These two factors, especially in combination, make efforts to establish common ground extremely difficult.

Jonathan Haidt How common threats can make common ground

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

We have a common ground now.

No, we start by looking for common threats because common threats make common ground.

Common ground is often very hard to find.

Facts on the ground attest to our common endeavours.

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

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

In the Asteroids Club, we don't start by looking for common ground.

3. Any efforts to establish a zone of peace in the Indian Ocean must be focused on finding common ground acceptable to both the external Powers and the Indian Ocean States.

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.

Long and careful exchanges of views revealed considerable common ground among the different participants.

This common ground understanding extends much farther than many have understood in the past.

It did spur me to get better at finding common ground across the regions.

Establish ground rules and deal breakers and stick to the criteria that we set for ourselves.

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.

We must not abandon our efforts to find common ground on those most challenging tasks.

We should promote interchanges in the spirit of seeking common ground while setting aside differences.

There is very little, if any, common ground between the two sides on this question.

I really hope that this complexity perspective allows for some common ground to be found.

I really hope that this complexity perspective allows for some common ground to be found.

That historic summit highlighted the reality that there is much common ground between our two regions.

Instead, the context, the common ground activities, are the content on television that's driving the conversations.

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.

We look forward to Afghanistan's increased participation in the process to establish a regional common market.

The Department of Safety and Security will establish common security policies and standards for the Organization.

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.

But it is also wrong to suggest that there's not a great deal of common ground amongst macroeconomists.

Its language was the result of careful negotiation and compromise and did not reflect completely the national position of any country, as it was intended to establish common ground between all interested parties, including suppliers and recipients of high technology.

The United Nations played a crucial role in international cooperation to establish a common front against terrorism.

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

The resulting decisions could establish clear ground rules to guide future policy toward Europe s increasingly numerous ethnic and religious minorities.

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.

Secondly, the basic positions of the parties remain diametrically opposed with no or at least very little  common ground.

We should therefore concentrate our efforts on solving practical problems and exploiting every possibility to enlarge the common ground.

The effectiveness of the United Nations rests upon the common ground that its Member States are able to achieve.