Sentence examples for commonplace rules from inspiring English sources

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His doctoral dissertation in 1978 on shootings by New York City police officers led to now commonplace rules that forbid warning shots and firing at moving vehicles.

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Buildings that are not normative, that appeal to the emotions, that find beauty in the commonplace, transgress rules of decorum that are even more rigid now than in Lapidus's time.

His third commonplace book, Winter Rules, serves up more than 150 charming, playful and provocative entries from the likes of Jane Austen, Edgar Degas, Alexander Pope, Sarah Orne Jewett, David Halberstam and Susan Sontag.

Writing about commonplace books ("Narrow Ruled"), Baker gets right to it from the opening sentence ("When I come across something I really like in a book, I put a dot in the margin") and never flags, delivering a gathering of quotations about the gathering of quotations.

During the Seleucid period, the trend of local ruling dynasties with semi-autonomous rule, and sometimes outright rebellious rule, became commonplace, a fact reflected in the later Parthian style of governance.

It was just a rules fight, commonplace in the Texas House, where everything moves as slowly as the last two stop-start-stop-start minutes of a tight college basketball game.

Supports for the rule are mostly seen in groups that have a male-biased SSD [ 37], and exceptions to the rule are commonplace [ 2].

Poor safety practice was commonplace including speeding, road rule violations and little use of helmets and this did not vary between rural and urban areas.

Ernst & Young vowed to defend itself, saying its actions "were permissible under the profession's rules and were commonplace" at the time.

The basic components of Farrelly humor — absurdist raunch, compensatory sentimentality, an unmistakably male point of view — have become commonplace in a comedy landscape ruled by Judd Apatow and Todd Phillips.

In a society that has pretty much trashed most of the rules, where violence is commonplace and selfishness is applauded, good manners swim against the stream.

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