'common fight' is a grammatically correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use this phrase to refer to a shared effort or struggle that two or more people are undertaking together. For example, "The teachers and students are engaged in a common fight for better education in the district."
We have a common fight against corrupt government in PNG and Australia, and a common fight for freedom from tyranny.
The accord's terms "acknowledge that US military operations to defeat al-Qaida and its affiliates may be appropriate in the common fight against terrorism".
Barry Winchell, a 21-year-old private first class, died in what the base command at first labeled a "physical altercation," a common fight.
America's and Israel's common fight against terrorism is one of the reasons why most moderate Republicans, Democrats and independents support Israel's actions, though some also recognize Palestinian grievances in some aspects of the dispute.
This common fight led to the pooling of resources and decision-making in regional water authorities – among the oldest democratic institutions in the world – which continue that work today.
President Obama had hoped to emerge from this week's Group of 8 summit meeting in Italy with a tentative agreement uniting rich and developing nations in a common fight against global warming.
"One of the most common fights over inheritance that I see are fights over a home," said Martin Shenkman, an estate- and tax-planning lawyer with offices in Manhattan and Teaneck, N.J.
It is incumbent on all people living in the West to contribute in defending the liberties and freedoms that previous generations fought hard to garner (see my earlier Psychology Today article "Be Thankful for Your Liberties and Freedoms" as well as my YouTube clip "Don't Succumb to the Tragedy of the Commons, Fight for Liberty!").
(It was once common to fight with a sword in one hand and a dagger in the other, for example).
But in Yemen, as in Afghanistan — another country where child marriage is common — the fight against Communism ended with the triumph of a hard-line form of Islam.
Rather, it is another in the increasingly common, entrenched fights over the value of patents in a high-technology economy.
