173 examples of common ground in sentences

Not only have poetic and rhetoric for him a common ground in diction, but the ideal of diction is the same for both.

For if we are ignorant, not merely of the results of experimental science, but of the methods thereof, then we and the men of science shall have no common ground whereon to stretch out kindly hands to each other.

What pleasure could they find in the company of people with whom their only common ground is just what is lowest and least noble in their own naturethe part of them that is commonplace, trivial and vulgar?

Beyond the three-mile limit, the ocean is "common ground," belonging not to one nation but to all.

In this sisterhood of mercy they all three stood upon the same common ground.

Rich and poor Romans met here on the common ground of narrow pride, and the offence caused by this wise project probably paved the way for the tribune's fall.

We fly with eagerness to some common ground in which each can take the liveliest interest, without taking the slightest in the world in his companion.

Accordingly, Christians were required, without respect of persons, to do each other justiceto maintain equality as common ground for all to stand uponto cherish and express in all their intercourse that tender love and disinterested charity which one brother naturally feels for another.

Servants were permitted to unite with their masters three times in every year in celebrating the Passover, the feast of Weeks, and the feast of Tabernacles; every male throughout the land was to appear before the Lord at Jerusalem with a gift; here the bond and the free stood on common ground.

The barbarians thinking them near would strike the empty air in vain and when they reached common ground would be wounded in the shadow where they were not expecting it.

Far apart now in their points of view, the expensively nurtured Merle, and Wilbur, who had grown as he would, whose education was of the street and the open, they found a common ground and rejoiced in their contact.

Twas in this famous organisation that noblemen and wits met on common ground, drank many a toast to the House of Hanover or to some reigning belle of London town, and exercised a patronising censorship over the world of letters.

R121871, 10Dec53, May R. Beaumont (W) BEAUMONT, MAY R. Common ground.

(In Common ground, spring 1948)

(In Common ground, winter 1949)

(In Common ground, summer 1949)

(In Common ground, winter 1945) © 8Dec44; B661198.

in Harper's magazine in Feb. 1945; 1 in Common ground, summer 1945; 2 in Poetry in Nov. 1944.

(In Common ground, summer 1947)

(In Common ground, autumn 1948)

(In Common ground, autumn 1948)

Why cannot 'experience' and 'reason' meet on this common ground?

[Footnote 3: In speaking of this common ground, and in commenting upon it, I wish not to be understood that I consider these truths as comprising all that is essential in Christianity.

Genius is supreme in proportion as it does that, and becomes the interpreter of every man who is born into the world, makes him know his brotherhood with all, and the incorporation of his fate in the scheme of law, and ideal achievement under it, which is the common ground of humanity.

So that there is as yet no common ground of comparison.

173 examples of  common ground  in sentences