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Fraudulent disclosures are commonplace.
Alas, such commonplace language also makes wars harder to avoid, harder to end, and arguably more deadly.
We are entering an era in which it will be commonplace to order a bespoke shirt that will then be made in the cheapest location in the world.
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.
Throughout the developing world, children die because they are born in the wrong place – not of exotic, incurable diseases, but of the commonplace childhood illnesses that we have known how to treat for almost a century.
That solution is becoming pretty commonplace, from the Aliyevs of Azerbaijan to the Kims of North Korea to the Assads in Syria.
Wide gyrations in exchange rates became a staple of international financial markets after the Bretton Woods system broke down in the early 1970s, and mega-depreciations were commonplace later in the decade and through much of the 1980s, when inflation raged across much of the world.
As a result, China’s leaders do not know how to cope with the kind of intra-governmental and inter-regional conflicts that are commonplace in modern states, or with the notion of a loyal opposition, particularly one with a strong local or regional base.
In Australia, the United States, and many other countries, it has become commonplace to see people so fat that they waddle rather than walk.
Although climate change is not believed to have caused the typhoon, similar levels of devastation will become commonplace if nothing is done to slow the warming of the planet.
Even in my own lifetime, tooth loss was commonplace.
In the early 1980s, commonplace opinion held that these industries included telecoms, water, electricity generation and distribution, gas, and various services.
The Lost Wealth of NationsThe 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.
Today, the complex engineering capacity needed to produce nuclear weapons – skills restricted to a few countries through the 1970’s – is rather commonplace.
Torture, grossly unfair trials and denial of basic rights are commonplace.
Likewise, wars between countries cannot be ruled out, and wars within them are relatively commonplace.
The ultimate hope, however, is for the “sustainable” label to be so commonplace and legitimate that consumers one day are more surprised by its absence than its presence.
What we saw with Dorian and Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico in 2017 is likely to become commonplace.
But if Facebook introduces seamless international transactions for the general public, runs will become commonplace.
In Nigeria, “brown envelope journalism” – when reporters are paid by individuals or organizations to publish favorable stories – is commonplace.
Advanced economies have been throwing unprecedented sums of money at the pandemic: fiscal packages totaling one-tenth of GDP or more – to strengthen health systems, pay furloughed workers’ wages, and support firms – were unthinkable a year ago; today, they are commonplace.
With financial speculation now commonplace, so, too, are fraud and instability.
These are all core Sanders positions, and all are commonplace in Europe.
Government-sanctioned murders of foreign officials, clerics, and journalists are commonplace nowadays.
Extradition arrangements are commonplace;Hong Kong has them with 20 other countries.
But resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will not end the civil war in Syria or the slaughter in Yemen, curtail Iran’s nuclear ambitions, restrain Saudi Arabia’s leaders, or ameliorate the repression and corruption that are commonplace throughout the region.
And as home assistants such as Google Home, Alexa, and Siri become more commonplace, users will soon get single-answer responses to queries, instead of multiple suggestions.
Of medium height, thick-set and with a loose gait, Mikhaylov in his brown hat, olive-green overcoat and narrow trousers (at a time when wide ones had long since come into fashion), and especially his commonplace broad face, expressing a combination of timidity and a desire to be dignified, created an unpleasant impression.
All talked excitedly at the same time, while the servant poured out Rhine wine in place of champagne which was looked upon as commonplace.
By then the shores of Africa and Europe were converging, and in this narrow space collisions were commonplace.
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