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.

In the future, regular epigenetic health check ups could become standard practice.

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.

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.

Now, with her children grown, she has gone off to Tibet for months to realize her dream of becoming a practitioner of Tibetan medicine.

When the exercise of hard power undercuts soft power, leadership becomes more difficult as President Bush found out after the invasion of Iraq.

Hosting sporting events could be beneficial if it encourages local citizens to take up sports and if they are given access to the facilities built for the events.

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.

Several other conditions are common in children with autism.

Backlit screens were not common in 1990.

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.

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.

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.

The practice of adopting country resolutions has proven to be ineffective.

A large number of painful, dangerous conditions are more likely if you are overweight, under exercised, a big drinker, lonely, or stressed.

The appearance of a wicked wife in Chinese public scandals is a common phenomenon.

The other class involves what are known as common, low penetrance variants.

Relativism, cafeteria Catholicism, and the like are ubiquitous.

Subsidies are common, but prices are not fixed.

Protests are common, but one collective has made theirs uniquely Andalusian.

Indeed, abuses such as this one are common on both societal and governmental levels.

Images of dragonflies are common in Art Nouveau, especially in jewellery designs.