Interestingly, the passage aligns Xunzi with the Mohists, apparently on the grounds of their shared commitment to a moral Way; the association may also reflect the Mohists' deep influence on Xunzi, mentioned above.
I've learned that relationships are invariably complex but that all parties, whether they be individual people or entire nations, can always find some common ground simply on the basis of their shared humanity.
It was almost certainly this common ground, their shared love of the lyrical, which enabled Owen to take the creative leap he did under Sassoon's influence.
So decades later they were able to peacefully bring their hardware back to the spawning ground of their franchise and share it with their fans.
The common ground of a shared language, Mr. Glaudini subtly suggests, may not be easy to reach or maintain, but is vital in keeping the healthier channels of human relationships functioning.
And yet despite that rather tasty send‑off back to their shared home ground of Edgbaston, here is Woakes, back in whites for his country and, it must be said, looking more like the cricketer with whom the selectors persist; doing so in the hope that his county figures for Warwickshire, as impeccable as his haircut, can translate to Test cricket.
Without an accepted common ground of shared statistics politicians can claim whatever they like.
Or is there some inherent formal difficulty in making jokes — which often depend on the stable ground of shared references — through images?
He sees the loss of possibilities of common ground, of cultural experiences shared by different people.
In conditions of pluralism, therefore, the majority culture cannot serve as the grounding of a shared identity.
