Torture appears to be a common practice in order to secure confessions.

It is an increasingly common practice as the tools and expertise grows in this area.

Sea disposal of solid wastes is still a common practice for small and medium sized urban centres

Bird obtained his degree by submitting testimonials from qualified colleagues, which was common practice at the time.

The mere reference to the English concept of damages for detention in an award clearly based on German law which was expressly chosen by the parties to govern the merits of the dispute did not constitute the application of a different law.

Thunderstorms are very common from May to September and can occasionally be quite heavy.

The exercise of rights needed to be balanced and proportional.

That was common practice in the industry, and those who held patents on airplanes were defending them fiercely and suing competitors left and right.

This approach became common practice later, e.g., Pascal or Java, but the Richards BCPL compiler was the first to define a virtual machine for this purpose.

What Obama was doing was a common enough practice in the United States (though one might expect better from an orator of his ability) it was not so in India, where such a technique is, indeed, regarded as reprehensible.

This lawless legality is all too common in a country where 85 of people live in abject poverty.

There is also the question of consistency. One cannot credibly thump the table about human rights in one country, but keep one s opinions to oneself in another an all too common occurrence when, say, a trade deal might suffer.

Prior to her husband's conviction it had been rumored that she would be a candidate for the U.S. Senate, or would take a position in the administration of President Bill Clinton.

Besides, there is a relatively popular practice in Viet Nam that among people in rural areas or ethnic people, when their daughters get married, in most of the cases, daughters cannot inherit properties of their parents.

This should not be a problem to outsource payroll services is a common practice in the private sector, more sensitive to confidentiality issues than the United Nations system where salary scales are public.

were common during his matches.

The donor's race or ethnic background is sometimes important since certain blood types, especially rare ones, are more common in certain ethnic groups.

When the state is incapable of protecting its own citizens, it loses its monopoly on violence.

He also initiated the now common practice of measuring and comparing political and economic freedom across countries, helping to shape opinion in countries that are viewed as limiting freedom.

Such unions are common in Anglo Saxon countries.

In Mindanao, bakwit is a popular word.

These arrangements are common in France and in Spain.

In the developed world it is very uncommon.

Experts suggested the use of the concept of promising practices , since many factors had an impact on the quality or effectiveness of a particular practice and the parameters for evaluating a particular practice were seldom spelled out clearly.

Several other conditions are common in children with autism.

Backlit screens were not common in 1990.

As a matter of principle they should qualify and there is a not inconsiderable quantity of State practice favourable to the principle of survival.

It is all the more cynical as the country being accused internationally of practising torture is neither Venezuela nor Cuba, but precisely the United States, which has made that degrading treatment a common practice in Afghanistan, Iraq and the illegally occupied naval base at Guantanamo.

Such successive downward forecast revisions have become commonplace.

And similar episodes have been common in many other countries.

Infection and inflammation of the gingiva is common with this condition.

As a consequence of these excesses, obesity was common among upper classes.

Accusations and counter accusations are rife and fuel a strongly polarized political debate.

The technique involves the daily practice of sessions that last around 15 minutes, usually in the morning, at lunch time, and in the evening.

Regulatory agencies are supposed to be autonomous from the executive branch of government, but in many countries have often not been able to exercise a great degree of autonomy.

She represents the civic values that have been common to many middle Israelis ever since Theodore Herzl first put them in writing the Jewish state must be modern and democratic to the core.

A pattern of diagonal slashes along the side is a common feature.

Examples of such communication are common in biological and chemical systems.

The most common grain milk is rice milk, while the most common plant milk is soy milk.

Concerning the situation of women and children, he felt that the first stage involved the adoption of a law prohibiting the practice of giving young girls as payment of blood money, as promised by President Karzai.

Most species have very small geographical ranges and are uncommon locally.

Heart failure is a common, costly, and potentially fatal condition.

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

This is strangely common, occurring in 60 80 of amputees.

On the contrary, they were a very common feature of everyday life.