It was commonly accepted behavior for women to dress up every day before they left the house.

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By doing this, it became a potential agent of positive change for the purposes of confronting historic media imbalances and commonly accepted gender prejudices.

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The Collins amendment will make banks replace a commonly accepted form of hybrid capital called trust preferred securities with common stock or other securities.

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They've discovered a Stuxnet 0.5 version that may have been in development or active as soon as November 2005, two years before the commonly accepted timeline.

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The answer is actually quite simple: consumers of higher education use prestige as the signal of higher quality because commonly accepted measures of actual student learning do not exist.

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And the very fact that the lawyers in Jones seem to think that a definition was needed means that without such a definition, there is no commonly accepted, no universally agreed upon meaning of this phrase.

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For instance, commonly accepted numbers show that the turnout rate among black male high-school dropouts age 20 to 34 surged between 1980 and 2008, to the point where about one in three were voting in presidential races.

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The report notes that "there is no commonly accepted explanation by criminologists for the fall in violence in many of the world's regions including the US, Western Europe, Eastern and Central Europe, as well as the UK".

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At the present moment, the ace of the Detroit Tigers leads all pitchers in Major League Baseball in the commonly accepted and easily understood statistics such as Wins (23), Strikeouts (238), Innings Pitched (226.1), and Walks Plus Hits Per Innings Pitched (.915).

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Despite a number of randomized clinical trials suggesting that EMDR is at least as effective as other commonly accepted therapies for traumatic disorders (i.e. such as post-traumatic stress disorder), it still viewed as a bit of a fringe procedure by many in the mental health field.

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And it is not too legalistic to point out that a president of the United States should not be convicted of perjury and removed from office over an argument -- a dispute about what is and what is not the commonly accepted meaning of words in his testimony.

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