The president's weekly address marks the Jewish holiday of Passover and Christians' celebration of Easter with a call to set aside differences and find strength on common ground.

VOA: standard.2009.04.11

Since mackerel was a common and cheap fish in the United States, it was often eaten for dinner on Friday.

VOA: special.2010.02.14

But he also says they dispute the common belief that Chinese education is centered on repetition and memorization.

VOA: special.2010.12.16

Right now, Adobe Flash Player is probably the most common way to watch media on the Internet.

VOA: special.2010.06.22

She studied communities like farmers in Southern California who depended on a common water supply.

VOA: special.2009.10.16

But lawmakers have yet to find common ground on how to pay for it.

VOA: special.2009.05.15

These are based largely on the common core, but also existing California standards.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

The stories on the screen had little in common with the books.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

"People tend to congregate and be together and the way the common cold virus is transmitted from one person to another is through handshakes,through sneezing, or coughing on one another."

VOA: special.2011.04.20

based on a common mispronunciation of his last name.

VOA: special.2010.10.17

Glycine is very common on Earth.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

Collecting food and medical supplies is a common tool for many Cuban-Americans to offer person-to-person assistance to people on the island.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

Many Filipinos rely on ferries to travel between islands in the Philippines, but accidents are common especially during the monsoon season.

VOA: standard.2009.09.06

"There is common understanding with the DPRK on the need to implement the 2005 joint statement and to resume the six-party process,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

Boarded up windows and doors, police cars,signs to stop violence, young men standing idle are common on the south side of Chicago.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

(OMITTED) May adds that today's Pill has little in common with the one on the market in 1960.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

While such banks are common in Indonesia and Malaysia, they remain on the fringe of Australia's finance sector.

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

A combination vaccine, using strains of HIV common in Thailand,was tested on Thai men and women aged 18 to 30 years old, who were HIV-negative.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

Ostrom's research has focuses on the interaction of people and natural resources and how common property can be successfully managed by those groups using it.

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

Bosnian Foreign Minister Sven Alkalaj said the current political crisis would not adversely impact its role on the council or prevent it from taking common positions.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

But Europe is based on what Europe calls 'common values.' And the common values were established after the war by the founding fathers on Europe on the 'never again."

VOA: standard.2010.04.10

Some of the world's most powerful leaders, along with their finance chiefs are meeting at London's ExCel Center to try to forge common ground on tackling the world's economic crisis.

VOA: standard.2009.04.02