Sentence examples for the commonplace practice from inspiring English sources

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.

What's more, his style owes nothing to, neither depends on nor inspires, the pathetic fallacy of agitated realism — the commonplace practice of filming conflict, whether physical or emotional, with a handheld camera in jerky motion, the images cut together quickly to signify disorder.

Attempts at intensification of pond aquaculture beyond the commonplace practice of supplemental aeration may be classified into categories of physical/chemical techniques and a broad range of microbial techniques.

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.

In a departure from the more commonplace practice of collapsing small minority populations prior to analysis, like Lad, we looked at all seven independent racial categories available within the NTDB.

Which makes us wonder if the now commonplace practice of applying for jobs online doesn't actually hurt older workers.

In response, Global Road Entertainment, the studio behind the film, has defended the scenes as a commonplace practice in these kinds of competitions. .

(Hailing a Town Car on the street, of course, remains an illegal, if commonplace, practice in the city).