The phrase "a common cause that" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing shared motivations or reasons behind actions or events.
Example: "There is a common cause that unites us all in our efforts to combat climate change."
Alternatives: "a shared reason that" or "a mutual cause that".
"The idea is that differences don't matter as long as there is a common cause that links us together".
The women respond so quickly to a common cause that soon they see this as a way to help the community at large, and the nation.
That's what leadership is about: helping people find moments of greatness within themselves, and attaching those to a common cause that allows work to be done.
Whether through thought or feeling, reason or emotion, or science or scripture, there is a common cause that binds us.
Perhaps to the administration's surprise, just because India has some common cause with the US, a common cause that needs to be developed, with regard to China does not at all mean it concurs with regard to its longtime friends in Moscow.
So if people with depression show classic sickness behaviour and sick people feel a lot like people with depression – might there be a common cause that accounts for both?
One's mind immediately leaps to Gerald Ratner ("People say, 'How can you sell this for such a low price?' I say, 'Because it's total crap'") or to Johnny Rotten's comments when the Sex Pistols reunited for their Filthy Lucre tour ("We still hate each other with a vengeance. But we've found a common cause, and that's your money …").
The disease could on the other hand be caused by a common cause if that cause produces susceptibility for a second hit later in life; should this be the case one would expect low to moderate association for the prenatal exposure if data were not stratified on the second set of causes.
The reason was that the crises had a common cause: excessive debt that could be corrected only by a long period of deleveraging.
It chimed with conversations I'd had previously with Barack himself: this sense that you could connect very different people to a common cause - and that's been manifest in his campaign.
The model considers two hypotheses, either that there is a common cause or that there are independent causes.
