Sentence examples for uncommon step from inspiring English sources

The commodity commission's members also voted on Friday to publicly disclose the existence of their investigation soon, an uncommon step that occurs only in the most serious cases.

In an uncommon step, the military wing of Hamas, the Islamic group that controls Gaza, took responsibility for the mortar fire.

Unable to procure a release that officially required signatures from top antiterrorism officials in Washington, Mr. Wynne took an uncommon step for an F.B.I. agent: he called the Legal Aid Society for a lawyer to help the jailed man.

UNITED NATIONS — The Security Council on Tuesday unanimously condemned North Korea for launching a rocket last month, with Pyongyang's main ally, China, taking an uncommon step by joining the criticism.

He has been in detention since November 2008, and Chinese officials subsequently took the uncommon step of publicly confirming that he was under investigation by the Ministry of Public Security.

Nevertheless, the dispute, trifling in the bigger scheme of Rye life, would have gotten little notice had not the city manager at the time, Paul Shew, taken the uncommon step of calling in a psychiatric team from the medical center in February.

On Dec. 3, the evening before Prime Minister Stephen Harper shut down Parliament to prevent his government's defeat by Mr. Dion's coalition, both men made television addresses to the nation, an uncommon political step in Canada.

It's not uncommon for the step children to despise you at first.

Sometimes, and often most successfully, they are engaged to sing their native repertory, but it is not uncommon to find them stepping into the most taxing Italian roles.

It was not uncommon to see a volunteer step away from the camp to cry or write an emotional post on Facebook.

He undertook the training necessary to be certified as a Buddhist priest, a step that's not uncommon for ex-yakuza who fear retribution from former colleagues.