MBM combated the then common zoning that has left many city centres empty at night, devoid of residents.
Then, in a ritual so common that it goes largely unnoticed in this pleasant East Texas town of 36,000, about 100 prison inmates are released every weekday into the streets of Huntsville.
In one of the most notable essays, "Federalist 10," Madison rejected the then common belief that republican government was possible only for small states.
Then, after a brief spell back on Earth, he contrives another means of space travel through the use of focused mirrors, which lands him on the Sun, where he decentralizes the then common conviction that man and its world existed at the center of the universe.
Muntz rejected the then common opinion that used car salesmen should project a staid image.
In the 1975 referendum, the left case against the then common market was that it was a cold war customs union against the developing world that would block socialist reforms.
In analogy, if the train moves at the speed of light and a passenger shines a laser in the same direction, then common sense indicates that a trackside observer should see the light moving at the sum of the two speeds, or twice the speed of light (6 × 108 metres per second).
Along with a colleague, Mario Molina, Dr. Rowland found that chlorinated fluorocarbons, the supposedly inert building blocks of aerosol sprays that were then common in deodorants, hair care products and grocery freezers had the potential to deplete the ozone layer to dangerous levels.
Chief among these was that when adjudicating complaints of sexual harassment or assault, schools must use a standard of a "preponderance of the evidence" rather than the higher standard of "clear and convincing evidence" that was then common in universities (let alone the exceedingly high standard of "beyond a reasonable doubt" used in criminal cases).
If a and b are natural numbers, then common factors are those numbers that divide both a and b evenly.
