Nonetheless, the now retired Harvard professor of English has brought "the common reader"— Johnson's term — an exceptionally lively introduction to late 18th-century English thought and literature.
A federal appeals court in Philadelphia has brought some welcome common sense to the thorny question of how to judge patent cases in which brand-name drug companies pay substantial sums to generic competitors who then delay bringing their drug to market.
And the clear facts, we have to face it, are that while the common market is a success story – it works, it has increased prosperity, it has brought us together – the common currency is precisely the reverse.
This has brought agreement on a common set of ROI metrics and helped facilitate decision making about investing in short-term sales versus brand equity.
Even his harshest critics, who accuse him of despotism and corruption, concede that he has brought a sense of common nationhood to the country's nearly 60 ethnic groups.
Firstly the shift to mass higher education in England and the other home countries, although two decades behind the American expansion, has brought shared problems and common worries, notably in relation to access, funding and quality.
The surge has brought within it two common opinions.
Peter Pronovost has brought a scientifically rigorous, common-sense approach to eliminating medical errors and unnecessary harm, shaping in the process the national conversation about patient safety.
The inability of the two sides to find common ground has brought the passage of legislation to a virtual halt.
Paul Polman, chief executive of the Anglo Dutch conglomerate, said: We tend to forget all the good things that the common market has brought, also to Britain, and take that for granted and then only focus on the things that need to be changed and portraying that as bad.
