Many multinational companies treat bonuses or long-term incentives on a common global basis, but set basic pay locally.
Under Common Law (the basis for most of the English speaking world) we can write a contract to do pretty much anything.
The World Values Survey divides the world into big cultural zones (the Confucian zone, the English-speaking zone, etc) on the basis of common values.
But by comparing differences found - and in particular, differences between large groups of people with a particular disease and groups of healthy individuals - scientists are now able to investigate the genetic basis of common diseases.
But experts say it's a common misconception that has no basis in fact.
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Upon the completion of all portions of the new capital raising plan, common shareholders will own about 5.5% of common stock on a diluted basis.
Unlike in constituency contests, where candidates can issue personal election addresses, in the new system they have to campaign on the basis of a common manifesto.
The debate that followed focused on the importance of communication in a world of information overflow, and the need for deeper and stronger dialogue on the basis of a common humanity.
"In our talks with Brahimi and with our American colleagues, we are trying to feel a way out of this situation on the basis of our common plan of action that was agreed on in Geneva in June, " Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said, according to state-run RIA Novosti.
That must always form the basis upon which we find common ground.
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That hope rests on no theoretical basis or empirical results and defies common sense.
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Our study confirms that atrial fibrillation is common among older adults and provides a contemporary basis for estimates of prevalence in the United States.
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"Anyone with any common sense could have seen there was no basis to this case, from a serial complainer well versed in making malicious and vexatious complaints, " he said.
Earlier this year, there were 3.25 million shares outstanding and 1.4 million preferred shares convertible into common stock on a one-for-one basis.
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Several variations were peddled, but all had this in common: Technical rules are manipulated to create an artificially high basis in a partnership.
This will also provide an opportunity for the ESM to receive loans to purchase sovereign debt in an almost unlimited capacity, effectively mutualising debt between countries (effectively creating a common Eurobond) while expanding capacity to purchase on an unlimited basis.
Lastly, when I am talking about our environment as the basis for our hopes, our shared life in common, I believe that the only paradigm for our development in these conditions, despite any scepticism we may have, is freedom and the sovereignty of the individual.
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At the heart of the act is assistance for small businesses (SMEs), such as the the possibility of a common tax base for SMEs that operate on a cross-border basis.
So I wonder whether a common agreement to avoid all cash in bonus payments might not form the basis of some kind of truce with ministers.
Common sense also is enough to tell you that there cannot be any basis for charging a witness with perjury on the ground that you disbelieve his testimony about his own subjective belief in a definition of a term used in a civil deposition.
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But he or she is expected to chair EU summits, take on some of the functions of the current presidency of the Council of the European Union - held on a rotating six-month basis by EU heads of government - and represent the EU on common foreign and security policy.
"She shows a number of characteristics common in individuals who hoard, frequently shopping, visiting car boot sales on a weekly basis, " the judge said.
"It's especially common in primary races in which the candidates are unlikely to be easily distinguishable on the basis of their policy preferences, " said Costas Panagopoulos, director of the Center for Electoral Politics and Democracy at Fordham University.
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The criminal law should once again be more like the common law, with judges and juries not merely finding fact but making law on the basis of universal principles of fairness, circumstance, and seriousness, and crafting penalties to the exigencies of the crime.
The most common reason: They misstated what they had paid for the security, that is, their basis.
The company says the plaintiffs experts can prove a common pattern of discrimination since pay and promotion decisions are made on a store-by-store basis.
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The courts may eventually address some of the access and usage issues in the context of existing common law and statutory privacy torts, but this is a long process developed on a case by case basis.
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We have to work on a collaborative basis, not because we're going to compromise our principles, but because there's common ground.
Labour had looked at having a Bill of Rights and Responsibilities as the basis of a written constitution - the then Justice Secretary Jack Straw believed a written statement of "common values" would help social cohesion.
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