As a woman of common sense and a member of Mensa - I find it ridiculous, because I know better.
Now the European Commission is arguing that, with tobacco advertising bans in nearly half of the EU member states, common rules are necessary in Europe's single market.
This effectively aligns 26 of the 27 member countries with a common discipline and integration.
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It says there should be a common approach to research funding across member states when the next seven year MFF starts in 2013.
There is no compelling reason in your non-federal framework, on issues other than those bearing directly on the functioning of the Union, for member states to have common positions in international organisations.
While there are differences of opinions regarding Georgia, Scheffer said member states "share common security interests, " including stability in Afghanistan, arms control, nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and concerns over drug trafficking, piracy and terrorism.
The Secretary-General added that he would do all he could to fulfil his responsibilities to coordinate closely with Member States on a common, effective and timely response, as mandated by Security Council resolution 1973 (2011), which had been passed a day earlier, on 17 March.
"We think that Europe has big problem coping with the euro as a common currency, since there are member countries of the eurozone which have big competitiveness problems, and which actually need a devaluation and can't have it, " he said, citing Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal and France as examples.
All of the 63 projects will be financed from the IPDC Special Account, a common funding pool of donations by UNESCO Member States, which enables the Programme to ensure a global and strategic approach to media development.
But even as I assume once more the solemn duty of this Presidency, let us also remember that the oath I spoke shares much in common with those taken by every service member and every immigrant, and with the pledge we make before our flag.
We welcomed increasing regional cooperation under the U.S.-Lower Mekong Initiative (LMI) in the areas of energy security, health, agriculture and food security, education, connectivity, environment and water, which significantly contributes to quality of life and capacity building among the Lower Mekong Basin countries, and supports ASEAN's aim of narrowing the development gap among its Member States and addressing the common challenges.
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For one, it has a common central bank that automatically transfers reserves between member states, thereby avoiding the modern equivalent of a country running out of gold.
"There's a lot of common ground, " Sandra Froman, a member of the NRA board of directors and a former president of the group, said at the town hall.
Boeheim, meanwhile, says that, yes, he feels intense loyalty to the Big East, the conference that started with seven northeastern teams in 1979 and was bound together with the promise of short road trips, member schools with a lot in common and a focus on basketball in a football-centric college landscape.
The numbers did not surprise Paul Sullivan, a member of the board of Veterans for Common Sense, a nonprofit advocacy group.
What makes the business unique, Winebaum says, is a tool that lets price-sensitive users compare the rates that member dentists in their area charge for common procedures.
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The commonest, about 60% of the total, are home-owner associations: a house buyer also becomes a member of an association that owns the common areas, levies dues and sets rules.
There are 27 member states, but a few countries have common languages, such as German, French and Dutch.
Alexis Bowater, the chief executive of a British charity, the Network for Surviving Stalking, is campaigning for European Union countries to adopt a common approach to stalking: only 12 out of 27 member states have specific laws against it.
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The ministers from the 15-member EU - who are trying to agree their common immigration policy - asked the European Commission to come up with concrete proposals for financing both voluntary and forced repatriation.
In 1975, fifteen private colleges created a common first-year application form for use by any of its member institutions.
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It reminded me that the people I interact with professionally and personally are individuals that behave in a certain manner for reasons that I cannot fathom but must channel, funnel, or mold into a productive member of my team so that we can achieve a common goal.
Under the lottery program, visas are made available to applicants from countries with low rates of immigration to the U.S. Lottery winners have a chance at moving to the U.S. without a family member or an employer as a sponsor, the most common routes to obtaining a green card.
The 55 member companies of Mr Arscott's association are about to launch common guidelines for health-care projects.
Common details between the three killings, plus a lead from an email exchange between a member of Mr. Merah's family and one of the victims, brought his name to the top of a list of suspects, police said.
The Common Cause good-government group also seeks a public accounting of Silver and how each Assembly member votes on his leadership.
The prospect of Bridgend-educated Maria Miller, the current UK Minister for Disabled People, and MP for Basingstoke as the new Welsh Secretary doesn't fill them with wild enthusiasm - but mention the member for Clwyd West stepping up from deputy to the Cabinet table and the most common reaction is akin to that of an ice cube running down their backs.
There was then a full year of committee hearings at the Council of Ministers, with officials from the different member states, including Defra in the UK, battling it out to reach a "common position".
Unlike other major central banks, including the Bank of England and the US Federal Reserve, the Bank of Canada's six-member governing council makes its decisions by consensus rather than votes and present verdicts as a common decision, thereby avoiding being labelled hard or soft on policy.
Even within the European Union, member states are split in ways that have made it impossible for the organisation to form a common ministerial view.
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