givens

Regular readers of this blog will know that there are one or two 'givens' - but I do not think it is a straightforward issue.

Asking for trouble! Glyn Davies 2008

The way the filmmakers present it, they're the victims of neglectful parenting and soulless materialism, where credit cards and expensive cars are God-entitled givens, and love and compassion are nothing more than commodities to be brokered off and embraced by the middle and lower classes -- the suckers of the world.

Epinions Recent Content for Home 2008

For too many journalists, consultants, and policy makers, these ideas are "givens," things that everybody knows... which also happen to be totally wrong.

Richard (RJ) Eskow: Five Things Everybody Knows About Deficits... That Are Completely Untrue RJ 2011

For too many journalists, consultants, and policy makers, these ideas are "givens," things that everybody knows... which also happen to be totally wrong.

Richard (RJ) Eskow: Five Things Everybody Knows About Deficits... That Are Completely Untrue RJ 2011

We are questioning the "givens" be it mainstream media, or the ways things have always operated.

Vivian Norris de Montaigu: Home for the Holidays: Optimism for the US in 2010! 2009

There are a few other 'givens' like this that seem somewhat dubious when you think about facts, rather than simple intellectual constructs of reality -- the 'tragedy of the commons' being another prime example.

A Thought To Ponder Patrick Vessey 2008

The 'givens' are that I cannot see any point in proposing any 'rowing back' on devolution.

Asking for trouble! Glyn Davies 2008

However, if they are "givens" or not, I still don't see why it is hypocritical for Dafydd to want the support of the party before taking any seat at the house of Lords?

So its Wigley for the Lords. Glyn Davies 2007

I personally dont think the conditions are "givens" Glyn and it is right for Wigley to want to see them in place.

So its Wigley for the Lords. Glyn Davies 2007

Two "givens" are that a good 4th Generation fighter costs about $60 million and yet can't even come close to the F-35 as a survivable attack aircraft; furthermore a new F-111 equivalent will itself cost at least $60 million and still be only a easily-detected attack plane and not a fighter plane.

"US Developing Separate JSF for Foreign Partners" 2007