It was not unusual to see him exchange handshakes, smiles and jokes with men who were his political enemies.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

But the experts said that it was not unusual for ancient Egyptians to eat duck, geese and beef.

VOA: special.2009.12.15

It was not unusual for the love of science to compete with the love of a woman.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

With specially cooled tracks and racing equipment, it is not unusual for luge athletes to reach speeds of one hundred forty kilometers an hour or more.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

So it is not unusual that many popular expressions come from baseball.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

Their ruling, now reversed by the Supreme Court, was not unusual.

VOA: special.2009.07.03

Nina Fedoroff says unfair judgment is not unusual.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

Deaths were not unusual in Roaring Camp.

VOA: special.2009.06.06

Macpherson says the ash cloud is not unusual nor is the eruption of the volcano after 200 years of dormancy.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

Such callousness is not unusual in Juarez, where drug-related violence has claimed the lives of more than four thousand, eight hundreds people since 2008.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

Ademar Barilli says that women traveling alone are especially vulnerable, and that the safe house pays special attention to such cases, although they are not unusual.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

Iranian and U.S.diplomats were aware of one another's presence at the Moscow conference, but said it is not unusual for them to attend the same international forums.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

But General McChrystal has warned that more are needed. On the contested outcome of last month's presidential election in Afghanistan, Spanta said voting "irregularities" are not unusual in emerging democracies and that the Independent Electoral Commission and the U.N.-supported Election Complaint Commission are working to address the complaints and recount some of the ballots.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

She says it remains fresh and unusual because the event does not try to tell society's views about the performing arts.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

The university is unusual. It not only provides laptop computers to all seven thousand of its full-time students.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

Rebecca Skloot points out that this was not an unusual medical practice during this period.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

Martian methane is also unusual because it is not evenly spread over the planet.

VOA: special.2009.12.30

What was unusual was not so much the art but the museum.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

He began finding and training unusual animals, not just dogs and horses.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

The symbol itself might not be so unusual.

VOA: special.2009.10.09

Not everyone liked the unusual design.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

"Often time terrorism is beaten not by the government but by regular people who have the courage to report something unusual to the authorities,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.21