But his legal advisors in Belgrade say he will not attend Tuesday's hearings until he is granted his several-month extension.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

Traditionally, financial inventions were not granted patent rights, but now in the United States and in a number of other countries it has become possible to patent financial inventions.

传统的金融产品,是没有专利的,但现在,在美国,和其他的一些国家中,金融产品也拥有了专利

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To leave home and to establish a new city for themselves someplace else is not to be taken for granted.

我们不能理所当然地认为,这是为了建立一个新的城市

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She says that the goods and services provided by nature - like clean air, rain or fertile soils - should not be taken for granted.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

This was a radical concept in its day, evidently. The punishment should fit the crime, no more and no less for all free persons--granted slaves are not included--regardless of social class. Equality before the law.

很显然，这是当时最根本的概念，惩罚应该,与罪行相符，不偏向任何自由人，不顾社会阶级,当然奴隶除外，法律面前人人平等。

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Human Rights Council in Geneva. He has been the Special Rapporteur for North Korea since 2004, but has never been granted permission to enter the country and has not received cooperation from the country's government.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

We should not take that for granted.

我们不能小看它

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