IR--You take it as given that Britain's National Health Service is in financial crisis (March 15th), and imply that people are unwilling to pay higher taxes to help improve it.
The principal reason for such a pessimistic assessment is that the IMF and World Bank are obliged in structuring their programs to take as a given the existing political and economic systems of prospective borrowers.
He seems to just take it as a given that patents promote innovation.
"You can never take selection as a given and I am stunned and delighted to be nominated to go to my third Paralympics, " he said.
It sounds ridiculous, but Generation Next (have they named the post-Gen-X and Gen-Y crowd yet?) will probably take such features as a given.
What about our poorer and distant neighbors, the folk elsewhere in Africa and India, for example, scouring nearly around the clock for the means of basic survival such as finding relative safety, drinkable water, and food of any kind that we, with our self-induced complicated lives, take for granted as a basic given?
In every category given as a reason to take a vacation, the actual results afterwards were higher than expected.
Both candidates take the framework of the Bush tax cuts as given.
Some may conclude that it is fair to take back the money given to the poor as soon as they are no longer really poor.
Livi chairman Dominic Keane had said that David McEwan would be given his chance to take over as first choice and was again in goal on Tuesday at Firhill.
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's (nyse: NWS - news - people ) MySpace and Time Warner 's (nyse: TWX - news - people ) AOL could theoretically take their business away from DoubleClick as well, given that Google has begun transforming into a rival publisher via sites like YouTube and its Blogger network.
It says vice-chancellors had given them no option but to take action as a last resort.
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Boeing doesn't take the current hub-and-spoke model as a given.
But given their role as arbiters, Quartet members can take punitive action against Israel if it fails to comply with their wishes.
"It has focused on its other lines, such as handsets, but given attention and resources, it could take a larger share of the music player market, " says Susan Kevorkian, a director of consumer market research at IDC.
"We take the information that was given at these meetings and from the written submissions as to what the best way of managing prisons in Northern Ireland, " said Mr Ford.
The U.S. partnering strategy of "Shohna ba Shohna" (Shoulder to Shoulder) has abruptly given way to "After You, " as Afghan security forces take the lead -- sometimes reluctantly.
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Yet the Supreme Court was always likely to decide as it has, given the appeal court's almost desperate desire to take the case, and its promise to hear it quickly.
So while in India, our protagonist scrambles up a ladder of fantasy and make-believe to take on his tormentors as a slumdog millionaire, in America, our protagonist ascends a ladder given to him by his own society and its people--given to him as reward for a mutiny that was thought to ennoble not merely the protagonist and His Kind, but all of America.
The present hive has been placed on a south-facing roof to take advantage of what sun and warmth there is and the bees are being given supplementary feed as a precaution.
As well as the RAF Waddington show, the Vulcan has been given the green light to take part in the Royal International Air Tattoo in Fairford, Gloucestershire, and the Farnborough airshow in Hampshire.
It may also help China to develop domestic demand that can take up the slack when America's appetite for cheap goods falters, as it inevitably must given the paucity of its national savings.
It could take months for a decertification to be processed while the NFLPA can disclaim as soon as a letter is given Judge Doty.
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Yum had warned investors on February 4, noting earnings would probably take a big hit in the first half of the year given the probe by Shanghai authorities, as my colleague Abram Brown reported.
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If you're looking for a product to help with more significant discomfort, over-the-counter pain relievers such as acetaminophen or ibuprofen given in the appropriate dose for a child's weight can take the edge off of teething pain.
"The presidency is an independent office and the Irish people whom I appreciate so much and I take with such responsibility have given a very clear mandate on a very clear set of ideas to me, as the ninth president, " he said.
No reason was given for Daly's decision not to take the stand during a trial which heard evidence in Dublin as well as Belfast.
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