The phrase "a common strand of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a shared theme, idea, or element that connects different subjects or topics.
Example: "In examining the various cultures, we found a common strand of respect for nature that transcended geographical boundaries."
Alternatives: "a shared thread of" or "a unifying element of".
One problem with this kind of hedonism is that there does not appear to be a single common strand of pleasantness running through all the different experiences people enjoy, such as eating hamburgers, reading Shakespeare, or playing water polo.
Conservative Roman Catholic legitimism is a common strand in the poetic generation of 1820, and the debt to Chateaubriand's The Genius of Christianity is evident.
This morning I've been reading over the confessions from past Booker judges, like a retired general avidly reading campaign diaries, and Tibor Fischer's is representative of a common strand: "Discussion is futile.
The two cases do have a common strand.
If there's a common strand in Hannon's peculiar CV, it's Europe.
In terms of feeling, I do like when a novel goes to and fro between time and place, which is a common strand between the two.
The book contains revised versions of some of Ross's best pieces from the magazine — on everyone from Mozart to Radiohead — as well as a previously unpublished examination of a few "common strands of musical DNA" that recur throughout five centuries of music history.
A highly unscientific survey of those conversations revealed a few common strands of logic among Bush and Kerry advisers.
Despite variation in the structures, the common strands of the β-sheet aligned well (supplementary Fig S4B online).
In that sense oligomerization would appear to be a common primitive strand of the post-translational UPR, recruiting and inactivating Hsp70 chaperones according to need.
