taken-for-granted

A primary job of teachers and scholars and journalists, and a responsibility of all engaged citizens, is to challenge orthodoxy, dogma, and mindless complacency, to be skeptical of all authoritative claims, to interrogate and trouble the given and the taken-for-granted.

Doublespeak at the University of Wyoming 2010

It's especially lovely to spend longer than a week with them: it makes me realise how much I have missed the humdrum, taken-for-granted rhythm of always being together; all that companionably empty, occasionally boring, time feels luxurious now.

Diary of a separation 2011

The typical American I see in an office building or shopping mall, stout or slim, gives off countless unconscious signs — hair, skin, teeth, height — of having grown up in a society of taken-for-granted sanitation, vaccination, ample protein, and overall public health.

How America Can Rise Again 2010

A primary job of teachers and scholars and journalists, and a responsibility of all engaged citizens, is to challenge orthodoxy, dogma, and mindless complacency, to be skeptical of all authoritative claims, to interrogate and trouble the given and the taken-for-granted.

April « 2010 « Bill Ayers 2010

They are the often the taken-for-granted backbone of critical life-supporting products and services in communities.

Aaron Hurst: Can Pro Bono Resources Help Us Prepare for the Next Disaster? Aaron Hurst 2011

Their job is a taken-for-granted, but it requires long hours and dedication to keep systems operating and secure -- and folks, security breaches cost money and cause downtime.

Offsite Access To NOMAD Is About To Change (Or is it?) - NASA Watch 2009

After learning the most basic of functions – walking up stairs, climbing into a car and other taken-for-granted "basics" not always taught in the dank, cruel world in which they lived under Vick's care – they were slowly introduced into what would become their "normal" life at the sanctuary.

As Athlete Makes Comeback, Recovery For Vick's Dogs Is Slow And Painful AP/The Huffington Post 2011

After learning the most basic of functions – walking up stairs, climbing into a car and other taken-for-granted "basics" not always taught in the dank, cruel world in which they lived under Vick's care – they were slowly introduced into what would become their "normal" life at the sanctuary.

As Athlete Makes Comeback, Recovery For Vick's Dogs Is Slow And Painful AP/The Huffington Post 2011

After learning the most basic of functions – walking up stairs, climbing into a car and other taken-for-granted "basics" not always taught in the dank, cruel world in which they lived under Vick's care – they were slowly introduced into what would become their "normal" life at the sanctuary.

As Athlete Makes Comeback, Recovery For Vick's Dogs Is Slow And Painful AP/The Huffington Post 2011

They are the often the taken-for-granted backbone of critical life-supporting products and services in communities.

Aaron Hurst: Can Pro Bono Resources Help Us Prepare for the Next Disaster? Aaron Hurst 2011