Jonathan Haidt How common threats can make common ground

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Their feet, too, have touched the ground.

If these two peoples can find common ground to create two states, both democratic and free, after decades of bitterness and bloodshed, the region would have an enormously powerful model of hope.

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.

They have contributed effectively in the search for common ground (identifying those areas that could, even now, largely be set aside as being satisfactorily agreed) and they have been similarly successful in identifying those areas that require further exploration.

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

Common success could make both sides realize that they still have a common cause.

I think that a number of common denominators have emerged this morning, as have some exceptions to those common denominators.

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.

Numerous naval, air, and ground interdiction exercises have been conducted.

Yet they share a root cause, whereby speculative and often narrow interests have superseded the common interest, common responsibilities, and common sense.

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.

It's all over town, many people on ground floors have water.

In Europe, shale energy resources have largely remained in the ground.

Recently, troops riding in ground vehicles have also begun wearing Nomex.

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.

You know, that vegetables are actually colorful, that they have flavor, that carrots grow in the ground, that strawberries grow in the ground.

In this regard, human rights officers and clinics on the ground have pointed to an uneven implementation of this policy on the ground.