Sentence examples for as a common matter from inspiring English sources

Interestingly, it seems the ancient Chinese were not particularly bothered by lunar eclipses, and one text from about 90 BCE dismisses them as "a common matter". Ancient Hindu mythology provides a rather graphic and disturbing explanation for solar eclipses.

She and proponents cited a number of issues, related to end-of-life care and medical decisions as well as other, more common matters, as reasons to extend marriage to gay couples in the state.

Based on the first round of offspring (693 guppies in all), they found that a rare male sired more than twice as many guppies as a common one, no matter which pattern he bore.

Studies using various animal models have suggested glutamate excitotoxicity as a common pathway in white matter injury [8], [9].

He said: "Whilst I am aware that the view has been expressed in some parts of the press that the killing of Colin Hatch and the attempted murder of Ian Huntley were somehow lesser offences - deserving lesser sentences - because of the crimes that they had themselves committed, such a view is manifestly wrong, both as a matter of common sense and as a matter of law.

He said: "I do not accept Miss Judd's submission that a child failing to follow boundaries set by a parent is part of the ordinary stuff of parental experience or, as she put it, a common or garden matter.

As a matter of common practice, enemy combatants taken captive on the field of battle do not get habeas corpus no matter where they are held.

— that it was shutting its big mouth "as a matter of common decency".

We all instinctively know that, as a matter of common sense.

As a matter of common sense these sort of situations are likely to attract numbers of fraudulent claims.

"The 19th century world regarded reusing materials as a matter of common sense, of stewardship of material goods," Strasser said.