The common ground between the two parties has shrunk, but it has not quite disappeared.
We must find the common ground on which business, workers, environmentalists, farmers and government can stand together.
We need to put aside the business model of hate, and focus on the common ground of possibility.
The differences can be bridged, the common ground defined and then built upon.
You must find the common ground across different groups to have a hope of getting people aligned around a common approach.
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It is time for our elected lawmakers and leaders to do what true leaders do: Resolve to find the common ground.
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And I don't know, you know, where the common ground is, but...
She delivered an address calling for a strategic partnership between UNESCO and the European Union, building on the common ground shared by the two Organizations.
"I think the common ground clearly exists from a policy standpoint when talking about background checks, " said Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to End Gun Violence.
The common ground of which Republicans speak so warmly is precariously small: passage of free-trade deals, reduced red tape for small business, and tweaks to how unemployment insurance and infrastructure money is doled out.
We encourage the integration of the different ethnic groups to increase the common ground among them but we also respect each community's wish to keep its own space where it can practise its own religion and customs.
But as we work to advance our respective national interest, we have to move on what we seek in common, find the common ground, and I would argue much of our mutual national interest will find common ground.
We think that completing the funding for fiscal year 2011, a fiscal year that's nearly half over, should be a relatively easy task, and that the differences that separate us are not so great that we cannot find the common ground in a way that each side can feel that it accomplished something in getting it done.
And are we willing as Democrats not only to reach out to Republicans but to push back in our own party for people who want extremes, and look for the common ground that's going to get us the success that we need not only for our constituents but for our country in this global community, in this global economy?
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So let me just lay out the substantial common ground in the current bills.
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He said under a Section 2, two doctors and a social worker assessed whether a patient should be detained in the "interest of their health which is the most common ground, or the interest of their safety or the interest of protecting others".
The only common ground between Iran and six world powers seemed to be recognition of how far they still have to go to negotiate a way out of this crisis.
In their condominium deed, we added a clause that the residents would own the common area, the ground floor and part of the mezzanine.
But the meeting yielded no common ground on the chief issue on the table, whether, or how, to extend the soon-to-expire tax cuts pushed through by President George W Bush and the Republicans in 2001 and 2003.
Congress and the President had trouble finding common ground on the budget, and Congress refused to increase the debt limit without some move toward fiscal health.
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Michelle reminds me of this often. (Laughter.) So instead, it is our hope that people of goodwill can pursue their values and common ground and the common good as best they know how, with respect for each other.
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Freemen of the Irish capital have the right to graze sheep on common ground within the city boundaries and Geldof could follow in the footsteps of U2 who brought lambs into St Stephen's Green when they received the honour six years ago.
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The ruling by Judge David Doty yesterday against the NFL provides the NFLPA a leverage shift that they have been looking for in their negotiations towards a new CBA. While the NFLPA celebrates this triumph, it is important to not gloat and focus on the end game: finding common ground with the NFL towards an agreement.
The vote capped days of polarizing debate, as the Senate searched unsuccessfully for common ground on one of the most persistent wedge issues in American public life.
During the bipartisan meeting, the President discussed his desire to find common ground on the need to redefine the federal role in education so that it is more flexible and better focused on responsibility, reform, and results.
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