It's hardball politics, though a legal and utterly commonplace practice.
This is a necessary and commonplace practice among East End vintners.
Mr. Dorfman's efforts to promote his ideas and to see them become commonplace practice seem to be gaining traction.
(Hailing a Town Car on the street, of course, remains an illegal, if commonplace, practice in the city).
Invoking Islam to argue for religious liberty was an eighteenth-century commonplace, practiced by writers as different as Johnson, Montesquieu, and Voltaire.
In a series of essays published in the nineteen-seventies, Kass opposed what is now the commonplace practice of in-vitro fertilization.
The board will also do away with the commonplace practice of "smoothing" the value of pension investments, or spreading the recognition of market gains and losses over several years.
While not saying so explicitly, they were suggesting that Mr. Amire was using Mr. Agha in the commonplace practice known as bacha baazi, in which powerful Afghan commanders frequently keep young boys as personal servants, dancers and sex slaves.
The commonplace practice of casting a much younger female against a much older male has been prevalent since Hollywood's golden age: Kim Novak was half the 50-year-old James Stewart's age during filming of 1958's Vertigo.
Here's a telling passage from this Sunday's Times Magazine story on "selective reduction" — the increasingly commonplace practice whereby twin pregnancies are "reduced" to single babies via abortion: Dr. Mark Evans, an obstetrician and geneticist, was among the first to reduce a pregnancy.
