Sentence examples for engaged in a common from inspiring English sources
The offence, which is complex to prove, requires 12 people or more to be engaged in a common purpose.
America backed "a stronger Europe", she said, but "as a partner" engaged in "a common effort"—a knock at President Jacques Chirac's repeated calls for a "multipolar world".
Unless the rich and poor encounter one another in everyday life, it is hard to think of ourselves as engaged in a common project.
According to the appellate court's published decision, the trio initially argued that as painters engaged in a common law occupation, they could not be subjected to an excise tax denominated as an income tax.
When asked about Thicke's claims he helped write the music for Blurred Lines, Williams said the singer had engaged in a common practice within the industry for someone to embellish their contribution.
"You can't get nation-building without shared sacrifice," said Sandel, "and you cannot inspire shared sacrifice without a narrative that appeals to the common good — a narrative that challenges us to be citizens engaged in a common endeavor, not just consumers seeking the best deal for ourselves.
Quants engage in a common activity: creating a wide variety of mathematical methods and applying them, via computer algorithms, to the solution of a particular financial problem.
PBL has many forms but typically involves the use of extended, multi-disciplinary projects through which "all students engage in a common project with unclear processes but clearly identified expected outcomes" (Yetkiner et al. 2008, p. 1).
Chance speculates that Rusnak was engaging in a common spread or arbitrage transaction, which is designed to have profits one side of a trade offset losses on the other side.
Wood's 42-minute video shows him documenting the march and the police engaging in a common law-enforcement tactic known as "kettling," where a cordon of officers surround a crowd to physically confine them in a small space in hopes of dispersal or arrest.
Organisations, big and small, are acknowledging the long-term potential in a workforce that is engaged in a shared common goal, rather than focusing on the bottom line of profit and loss alone.
