Manual's imperviousness to reform was an extreme example of a national commonplace: after a quarter century of concerted attempts to improve urban school districts, the results for poor children, beyond some gains at the elementary level, remain slight.
Take, for example, a commonplace example of the courtroom and how evidence is used.
The lyrics also serve as an example of a dialogue that was commonplace during the 1970s between songwriters and music critics.
It was yet another example of a terrible truth, one that has been a commonplace for so long that it is seldom commented upon: insurgents in Afghanistan rarely take any prisoners.
The proliferation of a commonplace — or vernacular — photography is a much more profound change.
Taken in its most straightforward sense, this point has become something of a commonplace.
Russia may be expected to be a prime example of a sharp decrease in foreign companies' involvement in domestic oil and gas operations, as the perception is that IOCs may not have anything meaningful to contribute becomes more commonplace.
More broadly, though, the problems at M.P.S. provide an extreme example of an old-line banking pattern that analysts say is still disturbingly commonplace in Europe.
She and two boys, Eric Mancilla, 16, of Little Falls and Shannon Carroll, 17, of Clifton offered themselves as examples of how commonplace drugs are in small towns and suburbs around the state.
The acts Russo described became commonplace in the news post-9/11 and he would prove to be an early example of what also became commonplace in our century: a whistleblower who found himself on the wrong side of the law and so was prosecuted for releasing the secret truth about the acts of our government.
