The two parties both stressed "commonalities" in policy as reason for the "difficult decision".
One of the general practitioners expressed that she may be better equipped to handle a traumatised patient who is an ethnic Dane, whereas another, again, stressed commonalities between patients with psychiatric problems: "I would still say that there is no difference for me here, because I think it depends on the status of the patient.
A lot of decent religious people might have reservations about spending too much time on deliberations where they were continually urged to stress commonality, and play down difference, at the risk of compromising integrity.
In works such as Oslovit Zachea (2003; Patience with God), Halik questioned the opposition between faith and doubt and stressed the commonality that often exists between "seekers," whether they identify themselves as religious persons or not.
As I mentioned in a recent posting, Vladimir Putin revealed his own openness to such thinking when, in 2010, he stressed the commonality that many people saw between Orthodox Christianity and Islam.
"You can't blame them for being so closed and self-protected," said the guide, David Wei, who entertained passengers on daily bus rides by stressing the commonalities between the two places: the clogged highways, the soaring real estate prices and the challenge of finding a perfectly marbled slab of pork.
Stauffer's intensely romantic portrait of the friendship between these men stresses their commonalities rather than their differences, often obscuring the distinctions in class, race, and common sense that divided them.
The advocates of change should stress our commonality, never our divisions.
The question of how this changed, how Protestants came to stress their commonality with Catholics, is, generically speaking, the question of the day: How do mutual fear, hostility and suspicion give way to amity, or at least tolerance?
But he stressed that there was "significant" commonality with the existing design that the risk to Rolls-Royce would be limited.
Parsa and Zabihian understand this ailment and the larger systemic problem at the root of it all: the way in which we teach, stressing uniformity and commonality above personalization and customization.
