While Mexican restaurants can be found in many parts of North America, Europe and in many cities around the world, restaurants outside of Mexico often feature non-traditional ingredients, such as grated American-style cheese, " nacho " cheese or tomato-based sauce substitutes for Mexican chile-based sauces or mole, or the common use in the United States of hard-shelled tacos instead of the Mexican style " soft " or fresh tortillas.

The National Center for Education Statistics ( NCES ) acknowledges there is no precise definition for non-traditional student, but suggests that part-time status and age are common elements.

It is one of Brock's two non-traditional style residences, where 5 students in three single-rooms and one double-room share a common living space, as well as a kitchen.

Quarry View, like Village, is a non-traditional residence where students have a common living area and kitchen.

In contemporary use, it is now common to see coloured bow ties and cummerbands, often matching, but this is considered non-traditional.

The availability of computers and the proliferation of data gathering about individuals has made possible calculations that are more voluminous and intensive than those used in the past ( i. e. they crunch more numbers ) and it is more common to attempt to provide different tables for different uses, and to factor in a range of non-traditional behaviors ( e. g. gambling, debt load ) into specialized calculations utilized by some institutions for evaluating risk.

Most commands have traditional service affiliations, but in recent years, non-traditional appointments have become more common.

Custom paint jobs were common, often in non-traditional or garish colors like pink, purple or orange, with special touches such as using two colors of paint ( for the upper and lower parts of the body ), metal flake or pearlescent paint, or pinstriping.

The most common non-traditional colours are purple and blue.

The most common are the twist drill, the solid center shaft with interchangeable cutting blades, the double spur bit, and the power wood bit.

This switch established phenotypes common in perennial plants, such as wood formation.

Heinrich Göppert named the common amber-yielding pine of the Baltic forests Pinites succiniter, but as the wood does not seem to differ from that of the existing genus it has been also called Pinus succinifera.

In one common challenge students are divided into groups and given a quantity of wood sticks, a distance to span, and glue, and then asked to construct a bridge that will be tested to destruction by the progressive addition of load at the center of the span.

In modern manufacturing, the most common bead materials are wood, plastic, glass, metal, and stone.

The most common examples are kerosene, diesel, petrol, charcoal, coal, wood, etc.

The destructive distillation of wood to give methanol is the root of its common name – wood alcohol.

A 5A is a common wood tipped rock stick, heavier than a 7A but with a similar profile.

Some authorities claim the word derives from the Late Latin phrase forestam silvam, meaning " the outer wood "; others claim the term is a latinisation of the Frankish word * forhist " forest, wooded country ", assimilated to forestam silvam ( a common practise among Frankish scribes ).

Such knitting needles may be made out of any materials, but the most common materials are metals, wood, bamboo, and plastic.

The most common was a natural wood yoke formed from a tree banch.

The wood varies by instrument, but Sitka Spruce ( Picea sitchensis ) is the most common wood used for the soundboard.

Unlike other common energy storage in prior use such as wood or coal, electricity must be used as it is being generated, or converted immediately into another form of energy such as potential, kinetic or chemical.

Classic oars were made out of wood, but modern oars are made from more expensive and durable synthetic material, the most common being carbon fiber.

The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica remarks that ' hood ' was a common dialectical form of ' wood '; and that the outlaw's name has been given as " Robin Wood ".

Agrawal argues that the wood piece is a common find, given that 20, 000 years ago the Arabian Sea was 100 meters lower than its current level, and that the gradual sea level rise submerged entire forests.

Less common are stems made of reeds, bamboo, or hollowed out pieces of wood.

Less common uses include pyrography ( burning designs into wood ) and plastic welding.

Starting in the 1940s, skis built up from a number of different types of wood glued together became common.

Although wood hulls are still in production, the most common construction material is fibreglass, followed by aluminium, steel, carbon fibre, and ferrocement ( rarer because of insurance difficulties ).

Smoking can be done with wood or charcoal, although many common commercial smokers use a gas, such as propane, to heat up a box of wet wood chips enough to cause smoke.

While the monist forces have led to a fusion between some of the goddesses ( 108 names are common for many goddesses ), centrifugal forces have also resulted in new goddesses and rituals gaining ascendance among the laity in different parts of Hindu world.

This primary strength served him well in gaining the support of the common people and surrounding himself with capable generals.

Misconceptions about the countertenor voice were common at the time Deller was first gaining significant notice as a singer, which was only a matter of decades after the last castrati had died ; Michael Chance tells the story that once, a French woman, upon hearing Deller sing, exclaimed " Monsieur, vous êtes eunuque "— to which Deller replied, " I think you mean ' unique ,' madam.

A year later, when the common law courts were each gaining a judge, he repeated his proposal, but the bill was strongly opposed by judges who maintained that the court backlog did not justify the additional expense of a fourth judge.

In addition to being quite common in the United States and Canada, jerky is also gaining popularity in supermarkets, convenience stores and online retailers.

* Analytical scale columns ( 4. 6 mm ) have been the most common type of columns, though smaller columns are rapidly gaining in popularity.

In the early 1920s, the College ’ s growth led its president, James A. Blaisdell, to call for “ a group of institutions divided into small colleges — somewhat of an Oxford type — around a library and other utilities which they would use in common .” This would allow Pomona to retain its small, liberal arts-focused teaching while gaining the resources of a larger university.

Though the means of gaining influence are common, their aims vary from political, economic, to personal.

Paintings, pottery, and their statues are still common in households across China, and are even gaining some popularity world wide.

Open-end funds are most common, but exchange-traded funds have been gaining in popularity.

They also regularly share time among other avian creatures, gaining additional safety through numbers: storks, spoonbills, egrets, herons and ducks are all common companions during feedings and flights.

Shaftesbury was now gaining a great reputation amongst the common people as a Protestant hero.

Ray optics is the very first type of optics most of us encounter in our lives ; it's simple to conceptualize and understand, and works very well in gaining a baseline understanding of common optical devices.

Also, since the same fee can be collected by anyone finding and returning the bottle, it is common for people to collect these and return them as a means of gaining a small income.

The maniple fell out of common use with the 1970 post conciliar liturgical reform, but is gaining in popularity in many circles and is used today in the context of the Tridentine Mass, in which it is required by rubrics, and in some Anglo-Catholic and other parishes.

Marx and Engels formulated theories regarding the practical way of achieving and running a socialist system, which they saw as only being achieved by those who produce the wealth in society, the toilers, workers or " proletariat ", gaining common ownership of their workplaces, the means of producing wealth.

These are the most common way of gaining this right, however technically arms can also be gained: by a grant from the Crown, by prescription ( meaning in use since time immemorial ), by succeeding to an office or by marriage.

There, at the fashion capital of the world, mascara was quickly gaining popularity and common usage.

As residential use of electricity became more common in the early 20th century, electric trains gained popularity and as time went on, these electric trains grew in sophistication, gaining lighting, the ability to change direction, to emit a whistling sound, to smoke, to remotely couple and uncouple cars and even load and unload cargo.

Some of the more common ways of thinking about gaining competitive advantage are:

4. Kf1 followed by 5. Nf3, driving the queen away and gaining a tempo ; however, 3 ... Nf6 is far more common in modern practice.

In some cases repeated attacks lead to the sufferer gaining a fear of sleeping or resting, as this is the most common time for attacks to take place, and this can lead to the development of sleeping disorders such as insomnia.

The lengthening, or gaining of extra digits is common in marine reptiles, and within the theropods digit lengthening occurred at least once.

This is also known as a " Blitz Beater " or " Blitz " for short because it's almost always used against a blitz-heavy defense, also called that because when you can tell a blitz is coming, this is a common play called to counter it, and the overpursuing nature of the blitz leaves the running back, and then the quarterback wide open with the possibility of gaining huge chunks of yardage.