The North's Monitor design of rotating turrets — once described as "a cheese box on a raft" — and the South's casemate design of sloped sides — "a floating barn, sunken up to the eaves, and lined with cannon ports" — looked nothing alike, but the designs did have common purposes and philosophy.
Movements that have lost common cause have lost common purpose, and with it their ability to organize, inform and create meaningful change.
Thus, members of a critical care list server (i.e. Critical Care Medicine – list) have a common purpose, basically know each other, and have a web master, but the daily integration of ideas allows for the collaborative network.
"We must have a common purpose, a rising national consciousness that having women elected to office is essential," she said, "but that national will is completely and totally lacking here".
"Schools forging partnerships should have a common purpose in what they are doing.
But that does not mean we now have a common purpose".
We may compete like cats in a sack for stories, but, in the end, we have a common purpose.
With so many countries and so many interests represented, can the Socialist Internationalist really have a common purpose?
The Canadian and African grandmothers come from vastly different backgrounds but have a common purpose — to learn how to help African grandmothers raise the millions of AIDS orphans.
"When there's a large number of criminals and anarchists that have a common purpose and intent to break the law, it's very difficult to stop that," he told reporters Thursday.
