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After a decade of underground art growing its roots during the 1990s, the Chinese art market burst into full flower in the early 2000s.Members of this younger generation will inevitably come to be defined more by their differences than their commonalities , and are newly confident to make art that ostensibly has nothing to do with China.
As he frankly stated, reverence for Abraham or Ibrahim is often cited as a common denominator between Jews, Christians and Muslims; but in fact ideas about the patriarch highlight big differences as well as commonalities.
For example, he has spoken of the commonalities between his own faith, Russian Orthodoxy, and Islam.
Cultural commonalities do explain the bulk of American-Israeli cosiness but to suggest that Israel's effort to "tear up terrorist networks" is in America's national interest is off track.The Palestinian terrorists do not have "global reach" and thus, by George Bush's definition, do not terrorise America.
Interviewed in his office, beneath pictures of his guiding lights (Plato, Sun Tzu, the Buddha), Mr Ta says that there are "commonalities " among Asian-Americans but that the term does not mean much to him.Westminster, part of a stretch of Orange County known as "Little Saigon" since the arrival of thousands of war refugees in the mid-1970s, is 40% Vietnamese.
But to penetrate the details to the point that you can see the commonalities between, say, different forms of bank money, so you can see what's really going on, requires an understanding of the institutional detail which is not, I think, widely appreciated.
But that, says Sharon Rosen, could be a reason why progress is so scant.The trick in all peacemaking is to find new commonalities , says Ms Rosen, an adviser to Search for Common Ground, a non-government body dedicated to conflict resolution and prevention.
In a book whose main title—"No Peace Without Prayer"—is self-explanatory, the learned monastic author compares the direct experience of God sought by the Sufis with his own Benedictine tradition; and he finds commonalities and differences in Christian and Muslim views of Jesus, of Abraham/Ibrahim and of the revealed word of God in general.
The differences between them dwarf the commonalities.
You need a minimum of commonalities.
Although there is a great deal of variety from one Melanesian pidgin to the next, their patterns of pronunciation and stress have clearly been affected by broad commonalities among the Melanesian languages.
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The primary grammatical function of "commonalities" is as a plural noun . It refers to the shared characteristics, features, or interests between two or more things. As Ludwig AI confirms, it's grammatically correct and usable in English.
Expression frequency: Very common
