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In the US, it is taken for granted that states and municipalities can and do go bust.
BBC: The eurozone's borrowing costs may stay lethally high
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Therefore, it is taken for granted that it cares for Ecuadorian citizens and the environment where they operate.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy
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In his view, what gadget buyers increasingly care about is not so much the gadgets themselves - it is taken for granted that rival brands are all pretty good - as the quality of the software and services they deliver.
BBC: How Apple and Google's fortunes are linked
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Constitutions written in the 20th century, however for instance, the one written by Americans for Japan after the second world war show that it is now taken for granted that the state has a duty to ensure that all its children receive an education.
ECONOMIST: Millennium issue: EDUCATION
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But it means that there is no vote to be taken for granted, that turnout really will make a difference in this election.
NPR: As Election Day Nears, Poll Data Questioned
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It is often said that central and eastern Europe is heavily agricultural, and taken for granted that the new members will fight for generous funding from the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
ECONOMIST: Federalism
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It reinforces the fact that nothing at the Apple Store is taken for granted.
FORBES: Apple's Secret Employee Training Manual Reinvents Customer Service in Seven Ways
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Consequently, it has been taken for granted that the natural order of things is for QE2 to be ended, replaced, or modified well before the end of near-zero Federal Funds sometime late this year, next year, or the year after.
FORBES: The Time Has Come To Raise Interest Rates
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Mr James's main theme is that globalisation cannot be taken for granted: it may slow down, or even retreat, as it did with such calamitous results in the 1930s.
ECONOMIST: Lessons from the Great Depression
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Even greater than the threat to our people and property is the prospect that, with the unleashing of these Pearl Harbor-style bolts-from-the-blue, the civil liberties and freedoms we have taken for granted for so long and that make America the unique and great nation it is may never be quite the same.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: War Comes to America