Sentence examples for a familiar occurrence from inspiring English sources

Violence against doctors in China has become a familiar occurrence.

For many Europeans, street protests timed to international meetings are a familiar occurrence.

A familiar occurrence of a martingale in HMM-based efforts is the sequence-likelihood ratio classification.

I took my seat on the plane when I was met by a familiar occurrence: Someone was kicking the back of my seat.

The formation of skin blisters is a familiar occurrence in orthopaedic surgery when adhesive dressings are used on tissue that will undergo swelling due to oedema.

SUICIDE attacks on Israeli civilians by Palestinian militant groups have been a gruesomely familiar occurrence in the three years or so since the militants began their second intifada (uprising) against Israeli rule in the occupied territories.

His tragic end is a sadly familiar occurrence within today's equally distorting framework of trying to coerce evolution in a direction it didn't quite go for chimps, by making them be us: living on our turf and terms, dressing in our clothes, acting in our films and commercials, suffering in our research labs.

The results, their first La Liga title since 1996 and an even less familiar occurrence (40 years in the making), a place in the 2014 UEFA Champions League final against their fierce city enemy, Real Madrid.

Taliban insurgents claimed responsibility in what has become an all too familiar occurrence in Afghanistan's capital one week before a pivotal election to choose President Hamid Karzai's successor.

In what has regrettably become an all-too familiar occurrence in America, the virulently mephitic members of the Westboro Baptist Church have announced that they plan to picket the funerals of those killed in yesterday's bombing attack on the Boston Marathon in an apparent attempt to make the actual perpetrators of the attack seem like decent human beings by comparison.

The triumph of news is that it so seldom appears to be really new, but merely a fresh instance of a familiar general occurrence.