Sentence examples for uncommon approval from inspiring English sources
Leona Helmsley, the self-styled hotel queen whose prison term for income tax evasion and fraud was greeted with uncommon approval by a public who regarded her as a 1980s symbol of arrogance and greed, died yesterday at her home in Greenwich, Conn.
Such approval is not uncommon for lifeguards, an antidote to the hostility they sometimes feel from people who don't want to follow their directions.
WASHINGTON — Moving with uncommon speed, Congress gave final approval on Thursday to a $168 billion economic rescue package, including rebates for taxpayers and tax breaks for businesses, that lawmakers and President Bush hope will set off a rush of springtime spending and spark the slowing economy.
To Pinsky and the city, these demands — and the twenty-million-dollar penalty if the City Council's approval was delayed — were "not uncommon," since developers often "take liability for public approvals".
Regulatory and ethical review times also introduced delays and it was not uncommon for grants to expire before all approvals were in place.
Seclusion rooms are not uncommon in American schools, and not all states require parental approval for their use.
It's not uncommon for favorability ratings to track a point or two ahead of approval ratings — but this is a particularly large gap.
It is not uncommon for post-military regimes to find that they must seek military approval for a wide variety of state activities.
The approval breaks the monopoly held by Biogen, the maker of Avonex, under a government program meant to encourage research into treatments for uncommon diseases.
