Certainly you could find common strands.
A highly unscientific survey of those conversations revealed a few common strands of logic among Bush and Kerry advisers.
However, another significant aspect of the movement – dismissed as being woolly – was that it brought like-minded people together and allowed a dialogue which identified common strands.
All generalities are perilous, but there are common strands to three plays by Abi Morgan, Zinnie Harris and Sue Glover, all at the Traverse: a fascination with the oblique and unresolved, with the confrontation of opposed worlds, with a peripheral view of political realities.
The book contains revised versions of some of Ross's best pieces from the magazine — on everyone from Mozart to Radiohead — as well as a previously unpublished examination of a few "common strands of musical DNA" that recur throughout five centuries of music history.
Duckworth; £20In a quest that takes him from the grim battlefronts of Armenian-controlled Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan to secret encounters with Turkic-speaking Uighur nationalists in China, Hugh Pope seeks to unearth the common strands that link the 140m Turkic speakers across the globe.
The grand cities of Mumbai and New York differ from each other in a million ways, but are brought together by a few common strands – their entrepreneurial spirit, their dynamic "always on-the-go" nature, their lively sidewalks, their gorgeous coastlines, the diversity of their residents who bring unique culture and religion and their vibrant music scene.
Whatever version of reality the jury settles on, the Espada trial, as seedy as its details are, has common strands with the case argued this week in the United States Supreme Court over the constitutionality of the national health care reform act that became law in March 2010.
After analyzing 129 children between the ages of three and six 47 of whom had been diagnosed with depression, and 82 who hadn't—researchers found two common strands among children who remained depressed into early adolescence: a noticeably smaller right anterior insula and, in 55percentt of cases, some deep and pathological guilt about all those lamps they keep breaking.
After analysing 129 children between the ages of three and six – 47 of whom had been diagnosed with depression, and 82 who hadn't – researchers found two common strands among children who remained depressed into early adolescence: a noticeably smaller right anterior insulae and, in 55percentt of cases, some deep and pathological guilt about all those lamps they keep breaking.
