The phrase "a common impetus" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a shared motivation or driving force behind actions or events.
Example: "The desire for social change served as a common impetus for the various movements that emerged during the 1960s."
Alternatives: "a shared motivation" or "a collective driving force".
His daughter's 13-year old friend, a 15-year-old aspiring dancer, a seven-year-old autograph-hunter, a 13-year-old waitress; the list goes on and the circumstances vary, although, to Rolf Harris mind, they all share a common impetus of being bold-faced liars who seek to trip a famous man up.
Their goals may have varied, but the common impetus was a spiritual sense of clarity that was thought to be achieved by eating a diet void of flesh.
FDA approval of relevant new drugs is the most common impetus for updating [ 29].
Another field study of nurses in Delhi indicated that the most common impetus for emigration was better income prospects overseas [ 8].
One of the more common impetuses behind reverse splitting is keeping floundering stock prices above the delisting minimum of $1.
After that the move for a state system gained impetus, and a Common Schools Bill was passed in 1862, establishing a system similar to that accepted in New South Wales.
Work on defining a common asylum and immigration policy has received fresh impetus.
This form was known as 'impetus', and was a common theme in the philosophy of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries; some version of an impetus theory goes back to the early thirteenth century (Wood 1992).
Rosaline thus acts as the impetus to bring the "star-cross'd lovers" to their deaths—she is crucial in shaping their fate (a common theme of the play).
SARS not only provided an impetus to further coordinate national efforts in cross-border infectious disease control, it also heightened the understanding of a common vulnerability in the face of global health threats (20).
The shaping mechanism of social networks and the existing cultural and humanistic foundations inject a social impetus to the common development of the South China Sea Rim.
