The scene was routine, until Fingleton, the gigantic import from Durham, England, emerged.
Witnesses said that the Aug. 11 flight was routine until about 20 minutes before landing.
Mamedyarov v Carlsen was routine until the Azeri tried to be bold with 17 h4?! and 20 d5? Optically it looked good, in reality the white d5 pawn was self-pinned and lost.
An aviation official, who did not want to be identified discussing a developing investigation, said that the plane was not making an emergency landing, and that the situation had been routine until the crash.
The check-ins were routine — until the last visit at the ICE office in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, on August 24.
Today, of course, the sub-four-minute mile is routine, but until Sir Roger (he was knighted in 1975) accomplished it, it was considered beyond the realm of human possibility like climbing Mount Everest or walking on the moon.
In contrast, much of the complaint against Mr. Rajaratnam focuses on his habit of swapping tips and rumors in advance of quarterly earnings reports and other corporate announcements, a practice on Wall Street that has been routine — at least until now.
They're routine and ordinary until they disappear.
And when did this practice begin and end? A. "I've been told this was routine in phys ed classes until the late 1960s, when the practice of swimming in the nude was stopped," Margie Feinberg, a spokeswoman for the Education Department, wrote in an e-mail message.
The practice was routine among the art cognoscenti until almost two years ago, when Senator Charles E. Grassley, the Iowa Republican who was then the committee's chairman, inserted provisions into the Pension Protection Act of 2006 that made partial gifts less advantageous for donors.
