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It is common practice for public services to mount in-house bids when offering contracts for public competition.
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"It is common practice across Northern Ireland and Great Britain and across the world, we're not asking for special treatment, " he said.
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It is common practice for large companies in Japan to list their subsidiaries on the stock market, while maintaining a controlling stake thereafter.
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In Belgium, it is common practice for police not to comment on ongoing investigations which may be why the attack was not reported until now.
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The press conference, scheduled for 2:15 PM ET following the release of the FOMC statement at 12:30 PM, is the first of its kind by a Fed chief, though it is common practice for other central banks including the ECB.
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Selling a newly minted stock short isn't a much discussed strategy outside of Wall Street trader circles, but it is a common practice.
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Then we generalized this instance, made it sound as though this is common practice and published the information to all of your readers.
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It turns out the practice is far more common than I imagined.
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Impersonating someone else to obtain phone records is generally illegal in California, where HP is based, though it's common practice for licensed investigators who are assigned to, say, chase down a fugitive from the law.
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"It has not been done in the UK but overseas in the Netherlands this is now common practice, " said Mr Dobma.
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According to a new report by congressional investigators, an insurance company practice of retroactively canceling health insurance is fairly common, and it saves insurers a lot of money.
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