The overall picture is by now familiar to anyone interested in the news: Google, Amazon, Starbucks and many other multinationals are using different jurisdictions and complex accounting rules to avoid paying corporation tax.
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The radicalization of young Muslims in the West, in particular children of the well-off, is by now a familiar story.
It is by now a familiar story of a leader bound into a monetary union having to change the culture of his country in order to try and regain competitiveness.
Finally, in the immediate case, Huawei acted clumsily, if not irresponsibly, and in defiance of a process with which it should by now be quite familiar.
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Instead, Romney opened his remarks by repeating the now familiar charge that President Barack Obama has broken promises to the American people as if voters only wish that the man who gave them health care and financial reform had also passed cap and trade.
Of course, by now most of us are familiar with similar plans expressed by many of the fast food and other companies throughout the nation.
Two men now identified by people familiar with the matter as 28-year-old Mr. Adebolajo and 22-year-old Michael Adebowale were shot and arrested by police that day and remain hospitalized and in custody.
The reasons are painfully familiar by now: fallen home values, job losses, depleted savings and low interest rates not to mention the disappearance of guaranteed pensions and retiree health-care benefits, the rise in Social Security's full retirement age and people simply living longer, healthier lives.
Only in a brief postscript do we learn that pithecanthropus now goes by the more familiar name homo erectus.
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By now David Miliband was becoming a familiar face to the British public, and had a growing reputation on the international stage too.
By now, you're probably familiar with Apple's latest earbuds.
But by now, the catastrophic is arguably too familiar to be truly exotic.
Not only were earnings above expectations (by now a routine game many investors are familiar with) but sales, the main ingredient for an enduring profit expansion, were surprisingly strong.
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They were joined by a battalion of women singing the now familiar Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh lyrics while doing the matching hand flips and foot marching from the Single Ladies music video.
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After a multi-year explosion in advertising and other outreaches by these brands, practically every American is now familiar with them and their product: auto insurance.
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Yet Westminster-watchers thrown by this turbulence are now being treated to a comfortingly familiar spectacle.
Last month, Mr. Kelleher met with NAMA and proposed paying off the loan in a bid to take back control of the property, which is now overseen by a receiver, according to people familiar with the matter.
The Argentinian and Uruguayan tradition of the Tango, now familiar around the world, was developed by the urban lower classes in Buenos Aires and Montevideo in the Rio de la Plata basin.
Although I'm squarely in CW's demographic bullseye, I have to confess I only recognized one of the two songs the group played--and, frankly, everyone in the country is overly familiar with "Let's Get It Started" by now.
It has also broached the idea of licensing content directly from media companies for some sort of subscription-TV service, resembling the packages offered now by cable operators, but the talks have been "exploratory, " according to people familiar with the matter.
For all the familiar signs of British economic frailty that are now making headlines, such as demand driven by consumption rather than investment, the biggest long-term worry is a different one: whether productivity growth, troublingly weak in the past few years, can revive.
Mr. Lin is now being courted by dozens of companies but has yet to make a major nonsports endorsement, according to people familiar with the situation.
Now, Ford says she's coming back to the perfect situation in New York, surrounded by familiar faces from her Detroit days in coach Bill Laimbeer and some former teammates.
It is now in talks with private investors on a potential deal, possibly with guarantees by the government, according to people familiar with the talks.
On the theory that a united party of the right will then be matched by a united party of the left, France may therefore now be on the road to a two-party system familiar to voters in countries such as the United States, Britain, Australia, Spain or Germany.
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