Sentence examples for commonplace claim from inspiring English sources

It was a bold, if commonplace, claim, yet policy makers rarely examine their theory that school improvement alone can drive progress in health care, housing and income inequality.

But at the very least, for countries like the one we live in — developed, rich, stable, post-feminist and post-demographic transition — the commonplace claim that abortion restrictions don't reduce (and may even increase) abortion rates looks shaky rather than dispositive.

While he granted the commonplace claim that God must create and conserve our soul, Régis denied that we are enlightened by means of a union with ideas of bodies in God.

Firsthand encounters with the sacred were commonplace claims by even respected, "modern" Americans.

It has become commonplace to claim that Powell's speech had the opposite impact to that intended; making it impossible for mainstream politicians to discuss immigration openly.

Before the credit crunch, talk that London would replace New York as the world's financial centre was commonplace.That claim sounds rather hollow now, thanks to a change in the political and regulatory climate.

Cicero, thenceforth usually counsel for the defense, presented hair-raising behaviour as commonplace and claimed it as acceptable.

Yet it is a commonplace that people claim to forgive themselves both for wrongs they commit against others, and for self-directed wrongs in the form of some sort of personal failure or shortcoming, such as violating a commitment to another person; or failing to adhere to a diet.

It's not the first time the tech industry has claimed commonplace language as its own.

purchasing information or suborning employees from the opposite camp or elsewhere are treated as commonplace".Mr Al Fayed claims he has been betrayed by the British establishment but he should perhaps reflect that, but for a quirk in the law which oddly omits to make bribing an MP a criminal offence, he could be in the dock himself.

Attacks on Muslim prayer houses and impromptu mosques are commonplace in Greece, claimed Naim Elghandour, President of the Muslim Association of Greece.