Jonathan Haidt How common threats can make common ground

On the high ground, freezing weather is common in winter.

Thesis Lewis, an Anglican, intended to describe the Christian common ground.

China is clearly seeking to exploit India s political disarray to alter the reality on the ground.

Having sociability means taking actions with the responsibility of being on common ground.

Oddly, Hamas and Israel might have more common ground than Israel and the PLO.

We all know that there was difficulty finding common ground on some sensitive issues.

The common ground of reform is the need to re regulate the financial services industry.

Instead, it could look to established principles that may provide common ground for further deliberations.

The document should, as one speaker put it, be a beachhead of common ground from which we launch ourselves forward with urgency and common purpose.

Those events demonstrate that there can be common ground when both sides are willing to work constructively.

The good old days when Trotskyites and Socialists found common ground in bashing the United States are over.

There may be a common ground of inner distress culminating in self directed harm in a Münchausen patient.

That decision showed the willingness of all delegations to find common ground and achieve an effective protective regime.

Emphasizing the need to acknowledge and respect the richness of all civilizations and to seek common ground among civilizations in order to address comprehensively common challenges facing humanity,

Identification and promotion of common ground among civilizations in order to address common challenges threatening shared values, universal human rights and achievements of human society in various fields

Even respecting the idiosyncrasies of each context, there is still sufficient common ground for more precision in the agreements.

As we move forward, we urge Court supporters to reciprocate our efforts to seek common ground and avoid divisiveness.

It should be possible for each side to respect the other s position without abandoning its ownand to find common ground.

Presidents Bush and Putin have come to common ground on some important issues connected also to security and non proliferation.

It undercuts self righteousness, radically alters the tone and character of controversy, and enriches dramatically the possibilities for finding common ground.

The US now has an opportunity to establish new ways to explore common ground and reach a more durable political solution.

We can build a world in larger freedom but to do it we must find common ground and sustain collective action.

The EU could work towards a common arms export policy by seeking a shared understanding of the predictability and stability of third party countries.

Think of mass media as providing common ground and you have the recipe for taking this idea to a whole new place.

Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common they are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause.

Dialogue with the US could focus on areas, such as Iraq and Afghanistan, where the two parties share a measure of common ground.

On challenges ranging from election monitoring to the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty, there is no common ground among the 56 member states.

My delegation reaffirms the need for Member States to strive to find common ground on the issue of the expansion of the Council's membership.

For our part, we are ready to work towards building the necessary common ground, which will render possible the re launching of meaningful negotiations.

There must be a sustained effort to listen to each other to learn from each other to respect one another and to seek common ground.

It can effectively link discourse and action, generate widespread campaigns, and forge common ground among rights activists, public intellectuals, and all kinds of Twitter users.

It is time that we began to hold some common ground and use it as a beachhead from which to launch our drive for progress.

Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none cut it down why cumbereth it the ground?

But neither side seized the opportunity to build on this common ground, and today US Iran relations are as antagonistic as they have been in years.

Judging from the blogosphere, it seems that South Africans are weary of being labeled and truly long to find common ground. Ryland Fisher articulates these feelings

In conclusion, the international community has long been collaborating to find common ground for ensuring safe transport and the sustainable use and management of marine resources.

(iii) Free Flight Rockets (ground to ground and air to ground)

Solidarity and predictability in international relations, based on common institutions and common interests, would ensure Europe s prosperity and stability much more effectively than had the traditional balancing act of high wire diplomacy, whose practitioners had too often crashed to the ground.

Despite clashes with police and coordinated police crackdowns on the protests, with six civilian deaths so far and thousands injured, the protesters often talk and interact with police agents during the protests, sometimes finding a common language and common ground.

The United States had hoped this autumn to see a thoughtful redrafting of the draft resolution emphasizing areas of common ground. Instead, the new draft resolution acknowledges the Group of Governmental Experts, but not its failure, and seeks to cover the same ground.

In 1998, during the Asian financial crisis, instead of engaging in beggar thy neighbor devaluations and financial protectionism, countries found common ground to guard against future crises.

Nevertheless, the near universality of the Treaty should continue to be a source of optimism and a sign of common ground regarding the elimination of nuclear weapons.

(i) Two ground to ground systems

As international bureaucracies with a penchant for best practices and common standards, these institutions are woefully unsuited to the task of seeking innovative, unique pathways suited to each country s particular circumstances.