Sentence examples for for a common language from inspiring English sources

"There was no need for a common language," Mr. Arafat said.

This was the first step in the search for a common language — a most difficult search.

There has never been a time like this when the world was so small, communication so rapid and the need for a common language so fundamental.

Both he and his machine are struggling to understand coded communications for which they have no instinctive key, strangers in a strange land, searching for a common language.

By his mid-teens, young Ludovic had seen enough of man's inhumanity to man to convince him of the need for a common language that would facilitate understanding between peoples.

It tempted composers -- including figures like Sessions, Stravinsky and even Copland -- searching for a common language once tonality irredeemably dissolved (a process that started a few milliseconds after the Big Bang of Bach).

In clinical practice, an appreciation of how to describe stroke recovery in terms of common stroke scales allows for development of a common language between professionals caring for stroke survivors that facilitates comparisons of patients and services.

Mr. McKinney, the civilian contractor, said that even though the stranded passengers, for lack of a common language, had trouble communicating, "everybody's been pretty mellow".

J.S. Mill had already underscored the importance of a common language for a functioning representative government.

However, commerce on the Internet is seriously hindered by the lack of a common language for collaborative commercial activities.

At the same time, we recognized the need for building a common language, for summing up ideas at critical points in time, and for the subtle guidance of participants' responses toward the intended goal of the discussion.