As a number of posters have pointed out, it's a vague, ill-defined term, and yet it's also true to say that we use it all the time in a way that finds common agreement.
Negotiations resumed in June 2007 but again broke down when the so-called Group of Four the U.S., the EU, India, and Brazil were unable to find common ground for agreement.
While the US and Russia had not previously been able to find common ground for agreement on a resolution on the Syrian crisis at the Security Council, suddenly both reached a deal shortly after US President Barack Obama picked up the phone and called Rouhani on Friday noon.
Despite failed attempts to find common ground and an agreement over the past few years at meetings in Copenhagen and Doha, we need to start the dialogue now.
"It would be our hope that we can find common ground for an agreement to build a replacement terminal building," Feger said.
The components were: 1) level of participation and involvement that the respondents feel patients' should have within the consultation; 2) continued use of a paternalistic style of interaction; 3) necessity to find common ground and be in agreement over decisions; 4) perceived benefits of partnership in medicine taking; and 5) equality and shared control within the interaction.
He strove to find common ground, some sort of temporary agreement between family members to help to see them through the first awful hours.
When an effort to find common ground in the Murray Hill agreement (1900) between the International Association of Machinists and the National Metal Trades Association failed within a year, the die was cast: a quarter-century of bitter industrial warfare ensued.
Reviving the Medicaid issue will only make it harder to find common ground on areas where bipartisan agreement is possible, such as job creation and veterans affairs, Cox said.
Only then can we begin to find common ground and outline steps toward an agreement.
