On the soccer field, feelings are not much warmer, but at least in the setting of the Women's World Cup, the teams and players meet on common ground, if for only 90 minutes.
They hail from different but interconnected regions of the modern-jazz continuum, so when they meet on common ground -- as they did for a Nonesuch album a few years ago, and during a subsequent week at the Blue Note -- their rapport can feel winningly open-ended, subject to a host of internal adjustments.
He and Dürer's singular painting meet on common ground.
In a sense, her drawings allow her sculptural, painterly and architectural skills to meet on common ground.
But Deutsche Bank has not only refused to meet with Common Ground; it has snubbed high ranking state and local officials.
By using dialogue and promoting education, people can then meet on common ground and understand each other as fellow citizens and human beings.
In his brother Modest's opinion, Tchaikovsky's relations with the Saint Petersburg group resembled "those between two friendly neighboring states... cautiously prepared to meet on common ground, but jealously guarding their separate interests".
Future 500, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that forges alliances between conservatives, progressives, corporations, and activists, is an informal clearinghouse that helps these erstwhile adversaries find one another, and meet on common ground.
All we have to do is agree that there must be a line somewhere, and then we might meet on common ground, and engage in the challenging, but manageable job of deciding where exactly to draw the line.
By focusing on the issues that unite instead of divide, and organizing with other citizens who meet on common ground, we can reject the status quo and its servants.
When you meet on common ground again, take this as the new starting point, not their distorted one.
