocky and invincible" when he was younger, but that the possibility of having to undergo dialysis or a kidney transplant had made him take less for granted.
When we realize that our lives will end, we take less for granted.
Either way, the world we have grown used to and take more or less for granted is unravelling in ways we cannot predict.
The vast Parisian roofscape of Acts I and IV, in which -- fortunately for viewers and listeners -- our bohemians happen to occupy the highest garret, is by now taken more or less for granted.
I take a lot less for granted".
A lot of them are tempted away to places abroad that are desperate for teachers and where the pupils take their education less for granted.
"The idea that democracy is good for art is taken more or less for granted nowadays, & it is only a few weeks since President Kennedy endorsed it in a public statment.
"Her basic position, that discrimination against children requires justification and that courts should have the opportunity to take children's views into account, is more or less taken for granted among people who have thought about children's rights," said Sanford J. Fox, a professor at Boston College Law School who is chairman of an American Bar Association committee on children's rights.
You definitely take it 10 times less for granted, and I wasn't someone who took it for granted in the first place.
I especially like the idea of American kids helping support education abroad, partly because it's hard to find a kind of foreign aid that gets more bang for the buck than education (especially education of girls) and partly because it may lead Americans to take education a bit less for granted when they see foreigners struggling to go to school.
