| One aspect of the deconstructive turn is the realization that things that we take for granted as givens are in fact inventions. |
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| For investment purposes, what finds favour is the fact that a number of givens are known at the outset. |
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| They are not givens and there are large bodies of literature that are being overlooked. |
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| Modern academics argue there are no givens, all is a social construct, but we suspect they are wrong. |
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| It also posits that femininity and masculinity are socially constructed rather than biological givens, emphasizing the performativity of gender. |
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| Rather than accepting life and its givens at face value, he refers to his Pyrrhonism, or skepticism, about the ways of the world. |
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| There is no need to pay excessive deference to the political pieties and givens of the region. |
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| We take as givens the forces of gravity, the laws of nature, the ideas that an electron has a negative charge and the protons a positive charge. |
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| The right to privacy is one of a democracy's givens and the media expose police and bureaucrats who invade it. |
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| The ability to articulate and argue and the right to do so are not givens, but areas of considerable complexity and dissent. |
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| Rather than taking policies as givens, advocacy attempts to change policies. |
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| But the negotiators on both sides understand these givens, and they are more or less ready for them. |
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| Instead of hard data, ideological-that is, neo-liberal-assertions were made and accepted as givens. |
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| These givens, although well established by researchers, are ignored in teaching music. |
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| I find it useful to highlight these so that we are reminded that we cannot assume these as givens in any partnership. |
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| Just as shattering violence affects people, it affects whole peoples, busting up the basic assumptions and givens in a society that usually prevent thoroughgoing change. |
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| A lot of what I was saying seven, eight years ago, among the few who were saying it, are now almost givens in the discussion, so I feel good about that. |
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| The rigor of antilogy tends to transform all the elements of argumentation into comparable givens, subject to addition or subtraction, and thus interchangeable. |
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| For givens, a return to Harlan County is a return to everything he fought hard to get away from. |
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| After his divorce from givens, Tyson continued to see her from time to time. |
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| Contrary to certain appearances, the Turkmen government may thus relaunch the givens in Central Asia, where Russia nonetheless seems to have made an inevitable return these past several years. |
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| Now they unanimously welcome the no-fly zone, and pray it may extend to tactical support for their ragtag forces on the ground. The fast-spreading Arab spring has similarly upended many other givens in the region's politics. |
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| Economic growth and transport growth must not be taken as givens either, because as transport politicians we actually also need to consider whether it is also possible to cut some traffic out altogether. |
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| However, the particular forms which the process of globalisation takes on are not inevitable and predetermined givens but rather the result of institutionalised processes and negotiations. |
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| Because of fundamental attitudes that were simply givens. |
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| There are many givens in such projects, but we have taken the opportunity to rethink the organisation of the work and how we can run the expansion project most efficiently. |
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| The two unassailable givens that must be part of any full-day learning program are educators with child development knowledge and skills, and an effective parent engagement strategy. |
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| They talked about having a country where, regardless of skin colour, regardless of social status, and regardless of the size of the bank account, there are some absolute givens that we can appreciate. |
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| We must not doubt the honest intentions of the Puritans but rather the outcome of appeal to divine law or to the law of nature taken as givens of reason. |
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| This changes completely the givens, because if the Russian gas giant succeeded until now in preempting the greater part of Turkmen production, access to the new resources will certainly be the subject of heated bidding. |
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| When evaluating this math problem, don't forget to read the givens. |
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| Manager Don Givens waited up until 4am for the player to return to HQ, at which point he gave up and went to bed. |
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| According to Terry Givens, who helped design fitness courses for the United States Air Force Academy, as we age, our tissues decondition. |
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| Premultiplication and postmultiplication by a Givens matrix can be performed without computing a Givens matrix explicitly. |
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| It is through his attempt to get Givens to confess to his trickery that the narrator comes to realize the conceits he has constructed about himself. |
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| At Lumine, Shields had a bogey-free 68 to be tied for 12th place on 204, five shots behind joint leaders Daniel Givens and Matt Wallace. |
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| Givens and his staff of prosthetists provide specific guidance for their patients based on their needs. |
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| Givens says that getting your ZIP code can help merchants obtain your address, phone number, and a host of other identifiers as well. |
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