Sentences with phrase «just taking each other for granted»

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It would seem to be offsetting safety gains from other technologies, including not just new automatic collision avoidance systems, but even now taken - for - granted features like anti-lock brakes, which are equipped on a greater percentage of the U.S. fleet with each passing year.

Richard Dawkins merely states in unvarnished form doctrines that other scientific metaphysicians take for granted: In the beginning were the particles and the impersonal laws of physics; life evolved by a mindless, non-teleological process in which God played no part; and human beings are just another animal species.

And third, we give thanks not in order that God will know that we are thankful but precisely in order to make ourselves thankful: to help ourselves realize not only how lucky we are in comparison to so many others (which is part of it), but how fortunate we are just to be in this world; to help us appreciate the many blessings which each and every one of us enjoys; to rekindle in us the sense of wonder and awe and gratitude in response to all that we so often and so cavalierly take for granted.

Consider this... a person goes to college, gets a four year degree in archaeology (or some antiquities preservation analog); spends summers sifting through sand and rock and gravel, all the while taking graduate level classes... person eventually obtains the vaunted PhD in archaeology... then works his / her tail off seeking funding for an archeological excavation, with the payoff being more funding, and more opportunities to dig in the dirt... do you think professional archaeologists are looking hard for evidence of the Exodus on a speculative basis... not a chance... they know their PhD buys them nothing more than a job at Tel Aviv Walmart if they don't discover and publish... so they write grants for digs near established sites / communities, and stay employed sifting rock in culturally safe areas... not unless some shepard stumbles upon a rare find in an unexpected place do you get archeological interest and action in remote places... not at all surprising that the pottery and other evidence of the Exodus and other biblical events lie waiting to be discovered... doesn't mean not there... just not found yet...

And this is just the sort of way in which cardinal philosophic advances are in fact made; by being more perceptive and more realistic than others are about something which is always taken for granted.

On every other occasion it was our laid back approach against mostly smaller teams that cost us points, where we take the results or points for granted just because opponent is considered smaller than Arsenal.

Living with someone for many years, however, whether married or not, might — might — just cause some people to take each other for granted.

Either way, I think the bigger take - home message is to stop taking each other for granted — whether you're married or just living together.

On the other hand, it can be just as valuable for your teen to spend time with an elderly grandparent in frail health, since this teaches them empathy and appreciation for all the many skills teens may take for granted.

Several of the Democrats interviewed said that they've hardly had a chance to weigh the possibility of supporting someone other than Clinton because, as one put it, «until the revelations involving her emails last week, Hillary's nomination was just taken for granted, seen as a fait accompli.»

No, I'm not forcing etiquette on you, but rather, I'm helping you to see that just like smiling at another person, the words and gestures we often take for granted are significant to others.

Turns out that just like many other aspects of life that we take for granted (like mobile phones, fast food, and bottled water), our shoes can often do more harm than good.

«We wish for all the ordinary expected things that so many other children simply take for granted... When we dream for our children — all of our children — I just think it might be worthwhile for us to remember that the deck is by no means evenly stacked and that dreams are relative.

I ran into many issues with the YotaPhone that I just didn't have with other phones — things I don't even usually need to test because I just take them for granted.

Now to toot my own horn, that's exactly why I wrote The Value of Simple the way I did, because so many other guides take for granted that you already buy and sell stocks or mutual funds and they just have to convince you to shift your focus to a slightly different set of things you already know how to buy.

It's remarkable what some groups of people take for granted, while children in other countries are just happy with anything that they receive.

Just remember whether or not you like or dislike a particular game, you should not take other games for granted.

Perhaps something we take more for granted the series days, but the voice acting of the characters in the Uncharted games is just as important as the other elements of Naughty Dog's creation.

The themes addressed in Soleil Double are not just about the proposed phenomena of two suns in axis around the earth but on a more symbolic level, about the concepts of duplicity and ubiquity, the idea that reality could be something other than what it appears to be at first glance, than what we take for granted as «true» and «right».

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Granted, I could've done this for the other two bulbs I tested, but they use so little power that the measurement on the Kill A Watt changing from just 0.01 to 0.02 would take a couple days or more.

Yet, some hiring supervisors may ask about skills that others just take for granted.

If you barely nod hello when your partner gets home or he just grunts when you arrive home, it's a sure sign that you're taking each other for granted.

Now they are taking each other for granted, just going through the motions of life.