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

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

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

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

Drought, floods, and landslides have become commonplace.

We can, in fact, make it commonplace.

Such successive downward forecast revisions have become commonplace.

The imposition of arbitrary taxes is reportedly commonplace.

Beatings during arrest were said to be commonplace.

He lived in a neighbourhood where screams were commonplace.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

An independent Catalonia could be very different from today s Spain where economic crisis, opacity and patronage politics are often denounced to be 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.

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

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

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 these types of examples, today there are just a few of them, but I think in the next decade they will become commonplace.

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, and yes, even Twilight have continuously shared the same tale and taught similar lessons, which are now conventional and commonplace.

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.

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.

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.

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

Europeans tend to feel more positively about their governments than do Americans, for whom the failures and unpopularity of their federal, state, and local politicians are a commonplace.

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.

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

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

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

The serious violations of human rights in Haiti, including arbitrary arrest, torture, summary executions and disregard for fundamental freedoms, are commonplace today in the daily lives of the long suffering Haitian people.

A harrowing predilection for the uses of force had become commonplace, with an equal distaste for the alternative forms of influence.

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

Hostage taking and murder, particularly of town mayors and government officials in areas of, or close to, the conflict became commonplace.

A harrowing predilection for the uses of force had become commonplace, with an equal distaste for the alternative forms of influence.