Sentence examples for only a common from inspiring English sources

And not only a common one but a familiar one, too: a Russia itching to expand its power and influence.

The tragedy has shown that Turks and Kurds share not only a common history, but also a common destiny.

Lombardi wanted to continue the red-shirt draft; Rozelle insisted that the merger required only a common draft.

Mayoral aides and BFC Partners' owner, Donald Capoccia, said the donations reflected only a common concern for gay and lesbian rights.

The run began on Wednesday with the trombonist Josh Roseman and the guitarist Ben Monder: jazz musicians both, though that was only a common dialect.

Only a common patriotic struggle against foreign aggression might overcome the reluctance of the south to unite politically with the north.

Banks received only a common school education and at an early age began work as a bobbin boy in a cotton factory.

This insistence, by both academics and government officials, reflects China's own nervousness about its nationhood: that only a common language will secure a single nation.

For a folly is not only a common human flaw; it is also, as an 18th-­century term has it, a garden pavilion propitious for daydreams.

Although the noncommunists blocked communist policies within the government throughout 1947, they had no common strategy regarding the next election only a common desire to defeat the communists decisively.

Transmission to contact birds did not occur frequently: only A/common magpie/Hong Kong/645/2006 virus was shown to transmit to 1 starling.