But Mr. Moffat has also given him a flair for inventive phrases that define common experiences.
Companies quickly realise that they need to define common standards for things like point-of-sale and inventory information, so that each can interpret the other's material.
The road had also been paved for Mr. Santorum by evangelical Protestants and conservative Catholics, who for decades had tried to define common theological and political ground.
Lucie Faucherre, junior policy analyst, Gender Equality and Women's Rights OECD, Paris, France, @luciefaucherre Lucie supports the work of GenderNet, the only international forum where gender experts from the donor agencies and foreign ministries meet to define common approaches.
It's hard to define common interests between the United States and the leadership of the Afghan Taliban, but a desire to contain and manage ISI's involvement in the war and in any political tracks is probably one such common interest.
Throughout the process, Mr. Harvey said that his group's toughest tasks have been to help define common goals for residents and to battle the cynicism developed by years of governmental neglect and failed projects.
Instead, these packages define common meta-model elements that constitute the infrastructure for other packages.
This work could be a basis for the biomedical engineers in order to make it easier to define common practices and to share knowledge and abilities.
Finally, and surprisingly, students who were asked to define common ancestor before responding to the statements (version C) were less likely to agree that pairs of organisms had a common ancestor than those not asked to define common ancestry before responding (version D).
A relatively simple way of defining common knowledge is not to partition the group of agents into subsets with different common 'knowledges' but only to define common knowledge for the entire group of agents.
Schiffer's general approach was to augment a system of sentential logic with a set of knowledge operators corresponding to a set of agents, and then to define common knowledge as a hierarchy of propositions in the augmented system.
