Comparisons with related languages revealed the common elements of grammar and sentence structure and many similarities in vocabulary.
Extralegal maneuvers and the use of force became common elements of politics.
They claimed that common elements of thought could be discerned in grammatical categories of all languages.
The critical common elements of these efforts include a high-level political commitment to disarm, national initiatives to dismantle weapons programs, and full cooperation and transparency.
"Even though the letter writer doesn't have a terrace, he does have an ownership interest in the limited common elements of the building," Mr. Onorato said.
Mr. Krauss notes that the state's condominium law gives the board of managers control of, and the obligation to maintain, the common elements of the condominium.
Because Puerto Rican bonds were widely held and were common elements of many mutual funds the potential ripple impact of the crisis on the U.S. economy was significant.
Common elements of quasi-eremitic monasticism include a loose organizational structure with no administrative links to mother institutions and no external hierarchies.
Koolhaas has built his aesthetic on unexpected juxtapositions, mixing common elements of popular culture with refined, high-end objects, and the SoHo store seems to adhere to a code that most of us aren't privy to.
The plot of Swift's novel involves infidelity, sexual obsession and murder, but its language behaves as if it were telling you things that you might recognise all too well, the common elements of "mid-life disaster".
(Darren Cahr, a lawyer representing the company, said the suit was without merit; in court filings, he says the chair's distinguishing features are in fact common elements of modernist design).
