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It is a commonplace that generous welfare is a brake on European economic growth, leading to higher taxes and fewer jobs.
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It is a commonplace that the Christian Heaven, as usually portrayed, would attract nobody.
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Despite such widely variant reactions, it is a commonplace that the Pyongyang's nuclear program is aimed squarely at the United States and its allies.
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It is a commonplace that, among these emerging economies, the most successful are the ones that have educated most of their workers up to, and in many cases well beyond, levels typically achieved in the West.
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It is a commonplace of Jewish-Christian dialogue that both have a common root in the Hebrew Scriptures which Christians call the Old Testament.
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It is becoming a commonplace assumption that the November presidential election will turn on the public's perception of how things are going in the war on terror.
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All these figures arose from a Chicago where corruption is so commonplace that it elicits winks, nods and even a kind of admiration.
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It is a commonplace to say that Russia cannot revert to its Communist past.
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It is a commonplace, but one that most of us ignore: If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
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In doing it, he is giving physicists a taste of a kind of science that has become commonplace in the biotechnology industry.
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It is commonplace now for a work of art to be worth tens of millions of dollars, and that makes them a target for art thieves.
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But that sentiment, maybe polite skepticism is a better way to put it, is commonplace in the tiny coal towns where many of the jobs have disappeared, and whatever is said now is judged alongside the many past promises that help was on the way.
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