But in the case of Repsol, Spain's largest oil and gas company, they have become commonplace.
As a kid who associated manti with summers spent at the dacha, I always thought they were as commonplace in Russia as borscht.
Situations like that are of a sort that concierges from Nashville to New York or Nice see so often they've become commonplace: A guest is in a panic and can't fathom a solution to their problem, whether it's a soiled suit, a canceled reservation or a missing piece of luggage.
Although public tours are not commonplace as they are in LA, visitors can catch a glimpse of show business by driving or walking by the backlots of such bustling studios as North Shore Studios ( formerly Lion Gate Studios ), Bridge Studios, Vancouver Film Studios, Canadian Motion Picture Park and Eagle Creek Studios.
Ian Biggs, deputy director of CQC in the South, said staff had told the commission that shortages had become "so commonplace" that they had become tired of reporting their concerns as they perceived that nothing was done about it.
Since they were first made in 1995, Bose-Einstein condensates have become commonplace as experimental tools. (They are particularly valued for their ability to slow the speed of light all the way down to zero.) Dr Steinhauer and his colleagues created a condensate out of a gas of rubidium atoms held in a magnetic trap.
Mundell's insights, going back three decades, may seem commonplace today, but they were utterly unorthodox when he first propounded them.
Today, the directors of our nuclear laboratories tell us they have a deeper understanding of our arsenal from Stockpile Stewardship than they ever had when testing was commonplace.
In Mr Izetbegovic, therefore, the western powers had their first experience of a dilemma that has since become commonplace: whether or not they should help create, and whether they could live with, a possibly ardent Muslim state.
And while the broadcasters didn't get the structural commercial breaks of four quarters and repeated player substitutions, they did introduce one innovation that soon became commonplace across all televised sports--the sponsored scoreboard-cum-game clock.
This turns on its head the commonplace assumption that societies reduced their birthrates as they got wealthier.
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Few of the top executives have worked for another airline, and they blissfully ignore strategies like complex fare structures that are commonplace elsewhere.
They have avoided the massive city bombings that al Qaeda made commonplace in Iraq and Pakistan.
While both are commonplace in the landscape of the criminal law, they are not natural features.
"Even if gay pupils are not directly experiencing bullying, they are learning in an environment where homophobic language and comments are commonplace, " the report said.
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Shootings may be commonplace in yakuza (gangster) films, but in real life they are unusual.
The greatest threat to investors and far more commonplace, is wrongdoing by pensions and money managers that appear credible only because they have the resources to conceal their crimes.
Federal officials said they are taking the threat seriously, while trying to temper the news by saying such threats are commonplace in connection with key dates.
Long before someone is placed on trial and given an overworked, overwhelmed public defender, they were likely already facing steep odds, living in communities where racial profiling and clashes with police were commonplace.
"Admitting that he and Gore 'had expertise lacking in order to strategically execute the vision (they had) committed to' Hyatt created an environment in which major business errors and technical failures became commonplace and acceptable, " the lawsuit alleges.
They had lied to each other so many times, over so many years, that deceptions between them had become commonplace, practically repertoire.
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