The report couched its demands in the same rhetoric invoked by the Indian government, appealing to the shared heritage of Indians.But common descent does not translate into common cause.
I've made much the same point, more offensively: I think of it as a form of affinity fraud, in which these publications (and various web sites too) reach out to readers by appealing to their shared hatred of snooty intellectuals who probably want to take all their money and give it to the 47 percent; since such people also tend to favor monetary and fiscal flexibility, there you have it.
He did not point out the way we use that word merely as an oblique way of appealing to our shared wisdom as to what obligation is.
So Telfer and White, in appealing to such shared sense of value, are offering a somewhat richer sense of the sort of intimacy essential to friendship than Thomas and Annis.
This interference thus allows for a more slack relation between conditions of correctness and utterances that in turn allows Davidson to make sense of the notion of error without appealing to a shared language community.
Whether she was singing about love, heartbreak or other secular pleasures (*cough cough* "Dr. Feelgood" *cough cough*), she possessed an uncanny ability to touch people on a spiritual level by appealing to our shared humanity.
Tracinski noted, "In a country where 99percentt of the population is opposed to Nazis, it should be the easiest thing in the world for an American president to unite the country by appealing to our shared values".
As a start, over the Fourth of July weekend, the committee placed full-page ads in the major East End newspapers appealing to contributors to share the cost of restoring "this unique legacy".
The United States is appealing to other countries to share the military burden of the occupation of Iraq, and President Bush is also signaling his willingness to send American troops to West Africa to help pacify Liberia.
It's appealing to think that the shared, discoverable details of the world are enough, a comfort to believe that having an experience is the same thing as being able to narrate it.
