In a broad sense, most international agreements have the common purpose of safeguarding the sovereignty of signatory nations, in that they seek to further peaceful relations between nations.
Centrality is a key concept in social network analysis [13, 34] and in academic literature there are different indexes of centrality [33, 35, 36] which have the common purpose of "quantify an intuitive feeling that in most networks some vertices or edges are more central than others" [37], p. 16.
Although the three projects were independent, the groups coordinated with one another, and all had the common purpose of unlocking the secrets of hurricane formation and evolution.
This heterogeneous group of drugs includes many products which differ in pharmacological characteristics and mechanism of action, but all of them having the common purpose of stimulating defecation or softening the consistency of faeces in order to facilitate their expulsion (Table 3).
For all their vibrancy, today's young Israelis have forgotten the common purpose of the pioneers, he writes.
The trial judge found that they were not directly involved in the 1984 murder of Sharpeville's black deputy mayor, Kuzwayo Dlamini, regarded by some as a stooge of the white government, but had shared the common purpose of those who stoned Dlamini to death.
And this suspension of reality, by the way, does not only apply to the pop festivals: much of the above could be applied to Glyndebourne or a literary festival; anywhere where people have gathered together with the common purpose of celebration and fun and forgetting.
He had however "justified, defended and praised the common purpose and policies" of the Khmer Rouge that resulted in the atrocities.The ECCC, which is backed by the UN, has been criticised sharply during its nine years in operation.
Mr. Annan said that passing the measure would discredit the council, the United Nations and the "primacy of the rule of law," and he appealed to the 15 members to maintain the common purpose they had shown earlier this month in voting unanimously on a resolution affirming the arrangements for transferring power in Iraq.
As the aircraft was US-registered, pilot and passenger must have a "common purpose" for making the journey, and the pilot must dictate when a flight leaves.
Despite fight after fight in recent months over everything from new sanctions targeting Russian officials for rights abuses to the detention of an American Embassy official this week on charges of espionage, the two diplomats seem to have found common purpose on one of the most intractable disputes between the United States and Russia Syriaa's civil war.
