Sentence examples for is a routine affair from inspiring English sources

Western diplomats say that such activity is a routine affair that will continue, and that China cannot seriously expect otherwise.

But the play, directed by Bill Largess, is a routine affair, depicting a storybook romance between the strong-willed Amelia and the enlightened Ethan, who volunteers for service with the Pennsylvania troops shortly after the two fall in love.

It should be a routine affair, yet the prospect stirs up anguish that seems oddly outsize.

"Before we used to get scared, but now it's a routine affair for us," she says of being arrested.

With 150 digs around Anatolia, many of which have been ongoing for decades, renewal used to be a routine affair.

The Isfahan meeting was expected to be a routine affair, at which the cartel merely rolled over its production quotas.

Neymar's corner was a routine affair with little serious menace but it was allowed to drift to the far post, where Carlos Sanchez switched off to allow Silva to bundle home.

The release of the legal opinion to the intelligence committee is the latest twist in an unusually dramatic runup to a nomination for a CIA director, which is normally a routine affair.

Like Pinochet's, his military career was a largely routine affair – a steady climb up the ranks until he reached the top.

In recent years, the sale of weapons to Taiwan -- governed by the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act, which calls for the United States to provide "sufficient" means for Taiwan to defend itself -- has been a fairly routine affair.

Death has become a routine affair on the railways.