| There is no need to pay excessive deference to the political pieties and givens of the region. |
| For investment purposes, what finds favour is the fact that a number of givens are known at the outset. |
| They are not givens and there are large bodies of literature that are being overlooked. |
| Rather than accepting life and its givens at face value, he refers to his Pyrrhonism, or skepticism, about the ways of the world. |
| One aspect of the deconstructive turn is the realization that things that we take for granted as givens are in fact inventions. |
| It also posits that femininity and masculinity are socially constructed rather than biological givens, emphasizing the performativity of gender. |
