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Example sentences for: givens

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Tyson's former wife, actress Robin Givens, said point-blank in the same joint interview, "Mike is a manic-depressive."
In the case of actress Robin Givens, Mike Tyson's ex, her wedding day actually was the only day of her marriage to Yugoslavian tennis player Svetozar Marinkovic, according to last week's Globe . At a party after the ceremony she reportedly announced, "Svetozar is the man of my dreams and I plan to spend the rest of my life with him."
Since Givens did not pass away during the night, her prediction was not to be.
But the author's exculpatory coup de grâce is Tyson's claim that a psychiatric illness caused him to do things to Robin Givens (his former wife) that "he would normally never do."
They are often passive, accepting what are viewed as givens, including that efforts to identify and fix glaring vulnerabilities to dangerous threats would be too costly, too controversial, or too disruptive.