Body shots have long been a common practice in tennis.
This has been a common practice in the music business for more than a century.
For decades ghosting has been a common practice within the prison service, albeit one that has outraged prisoner support groups.
What is perhaps different now is that the Tour has addressed what appears to have been a common practice: the use of performance-enhancing drugs.
This has been a common practice in Web-based surveys, which have tended to be skewed toward more-affluent, better-educated, and middle-aged households.
Mr. Carroll and other legislators agreed that the giving of holiday tokens -- pens, pads and other desk trinkets, often bearing the giver's name -- had been a common practice on the part of majority leaders and other political figures.
Ability grouping in reading has been a common practice at the school for at least a decade, and more teachers are beginning to group children in math as well, he said.
In addition, it has been a common practice of authoritarian regimes to intervene once balloting has begun by intimidating voters (e.g., through physical attacks) and by manipulating the count of votes that have been freely cast.
According to Eva Kadzo, a public health officer and community strategist with the ministry of health, sack farming in Kibera has helped discourage people from planting crops near dump sites and sewers, which had been a common practice in the area.
In particular, its application in hydrological forecasting has been a common practice.
Building school centers using industrialized technologies has been a common practice in Catalonia, Spain, since 2002.
