It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

We can, in fact, make it commonplace.

The imposition of arbitrary taxes is reportedly commonplace.

It was not until the mid 1980s that these operations became commonplace.

Jogging, which is commonplace, and widely accepted as good for you, is solemn.

But it is a commonplace that, particularly in the world of politics, the formulation of problems is the domain of dialogue.

That's because it is hard for most people to recognize seriousness, which is rare, but more comfortable to endorse solemnity, which is commonplace.

That's because it is hard for most people to recognize seriousness, which is rare, but more comfortable to endorse solemnity, which is commonplace.

Drought, floods, and landslides have become commonplace.

But at one time, it was fairly commonplace to think of yourself as a maker.

Such successive downward forecast revisions have become commonplace.

Beatings during arrest were said to be commonplace.

That is particularly the case in the Congo and in the Sudan. Sexual violence is becoming commonplace.

He lived in a neighbourhood where screams were commonplace.

And that was really critical. The mesh network, it'll become commonplace.

And it was commonplace in my household to walk and see my parents shooting up drugs in my kitchen.

Anti dumping action against imports from China, Vietnam, and other Asian exporters is already commonplace in developing countries.

If Lebanon were an almost unique case in the past, given the pluralistic features of its society, it is no longer so today. The Lebanese experience has become commonplace, as we have come to witness through the now commonplace demographic movement of populations and the lowering of geopolitical barriers.

Murder, assault, armed robbery have been commonplace in the last three years.

The use of commercially available and improvised explosives by Al Qaida and its associates is commonplace (see box 5).

You just need to step outside, pay attention to what's so commonplace, so everyday, so mundane that everybody else misses it.

Trafficking within countries had become commonplace, challenging the usual definition of the phenomenon.

In economies where economic and financial crimes are socially accepted as commonplace, the confidence of legitimate investors is severely diminished.

The commonplace view is that politics is better handled by men, whilst many women feel that their feminine traits hinder their political ambitions.

My father was a (genuine) rocket scientist, and I figured that just as airplanes had become commonplace over the course of his life, space travel would become commonplace over the course of mine.

CAMBRIDGE In an environment of mobile phones, computers, and Web sites such as MySpace, Facebook, and LinkedIn, it is commonplace to say that we live in a networked world.

It's just that their beauty is missed because they're so omnipresent, so, I don't know, commonplace, that people don't notice them.

That solution is becoming pretty commonplace, from the Aliyevs of Azerbaijan to the Kims of North Korea to the Assads in Syria.

However, scanner checks are not yet commonplace at all border customs offices, as the equipment is not available at all the offices.

Such protests against public agencies, employers, and developers are now commonplace (though not always authorized).

We have been involved in Afghanistan for almost 11 years now, and it has become commonplace to see images of the war back here.

The phrase sustainable development is commonplace, but economic commentators offer no guidance on how we are to judge whether a nation s economic development is, indeed, sustainable.

That by itself could make solutions that now seem out of reach commonplace in the future.

Some individuals interviewed informed the team that intimidation and harassment by ex combatants were commonplace occurrences.

Our visitor bore every mark of being an average commonplace British tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow.

Now, to close, we heard a couple of days ago about the value of making individual heroism so commonplace that it becomes banal or routine.

Alas, such commonplace language also makes wars harder to avoid, harder to end, and arguably more deadly.

Kuru was transmitted through cannibalistic rituals that were commonplace in Papua New Guinea until the 1950 s.

It did not herald a new era of international relations in which terrorists with a global agenda prevailed, or in which such spectacular terrorist attacks became commonplace.

Since the late 70's most if not all garages are attached, and throughout the 80's it became more common to have an access door into the home from the garage where design permitted, whereas it is commonplace now.

Despite the pictures we are shown daily in the news, wars between developed countries are no longer commonplace.

For both the seller and the passenger, this has become such commonplace that one hardly notices one another.

This was an innovative method for the time before journalism that relied on first hand reports was commonplace.

Sovereign obligations, such as bonds, are commonplace in the capital markets, and demonstrate strong investor demand and confidence.

What we consider commonplace today such as modern communication and transportation, would have been unimaginable in ancient times.