Peter Weir confronted the same issue when he made "Gallipoli" (1981), one poster for which bore the condescending motto "From a place you've never heard of, a story you'll never forget".
Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia and China are rapidly urbanising and confronting the same issues as us.
"They are confronting the same issues as lots of other industrial companies," said one executive involved in the deal.
It turns out, however, that we all tend to worry about the same kind of stuff – and to be more or less unprepared to confront the same issues.
"As architects working with a whole new level of communication," Mr. Kaplan said, "we had to feel some sort of kinship with Ralph Walker, because he was confronting the same issues".
Homeless people confront the same issues every day: how to scrape together meals, keep warm at night by covering themselves with cardboard or tarp, and relieve themselves without committing a crime.
Perhaps it is not much of a surprise that with this one book, the pro-American, publicity-friendly, post-9/11 Hirsi Ali has attracted more news coverage, reviews and readers than the America-ambivalent, pre-9/11 Egyptian writer Nawal El Saadawi, who has been confronting the same issues — clitoridectomy, child marriage, stoning — in novels and memoirs since the late 1950s.
Thus, for all her late-20th-century independence, Sallie Evans, the newly separated narrator of "A Taxpayer and a Citizen," ends up confronting the same issues as many of her predecessors in the collection -- love and abandonment and how to keep one's children safe from harm.
Some engineers in New Orleans have gone so far as to ask Dutch engineers how they confront the same issues in the hopes of using those ideas to develop a more sensible long-term plan.
