In British politics this usually indicates culpability in something akin to an Elliot Spitzer-level event (scandals involving rubber, Nazi uniforms and unusually-shaped vegetables are not uncommon here).
As a result, in "Pedro," we get the discerning and uncommon narrative of one unusually sensitive ballplayer's path from the Dominican Republic to the major leagues (and back: Martinez has bought up the property around his childhood home).
In a city where seaside villas and boxy Soviet-era buildings are the norm, this unusually shaped house, built in 2005, is uncommon.
Similarly, a RIFR Mtb isolate carrying an uncommon rpoB mutation was associated with unusually high virulence and transmission in an HIV positive cohort.
Nevertheless, both federal and state courts look closely at confessions secured during unusually long interrogations prior to arraignment, and it is not uncommon for such confessions to be ruled inadmissible in a criminal trial.
They tend to be medium-bodied, with no more than 12 percent or 13 percent alcohol — unusually low at a time when reds with 16 percent are not uncommon and even whites sometimes top 14 percent.
Trade friction between the United States and its major partners is not uncommon, but the steel measures seem to have struck an unusually raw nerve.
In 2007, microbiologic surveillance of bacterial meningitis was reintroduced in northern Cameroon to monitor the changing epidemiology of meningococci, with particular attention to uncommon serogroups, such as W135 or X, which have been unusually frequent in Sahelian Africa since 2000 (6 – 10 ).
"While attacks on Border Patrol agents are not uncommon, the agents showed great restraint when faced with the dangers of this unusually large group," said Paul Beeson, the chief patrol agent for the agency's San Diego sector.
Alde Garden Tipis, Suffolk It's not uncommon for pubs to turn their gardens into campsites during the summer months, but rather unusually, Marie and Mark Smith bought the Sweffling White Horse for its garden – and unexpectedly became pub landlords overnight.
Neoplastic disease is uncommon in most British free-living wild species but red squirrels appear to be unusually susceptible.
