The imposition of arbitrary taxes is reportedly commonplace.

Space travel will be commonplace some time in the future.

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

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

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

I took it for granted. 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.

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

Drought, floods, and landslides have become commonplace. Relentless extraction is quickly depleting China s resource deposits.

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

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

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

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

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

It's kind of commonplace now, but his argument was because he'd been searching for the fossilized remains of early humans in Africa.

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

That's because it is hard for most people to recognize seriousness, which is rare, but more comfortable to endorse solemnity, which is commonplace.

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

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, to close, we heard a couple of days ago about the value of making individual heroism so commonplace that it becomes banal or routine.

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.

Encroachment by the Council on issues that fall within the purview of other organs of the United Nations, particularly the General Assembly, has regrettably become commonplace.

Little wonder, then, that political leaders consistently personalize international conflicts. Alas, such commonplace language also makes wars harder to avoid, harder to end, and arguably more deadly.

My big idea would be that while we think of it as commonplace to endow an art museum or endow a chair at a university, we really ought to be thinking about endowing wheat.

Moreover, nationalism has spread from the streets into the elite. Nationalist statements that would have been confined to the extremist newspaper Den in the early 1990 s are now considered normal, centrist, even commonplace.

Kuru was transmitted through cannibalistic rituals that were commonplace in Papua New Guinea until the 1950 s. Similarly, in the UK and elsewhere, healthy cattle were fed meat and bone meal made from infected cattle.

This confirms findings of other recent studies that the use of child soldiers has become commonplace in modern warfare, in keeping with the changed nature of armed conflict and the increasing use of small arms and light weapons.

Such a statement is now commonplace for most political leaders around the world, even though it neglects to address the question of how much we can do to help America and the world through climate policies versus other policies.

2012 may be the year of 3D printing, when this three decade old technology finally becomes accessible and even commonplace. Lisa Harouni gives a useful introduction to this fascinating way of making things including intricate objects once impossible to create.

Alarmed at the many acts of torture that have recently been disclosed and the attempts to make such practices commonplace or to justify such practices, including in situations of armed conflict, against persons protected by the principles of international humanitarian law,

September 11, 2001, was a terrible tragedy by any measure, but it was not a historical turning point. It did not herald a new era of international relations in which terrorists with a global agenda prevailed, or in which such spectacular terrorist attacks became commonplace.

With the taboo on discussing the succession broken, talk about the physical and mental fitness of the likely successor became commonplace, and members of the ruling family who objected to the prospect of being ruled by a severely incapacitated crown prince came to enjoy broad support.

That solution is becoming pretty commonplace, from the Aliyevs of Azerbaijan to the Kims of North Korea to the Assads in Syria. Dynastic succession safeguards the immediate and frequently extensive interests of the ruling family as well as those of the wider political and business elite.

We are confident that more ratifications will soon follow, and we encourage all States that have not yet done so to accede to the Rome Statute and join our efforts to translate the expression never again which has been commonplace since the First World War into action.

The IT revolution and associated swarm technologies enable the foremost solution a digital airspace that is wholly automatic in terms of air traffic control, navigation, and vehicle operations. Automatic aircraft operation is already becoming commonplace especially in the military but further increases will require a similarly automatic airspace.

Within a few years, this kind of transparency will probably be commonplace, both from Facebook and from ad networks and behavioral targeters trying to derive information about your likely purchases. But right now, only Digital Mirror is one of the few to give you the ability to do the same for yourself.

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. Where not long ago sunshine and solidarity were the order of the day, depression and confrontation are now the rule.

The claim that the spread of severe mental illness has reached epidemic proportions has been heard so often that, like any commonplace, it has lost its ability to shock. But the repercussions for international politics of the disabling conditions diagnosed as manic depressive illnesses (including major unipolar depression) and schizophrenia could not be more serious.

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. That is the mechanism that reduces the incentives to expropriate the creditor, and makes debt secure and cheap.

Similarly, dam building and river diversion have become commonplace, as humans water consumption has risen nine fold over the past century, to the point that mankind now uses more than half of all accessible fresh water roughly two thirds of it for agriculture. Fisheries remove more than 25 of the primary production in upwelling ocean regions and 35 in the temperate continental shelf.

As psychologists have shown, people are susceptible to wishful thinking bias, wishing away possible future problems that they would rather not think about. They may overemphasize the likelihood of economic success ( I will be making a lot more money in a few years ) and underemphasize the commonplace problems that regularly challenge family budgets ( I will be losing my job or getting a divorce ).

In the present case, similarly, even assuming the same good will at the political level on the part of Egyptian authorities as on the part of the representative with whom the guarantees were agreed, the reality at the lower operational levels of the State security services and other authorities with whom the complainant was in contact is that torture is commonplace.