Sentence examples for commonplace major from inspiring English sources

Minor earthquakes are commonplace, major traffic jams more so.

The use of muscle-building drugs and amphetamines remains commonplace in Major League Baseball, current and former major leaguers say, even as players are being tested for steroids for the first time this season.

But there is nothing commonplace about Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the soldier allegedly responsible for the biggest mass killing at a military base in the US.

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Sadly, these types of attacks are becoming all too commonplace in major cities around the word, where London, is only the most recent target to fall prey to this scourge.

To combat such injustices, which have become commonplace during major sporting events, Terre de Hommes has launched a campaign to encourage the International Olympics Committee to take Brazil's youngest victims into account.

Centers for Global Health have become more commonplace at major universities in developed countries, and more faculty and students from the "North" are interested in pursuing medical research in resource-limited settings.

But the extent to which split screens have become commonplace is a major change.

Taking your lunch -- or breakfast or dinner -- on board may become commonplace even on major airlines after the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington.

But the combination of mark to market rules and securitized loans created an entirely different scenario, particularly post 2005 when mark to market rules became commonplace in all major banks.

Security concerns have increased dramatically during the past 2 years, and it has become almost commonplace for the major maritime and military powers to assert the right to stop and board merchant vessels to look for suspect cargoes in all parts of the oceans.