As Labor Party leader since 1986, he has become a familiar fixture on the national scene.

So it goes on Long Island, where the noise barrier has become a familiar and sometimes contentious fixture of the suburban infrastructure.

A familiar fixture on the local popular music scene, the band specializes in traditional jazz, with some swing and be-bop added for variety.

In a complicated plan that is still short on detail, the city wants to sell off some of its most familiar fixtures - its parking meters.

- a keepsake of this majestic sentinel which had become a familiar fixture in the driveway next to our house.

His tall, elegant silhouette is a familiar fixture at dinner tables.

To be sure, excuses are a familiar fixture on the American business scene.

Water heaters are familiar fixtures in most homes.

Now the city wants to sell off one of its most familiar fixtures - its parking meters.

The need for unanimous resolutions is resulting in the horse-trading that was a familiar fixture in the past.