Sentence examples for uncommon move from inspiring English sources

That is not an uncommon move when companies go public.

Judicial Field Trip Justice Roger S. Hayes of State Supreme Court in Manhattan made an uncommon move Thursday - he took a trial on the road.

It's a somewhat uncommon move that could yield a higher payout than the $13.65-a-share that Michael S. Dell and the investment firm Silver Lake are offering.

But in 1992, in an uncommon move for a board member, she broke with Mr. Ferrer on the question of how much instruction children should receive on the perils of AIDS.

The diplomatic slap from Mr. Gauck was a relatively uncommon move: the last time a German president called off a foreign trip was in February 2011, when Christian Wulff, then the president, canceled a trip to Bahrain because of the violent crackdown there by security forces on demonstrators.

In a somewhat uncommon move for Apple, the app will continue to be made available on the App Store and will be made free later today.   .

Now, in an interesting and uncommon marketing move, it's branding 15 independent southern resorts as its Southern Living Hotel Collection, beginning July 1.

On the one hand, calling an embryo a "bean" makes embryonic human life sound like a form of vegetative life — not an uncommon rhetorical move in these debates, but also one that collapses on the barest scrutiny.

In computer science, where it is not uncommon to move between academia and industry, his experience at Google probably will be an asset if he eventually chooses to return to the ivory tower.

Ms. Obreht, who was born in the former Yugoslavia and is, astonishingly, only 25, writes with remarkable authority and eloquence, and she demonstrates an uncommon ability to move seamlessly between the gritty realm of the real and the more primary-colored world of the fable.

In some homes, it isn't uncommon to try moving a router around to find the best signal.