Independent chocolatiers are commonplace, selling exquisite handmade chocolates made from the finest of ingredients. |
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However, in the context of commonplace and mind-numbing attacks on communism, his novel is freshly revisionist. |
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Hot-off-the-printer news from home may soon become as commonplace as minibars at hotels around the world. |
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Stocks were a commonplace feature of plantation discipline, but were used only once by the St. Andrew slave court. |
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Hip young Indians sipping tequilas and strutting their designer gear in trendy bars and discos are now commonplace. |
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While there is little doubt that English is the preferred language in this area, bilingualism is also commonplace. |
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Pulling and dragging was too commonplace, passes were misdirected and inaccuracy reared its head frequently. |
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Wall street traders using biometrics or even quasi biometrics is not commonplace. |
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It was a commonplace of Roman food writing to despise complicated dishes designed for show rather than for taste. |
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Headlines trumpeting federal and state fiscal problems are commonplace across the nation. |
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The seemingly forward question sounded very trite and commonplace in the blunt honest tone she used. |
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Precise land navigation in any weather by day or night will be as commonplace as the exact time. |
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Getting it wrong is commonplace in the news biz today, both print and electronic. |
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After 1900, iced tea became commonplace in cookbooks, and black tea began replacing green as the preferred tea for serving cold. |
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Angry scenes and ugly fracas are commonplace as people scramble for the few available taxis. |
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In contrast, in my brief exposure to the British upper classes I've found anti-Semitism commonplace and frequently unblushing. |
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Depicting underpopulated picturesque rustic scenes had become commonplace by the 17th century. |
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In an industry in which public slanging matches are commonplace, such comments would not merit much attention. |
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Strictly speaking, it means commonplace, undistinguished, but has come to mean pertaining to the people. |
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It is a criminological commonplace that it is counter-productive to pass unenforceable laws because this breeds general contempt for the law. |
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The novel ends by giving this commonplace message an unexpected and successful twist. |
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Debilitating injures were commonplace in work areas with slippery floors and stairways, and heavy unguarded machinery. |
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Strip malls are commonplace on the outskirts of boomburb and decaying town alike. |
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Attacks on unoffending furniture, equipment, or surroundings are so commonplace as to be hardly worth mentioning. |
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As presented, while these are called diaries, they are often more in the nature of a commonplace book. |
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Brain surgery to remove a tumour or to alleviate the symptoms of neurological diseases, like Parkinson's, it's fairly commonplace today. |
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Zoning has now become commonplace and it is the model that was used when planning new towns and city centres. |
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The commonplace and venial sins block scrutiny of the bizarre and mortal ones. |
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Fiddled expenses, lavish trips and bungled paperwork had become commonplace at the Paris headquarters, a national audit report concluded. |
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It's a commonplace that actors are dumb bunnies when they start talking about politics. |
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Somewhere in the middle of raising children and spending years together, life can become habitual and nagging, commonplace. |
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Drinking is commonplace in our culture, so you shouldn't find it hard to camouflage the limits of your infatuation. |
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The practice is so commonplace that Arthur almost accepts it as an occupational hazard. |
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It looked a bit offbeat, away from the commonplace, conventional boutiques where the normal celebrities would be found. |
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They were not acted to the accompaniment of mere commonplace gestures like a play, nor danced in imitative caprioles like a ballet. |
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They are commonplace, inanimate, drab, rough, omnipresent, thoroughly boring and often a nuisance. |
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Being omniscient, I know such activity is more or less commonplace, but I trust that you will do what is right. |
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Costs are still a few orders of magnitude too high for the sequencing of one's own genome to become commonplace. |
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He advocated that literature should record the writer's affectionate response to ordinary phenomena and commonplace happenings. |
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What happened to me was not ordinary and average and commonplace and I reject any word that makes it appear so. |
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Unfortunately, by ordinary consciousness I do not mean the ordinary consciousness of commonplace minds. |
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In their place, Echenoz proposes a rhetoric of platitude, insisting upon the commonplace, the dull, the ordinary. |
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Democracy under the Republic was decaying to the point at which political assassination was a commonplace. |
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Thus it is a commonplace to suggest that people will always overpopulate, regardless of the incentives in place. |
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Eventually, burning sulfur candles became commonplace for people in attempts to repel mosquitoes, gnats and other nuisance flying insects. |
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A system that has brought unimagined prosperity cannot survive if such betrayals become commonplace. |
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Thanks to television, swearing and coarseness have become far more commonplace in our lives. |
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But facelifts and plastic surgery for pets are commonplace in the United States, where the pampering of pooches has become big business. |
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Children's chairs are commonplace now, but the concept had never even been imagined in Newcastle. |
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Robin Red-breast was just another of these coinages, used since about 1450 to name a commonplace bird. |
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And before the vote it had been a commonplace to say that it was the most important election of our lifetimes. |
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Dixon is the kind of ordinary hero who had become a commonplace of Ealing films during the war period. |
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With all these commonplace conventions, what is it that makes the file outstanding? |
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The survey showed committees were far more commonplace where trade unions had representation. |
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Using a computer is becoming more commonplace and sometimes is an absolute necessity for your child to complete his homework assignments. |
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He insists that what he is doing is to configure the commonplace issues of ordinary life. |
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This is Realism at its most powerful, turning a commonplace event into an historical one. |
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A vandalised car, all but ignored by passers-by, reflects how commonplace minor crime has become in small towns. |
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Human rights violations are not some sort of other worldly event, they are sometimes very commonplace. |
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It would only be a matter of time before electronic devices became commonplace objects in the classroom. |
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The most commonplace events are also opportunities, life-determining choices made or not made. |
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It is also, we must never forget, made from joy and the celebration of simple and ordinary and commonplace things and events. |
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The commonplace pessimistic argument points out that since low interest rates have been good for the economy, higher interest rates will be bad. |
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It had been fed to us for a long time, and therefore, we looked at it as a tedious and commonplace state of things. |
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Now 60 years on, the process has been repeated, but reversed, as the commonplace colour of modern films returns to nostalgic black and white. |
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After a few more exceedingly commonplace remarks of the same character, she gave me to write down a list of drugs that were to be taken. |
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If you think buffets are commonplace and boring, just try the beverage buffet. |
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He is never dull and even his more commonplace chapters are enlivened with fascinating detail or asides. |
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So much more interesting than the flat, filmed performances with irritating cutting that are now commonplace. |
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Peace would be all too commonplace and boring, not to mention that it couldn't possibly involve the kind of firepower you're accustomed to. |
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The point is only driven home by seeing something that has become a commonplace represented as something surprising. |
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Whatever you are looking for we have it in the collection, from the endangered to the commonplace. |
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His poetry and fiction celebrates the ordinary and commonplace, striving for a transformation that might well be magical. |
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It is a commonplace in the West that governments should be as democratic as possible. |
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Tales of the commonplace, stories about the small things that make up our daily existence, can be fascinating. |
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So instead politicians almost uniformly retreat to the safety of the platitude and commonplace. |
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It has become a commonplace to say of biographies of Plath that they take sides. |
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It's a journal, a commonplace book, a collection of poetry and in some ways a conduct book. |
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We learn that a youthful George Washington, in a fit of self-improvement, began keeping a commonplace book. |
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It has become a commonplace that numbers are in general poorly dealt with by the mass media. |
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Arabic influences are strong, especially along the coast where the fez and turban are commonplace. |
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Because of the inhumane nature of slavery, slave revolts became commonplace in Jamaica. |
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The former is commonplace and condemnable, while the latter is true charity and reflects character. |
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Since the smoking ban has been introduced the sight of people congregating around the entrance to a licensed premises has become commonplace. |
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I've imparted to his nature this bit of ill-gotten reliance on commonplace conventionality, and I thus entreat him to explain his motives. |
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The birth was met with world-wide astonishment at the time, but today in-vitro fertilization has become relatively commonplace. |
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A commonplace material designed to bring order to a garden was poetically transformed to explore the activity of ordering in a gallery. |
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He says the vandalism is so commonplace costs for groups to use the community hall are set to help cover the cost of repairs. |
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Frequent trips to the loo are commonplace, along with losing the power of speech. |
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Talk of power struggles between director and star have been commonplace since movies began. |
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Once considered an anomaly, multichannel mic preamps are becoming more commonplace. |
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Slurs, prejudice, and institutionalized discrimination were commonplace back then. |
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It is a sad fact that these deaths are now so commonplace that they rarely make the news. |
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Bleeding superstars, inebriated goalies and headhunting defensemen were commonplace. |
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His bible-infused speeches have become as commonplace as his chimp-like pucker. |
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If consultancy fees that substantially add to a pundit's income are going to become commonplace we need a new set of habits. |
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Death during childbirth was commonplace and infant mortality devastatingly high. |
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He frequently used such commonplace devices as rhetorical questions and other characteristic elements of diatribes. |
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It grossed me out at first, but it was commonplace in some cultures, especially tribal ones. |
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Nowadays in an even more competitive world, it would be economically disastrous for strikes to become commonplace. |
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And when the new millennium arrived, it brought not a new age but a dispiritingly commonplace popping of a bubble of earthly greed. |
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Of course, such synergistic bilge is commonplace, as is the tendency to dummy up on any topic that the parent company might want stifled. |
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While commonplace wisdom spurns escapism, practical experience sometimes calls for it. |
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Defeats have become almost commonplace, the latest of which was a 5-1 drubbing against Bristol City on Tuesday night. |
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Random acts of violence are commonplace, as are crowds of drunken youths egging on our two brave protagonists. |
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Analogous to the phenomenon of simultaneous contrast, the colors of paint call attention to the colors of commonplace things. |
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This doesn't ensure that they have free-range conditions,, but much commonplace cruelty has been eliminated. |
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In other words, precautionary killings to prohibit the spread of infection are becoming commonplace. |
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Marriage was clearly not undertaken unadvisedly or wantonly, and celibacy was commonplace. |
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Still, such practices in academe help legitimate the even more extreme forms now commonplace in corporate America. |
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These early Acadians boasted names now commonplace in Nova Scotia, such as Blanchard, Comeau, LeBlanc, Belliveau, and Pettipas. |
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It is a critical commonplace to note sharp cultural differences between Elizabethan and Jacobean England. |
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The privatization of state-owned companies has become a matter of commonplace racketeering. |
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Rafts of weed can be commonplace drifting downstream, and they come to rest in many a slack, eddy or on any partly submerged structure. |
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Does this mean that a story about a female adulterer is noteworthy because male adultery is commonplace? |
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While acknowledging he did not tell the whole truth, he insisted that white lies are commonplace in politics. |
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As for money, credit cards are widely accepted in most countries and cash machines are increasingly commonplace. |
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This kind of arrogant refusal to engage with reasoned challenge is sadly commonplace. |
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Nowadays, major disclosures of the soon-to-be recipients of knighthoods and peerages are commonplace. |
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By the 1870, ferns were so commonplace that they were no longer considered a symbol of refined taste. |
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Unfortunately incidents like this one last month are commonplace and reflect badly on all involved in providing a train service. |
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In the days before phones were commonplace, they relayed many messages and telegrams from family members overseas. |
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It is a commonplace to associate the low view of the episcopate not only with latitudinarians, but also with nineteenth-century evangelicals. |
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The then commonplace conclusion was that taxes on retail sales would be passed on to consumers. |
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Death, from hunger, cold, and reduced resistance to illnesses, none of which could be treated, was commonplace in Leningrad. |
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After all, Martin reasoned, such retaliation is a commonplace of baseball, with brushback rhubarbs happening almost weekly every season. |
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Spyware is rife and virus infection commonplace yet many home users reckon they are safe from online threats. |
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There is no substance in the allegation that unlawful access of phone lines is rife or commonplace. |
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Walls unexpectedly meet at acute and obtuse angles rather than commonplace right angles. |
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Writers like the Romantics, who found mystery in the commonplace and saw the universal in each individual's experience, remind us to hope. |
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He has, nonetheless, the full armature of liberal-left prejudices which have become commonplace in arts faculties these days. |
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It is commonplace to see new MBAs hired into rotational management programmes designed to groom future leaders. |
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He said that in any home, rows and arguments were commonplace but there was a line that should not be crossed. |
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As is commonplace in many retailing environments, Wal-Mart and other mass-market discounters sell some products as loss-leaders. |
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In regard to its meanings, it indicates lowness, coarseness, or commonplace mentality. |
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Pulsars and quasars may turn out to be commonplace in comparison to the exotic astrophysical events that gravity wave astronomy reveals. |
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Many people may feel that formal candles, such as tapers, are commonplace necessities for a sophisticated dinner party. |
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Tangles were commonplace, mainly due to the fact that my rigs were shotted up wrong. |
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It's a scary movie that expertly plays on some traditional and commonplace fears. |
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As is commonplace in this region of the county the surroundings are the main attraction with scenic views and a quiet country lifestyle on offer. |
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In truth, it's commonplace for harried, in-shop work schedulers or field supervisors to permit maintenance work to lapse. |
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For any normal person, going to small food mart near campus was a simple, commonplace thing. |
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Second screening for news is becoming commonplace, with users often using devices in tandem. |
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It was as alien to the Greeks as it was commonplace to the mechanists that one should seek to interfere with nature. |
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You must not underrate the difficulties of my undertaking, or imagine that a mere commonplace assassination would meet the case. |
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Let's look at the reversing warning beepers that are commonplace these days. |
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Free e-mail services are commonplace on the Internet while newsgroups and message postings are likewise available at no cost. |
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However, the commonplace judgement of physicists is that microphysical processes are causal and temporally asymmetric in character. |
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It is a commonplace of our patristic tradition that the image of God is only one and the image of God is his only-begotten Son, our Christological archetype. |
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Structures of unbaked earth were quite commonplace in the past, but Steve's extension is believed to be the first clom house built in Wales for 150 years. |
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Even if it did happen such incidents are commonplace on the training fields of the land, a storm in a teacup quickly sorted and set aside by practical managers. |
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First, keep in mind that the enemies of probiotics include such commonplace substances as antibiotics, birth control pills, aspirin, alcohol and stress. |
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In too many places now, confit of duck approaches the commonplace. |
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Registration systems are commonplace on chat sites and provide chatters with a certain degree of confidence that the people they are talking to are who they say they are. |
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This practice of self-restraint, called jishuku in Japanese, has become quite commonplace here in recent days. |
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In their splendid robes and richly ornamented yataghans, the gentlemen of the party lent unusual picturesqueness to the commonplace surroundings of a railway platform. |
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While the strange story was a once in a lifetime scandal, the media circus it spawned has become commonplace. |
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The fact of the matter is that misogyny and objectification are commonplace in the entertainment industry. |
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There can be nothing commonplace about the Leonian way of doing things! |
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It is a trend that has been noted in the world of high fashion for several years, where sexually explicit images of supermodels have become commonplace. |
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Dirty cuffs and collars and destroyed shirt fronts were commonplace then. |
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His childlike delight in God's works and his susceptivity to the poetry of the natural world took whatever he said out of commonplace and stamped it with fresh beauty. |
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The miniature portrait, either worn as part of a parure, hung from a ribbon, or mounted on a pearl bracelet, was a commonplace of mid-eighteenth-century female portraiture. |
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It is now commonplace to drive for hundreds of miles without seeing a police patrol car, and I believe that that is a very bad thing for road safety. |
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Using an x-acto knife or nail clippers for obtaining serviceable counters has become so commonplace that these tools have become a necessity for every gamer. |
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Insults to public intelligence and rank stupidity became commonplace. |
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His film makes good use of the cultural disjunctures that are commonplace now in an urban setting, like the rank pollution of the otherwise picturesque Suzhou River itself. |
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Parody-accusation is all well and good, but the gambit is becoming so commonplace I fear for the very future of vitriolic anti-feminist commentary. |
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People wrote down particular phrases or quotations in commonplace books. |
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The stunning tropical paradise has been transformed into a brutal totalitarian dictatorship where violations of fundamental human rights are commonplace. |
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This is a commonplace of life in the poorest neighbourhood in Vancouver. |
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The proliferation of communication technology now commonplace on remote expeditions has taken Everest voyeurism to new heights. |
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He or she was a committed dweller of libraries, a writer in margins, and a keeper of commonplace books, often with personalized cross-referencing systems. |
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If you come across a passage you like, copy it out into a commonplace book. |
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Petty crimes, such as vandalism and shoplifting, are also commonplace. |
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Cobbling together free childcare or eldercare provided by relatives is commonplace because free is all they can afford. |
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The talent of the comic is to make commonplace events remarkable. |
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Forced marriage is commonplace, and was only made a crime in June of this year. |
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Delayed shipments, misplaced orders and lost products were commonplace. |
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Our understanding of astronomy has shown us that cometary and asteroidal impacts are relatively commonplace over timescales of hundreds of millions of years. |
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Camera phones, nanny cams, and even satellite photos are commonplace. |
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Gymnastics is, like figure skating, a highly televisual sport where appeals are commonplace and rumours abound about the judging, and it is now under pressure to reform. |
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Like it or not, sponsorship deals between companies and the athletic teams are very commonplace not only in the world of pro sports but at SFU as well. |
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It had been a historical commonplace to view the long interval between Archimedes and Galileo as a period of unrelieved ignorance and superstition. |
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As the time wore on, funambulism became almost commonplace, performers tried to outdo one another by narrowing the rope and increasing their speed. |
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This approach in Chinese cinema, however, was entirely absent from the films screened in Sydney, which were bland and artistically commonplace works. |
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Yet measles, malnutrition and diarrhoea remain tediously commonplace causes of death in all too many parts of it in the first years of the twenty-first century. |
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Insulated from ruin, networked into success, failing upward and retiring in splendor are commonplace. |
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It is commonplace now to remark on the revenge exacted at Versailles. |
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In ancient Egypt, charismatic prophecy apparently was not commonplace, if it occurred at all, though institutional prophecy was of the greatest importance. |
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And as bingeing becomes possible and commonplace, it's only natural that shows should start to take it into account. |
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Traffic gridlock is commonplace, air pollution levels are soaring and, most alarmingly, the thirst for water means the mighty Colorado River is increasingly running dry. |
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By 2002, Googling was so commonplace that it was mentioned in an episode of buffy the Vampire Slayer. |
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These types of self-congratulatory remarks are commonplace and formulaic. |
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One is an ethical commonplace, that slavery is intrinsically barbaric, regardless of the particular identification of the slaveholders and the enslaved. |
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In his eyes, acting was a commonplace skill, and the whole admiring East Coast establishment was populated by phonies. |
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It sometimes reads like the most self-indulgent and maundering commonplace book, pregnant with ideas and jottings, their author unwilling or unable to develop them cogently. |
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The latter, a commonplace in the West, is a new concept for the Japanese. |
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Many suing chaplains claim cover-ups of such crimes are commonplace. |
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It used to be a commonplace that activities aimed at uncovering truth and knowledge set about the relatively simple tasks of making observations and recording results. |
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Long traffic queues are already commonplace on both the southbound carriageway in Fife during the morning rush period and at South Queensferry in the evenings. |
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Though mistrust of the state and a desire for cheap and limited government is a commonplace in the British political tradition, formal anarchism has received little support. |
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Spin rooms have become commonplace after debates and major speeches. |
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And they've banned men from various commonplace but loathsome and corrupting practices. |
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It is a commonplace in Germany that elections are decided by the middle. |
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As binning and storing wine became commonplace during the course of the 18th century, the wine bottle evolved into the cylindrical shape we know today. |
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No test of common humanity is quite so commonplace or so trying as public transport. |
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He also said similar problems are commonplace at schools and many of his friends do not feel safe wearing baggy clothing or t-shirts bearing band logos. |
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Armed guards sought to protect King after that, and for a time guns were commonplace in his parsonage. |
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Diet, nutrition and sports science is commonplace at most clubs now and a British culture that revelled in too much of everything now looks to be a thing of the past. |
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Blogs, for example, are all too similar to commonplace books, as are Tweets, Facebook statuses, and Tumblr posts. |
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This project is producing a database guide to about 400 manuscript miscellanies and commonplace books by British women from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. |
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The tautological blame always comes back to the claim that frivolous or even fraudulent lawsuits are commonplace. |
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It is a commonplace observation that Hitchcock often liked to launch scenes by framing a frame, more or less explicitly alluding to the proscenium arch of classical theatre. |
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Gels are commonplace from lime Jell-o to invigorating minty shower gels. |
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Back then, the goofing on each other was as commonplace as the losing. |
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Although honorific epithets were commonplace for the Seleucids and Ptolemies, the nicknames of all other members of the Antigonid family were either uncertain or insulting. |
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As there was no punishment for continuing to sell cotton cloth, smuggling of the popular material became commonplace. |
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The use of the moldboard plow became commonplace in the mid-1800s and led to the widespread planting of maize in the United States. |
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Today, bikinis are commonplace for holidays at home and abroad, weather permitting, of course. |
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Now it is commonplace to include plants in our gardens, such as witch hazels and mahonias, which do their thing in winter. |
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But now it is commonplace to include plants in our gardens, such as witchhazels and mahonias, which do their thing in deep midwinter. |
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It is a commonplace that we only use a small part of our brain's capacity. |
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Shooting stars, meteors, and bizarre occurrences were commonplace. Tonight, however, was a 10.0 on my weird shit-o-meter. |
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However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence. |
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Whatever, in my reading, occurs concerning this our fellow creature, I do never fail to set it down by way of commonplace. |
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But this descriptive commonplace is not sufficient to account for the sort of comportability-predicated integrity we have been talking about. |
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Financially, the two New York teams have not asked for the sort of free ride at taxpayer expense that has been commonplace elsewhere. |
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Gazumping and sealed bids are becoming commonplace as relatively ordinary properties fetch a premium. |
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Washboards went the way of the dinosaurs when washing machines became commonplace. |
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Official cruelty, supporting extortion and corruption, may also have become more commonplace. |
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Popular revolts were commonplace, triggered by the denial of numerous freedoms. |
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Norrell, which first takes place in Norrell's library, contrasts the gnosis that takes flight with commonplace knowledge provided by scholarship. |
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After the Saab GT 750 was introduced at the New York Motor Show in 1958 with safety belts fitted as standard, the practice became commonplace. |
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In the early decades of the church charismatic or ecstatic phenomena were commonplace. |
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However they remain commonplace in most houses and are organised for first and second year boys to do by their respective Housemasters. |
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Regional variants are prevalent, with German influences particularly commonplace in South Australia. |
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When stouts were emerging in the 18th century, oysters were a commonplace food often served in public houses and taverns. |
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But in every instance the commonplace thing is transformed by metaphor, the figure that moves the object toward the metaquotidian. |
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The matches between the two clubs are said to have bragging rights at stake and banter between the fans of both clubs is commonplace. |
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It is a commonplace of seventeenth-century scholarship to identify Ford as Shakespeare's most ardent epigone. |
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The use of custumals from influential towns soon became commonplace over large areas. |
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Even though every former DR narrow gauge railway has undergone privatisation, the daily steam operations are still commonplace there. |
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He continued to write poems and songs and began a commonplace book in 1783, while his father fought a legal dispute with his landlord. |
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Many Indonesian dishes and foodstuffs have become commonplace in the Netherlands. |
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Smuggling, bribery, piracy, and intimidation of customs officials became commonplace. |
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The work sought to position itself so the everyday environment can cause the viewer to pause and regard the commonplace as extraordinary. |
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The slippery ball will also bring on mistakes, and fumbles around the in-goal area should be commonplace. |
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Public celebrations of Saint David's Day, although still small in number, are becoming more commonplace. |
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Thus, foyers with shelves to put shoes and racks to hold coats are commonplace among mosques. |
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With the greater number of clear nights, frosts remain commonplace quite far south as late as April. |
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The claim that policing has become dangerously overcentralised is now a political commonplace. |
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It's becoming more commonplace in sheep, but farmers sometimes wrongfully diagnose it as foot rot or scald. |
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Bellerophon's adventures are commonplace types, similar to the adventures of Heracles and Theseus. |
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During the 17th and 18th centuries execution in the British realm was commonplace and a part of life. |
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Tanning of animal skins, pottery and weaving were commonplace in this era also. |
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Still, civil war, royal assassinations, and usurpation were commonplace, and warlords and great landholders assumed wide discretionary powers. |
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Such attempts were more than commonplace among the doges of the first few centuries of Venetian history, but all were ultimately unsuccessful. |
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Over time these partnerships became more commonplace and led to the development of large trading companies. |
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Even a cursory observation of examples reveals how commonplace they are in all forms of language use, yet we are hardly aware of their existence. |
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By the 11th century there were parts of Europe where the exploitation of water was commonplace. |
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However, even with such guidelines in place, injuries in textile production, due to the machines themselves, are still commonplace. |
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These machines utilised several features for the first time which have since become commonplace in machine design. |
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Music company virals are becoming commonplace as costs of promos force labels to reconsider how to target more directly to consumers. |
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We want to see how far our readers can get the best impression of an ordinary, commonplace, ugly, commercial, shoppy or warehousy street. |
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Waymarking in Europe is commonplace and British national parks have resisted their introduction. |
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To keep a commonplace is instinctual to intellectual cultivation. |
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When science was young, the invocation of miracles was commonplace. |
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Edgeworth's coloristic practice and her choice of botanical subjects are, then, anything but commonplace. |
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Shady political operatives and campaign finance scandals are commonplace. |
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This prohibition against reconsolidating may unexpectedly affect groups during commonplace fact patterns, such as spinoffs. |
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For instance, as is now commonplace, Intia has inserted clock times and calendric dates into her narrative. |
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The desiccants are commonplace, regenerable, and already approved for food use. |
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By 2010, individual users requiring multiple terabytes of storage will be commonplace. |
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Streamlining tools such as lean manufacturing, six sigma and theory of constraints have become commonplace in a range of industries. |
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Like his predecessors, the first part of Ahuitzotl's reign was spent suppressing rebellions that were commonplace due to the indirect nature of Aztec rule. |
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The threat of drought is commonplace throughout the island chains. |
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Thralls and slaves legally commanded no weregild, but it was commonplace to make a nominal payment in the case of a thrall and the value of the slave in such a case. |
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The worst traffic jam could be witnessed near Pirwadhai and Rawat area, where intercity and intracity bus stands and van terminals have all become a commonplace. |
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Despite controls, violations of drift net fishing laws are commonplace. |
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The commonplace nature of denizenship in Germany strengthens Chin's point that understanding national identity requires more than tracking changes in juridical categories. |
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Many of the ideas and phrases that Moore points to as parallels, and therefore as proof of Defoe's continuity in his works, were commonplace in the eighteenth century. |
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Today, Indian restaurants are commonplace in most Irish cities and towns. |
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Although crowds singing anthems during matches was commonplace, there was no precedent for the anthem to be sung before a game commenced in any sport. |
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It goldened, as nothing else goldened, the commonplace countryside. |
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Many an ancient commonplace is weird news to the nowaday ear. |
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Large centrifugal impeller compressors are commonplace throughout the petrochemical sector, where they usually operate on a continuous duty basis. |
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Investing in viaticals is increasingly commonplace in the United States. |
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After the English Civil War, it was accepted that parliament should be summoned to meet regularly, but it was still commonplace for monarchs to refuse royal assent to bills. |
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Rather this opposition stems from the postbiblical period, in which speculation concerning reasons for the repudiation of Ishmael becomes commonplace. |
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Today the practice of alternative cuts is more commonplace, though often as a way to make a film stand out in the DVD marketplace by adding new material. |
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They considered the Italian anthologies to be analogous to Petrarchan handbooks or commonplace books that helped them become proficient in the language of Petrarchism. |
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I could get hold of nothing but of some commonplace phrases, those futile phrases that give the measure of our impotence before each other's trials. |
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It somehow got picked up by neopagans and has become commonplace since the 1991 movie The Doors, in which Jim Morrison gets married in a Celtic pagan ritual. |
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Furniture was basic, with stools being commonplace rather than chairs. |
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Bt, a bacterial toxin meant to kill off the Colorado potato beetle, one of the potato's commonplace enemies in the growing fields of big agriculture. |
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Youth dies. Life hurts. Love warms. Understanding heals. The wounds and balms of the human condition are so commonplace that men eventually experience them without noticing. |
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However, QWERTY keyboards are more commonplace in the country. |
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African violets are commonplace, old fashioned but beautiful. |
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Webster personally led one of the prosecutions, but public sentiment in New England against slavery was so strong that jury nullification became commonplace on slavery issues. |
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