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

The imposition of arbitrary taxes is reportedly commonplace.

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

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

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

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

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

Drought, floods, and landslides have become commonplace.

We can, in fact, make it commonplace.

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

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.

Such successive downward forecast revisions have become commonplace.

Beatings during arrest were said to be commonplace.

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

He lived in a neighbourhood where screams were commonplace.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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).

71. The Special Rapporteur deplores the tendency to use the current insecurity in Rwanda as a pretext for suggesting that genocide is commonplace and justifying inaction.

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.

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

So I am convinced that if we can unlock the technologies that are commonplace in the richer world to be able to transform foods.

So I am convinced that if we can unlock the technologies that are commonplace in the richer world to be able to transform foods.

Now you need to make that gap as big as possible, because there is this commonplace of the status quo, and you need to contrast that with the loftiness of your idea.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

The economists commonplace that a monetary union demands a fiscal union is only part of a much deeper truth about debt and obligation debt is rarely sustainable if there is not some sense of communal or collective responsibility.

Nationalist statements that would have been confined to the extremist newspaper Den in the early 1990 s are now considered normal, centrist, even commonplace.

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

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.

Inside the European Union, the ugly term PIGS (Portugal, Italy Ireland, Greece, Spain) is now a commonplace, denoting countries that have endangered the euro s stability and are forcing northern Europeans into costly bailouts.