Sentence examples for described as a common from inspiring English sources

Not only does it make guests feel safer, it also solves what Mr. Thompson described as a common hotel challenge.

He chose to have the procedure over going on medication for the rest of his life, after learning he has supraventricular tachycardia, which is described as a common heart abnormality.

By 1726, the garden of London's most aristocratic square, St James's, home to the Prince of Wales (the future George II), had fallen into a "filthy condition" and was described as "a common dung hill".

In the case of Ms. Wragg, who bought her dream house near Flatbush Avenue, she and her legal services lawyers say that she was ensnared in a scheme of the type that the F.B.I. has described as a common pattern of mortgage fraud -- "property flipping" -- in which properties were bought and resold at high prices, supported by excessive appraisals, and often resulting in foreclosure.

The cases were linked by what court papers described as a common "Qaeda facilitator" in Peshawar, Pakistan, who prosecutors said used the same e-mail account to send coded messages to Mr. Zazi in the United States and to Mr. Naseer in Britain.

Gen. Norton A. Schwartz, the chief of staff of the Air Force, told reporters that only some remains from the Sept. 11 attack on the Pentagon — but not remains from the plane crash site in Shanksville, Pa., "as best we can tell" — were ordered incinerated by the Department of Defense in what he described as a common practice at the time.

Dominic Grieve described as an "common sense" a suggestion by the MPs and peers that privacy injunctions should routinely be served on internet companies, as well as newspapers and broadcasters.

Rather than reaching a binding agreement, with economic incentives for good behavior and sanctions for scofflaws, the delegates settled for a what a skeptic might describe as a common expression of good intentions.

Among the rulings were that the church could be held liable for the conduct of one member against another, and that the plaintiff could argue that the abuser was a clergyman because he held the title of high priest, which the church describes as a common lay designation.

The trial is being closely watched by political operatives and campaign finance lawyers because it revolves around what prosecutors here describe as a common shell game in the financing of political campaigns: the practice of routing corporate donations through national political action committees to circumvent a Texas ban on corporate money in legislative races.

The woman now wants her story to be told to help people spot the signs of grooming, which she describes as "a common thing that not enough people know about".