Sentence examples for the common which from inspiring English sources

It offers a potentially universal perspective based on the defence of the common, which includes not only natural resources but also knowledge and traditions based on solidarity and mutuality.

His favorite areas to perform are outside South Station, in the open-air market Faneuil Hall, and near the Common, which is like Boston's Central Park (a comparison I'm certain many Bostonians will enjoy).

The Arctic tern has greyer underparts than the common, which make its white cheeks more obvious, whereas the rump of the common tern can be greyish in non-breeding plumage, compared to the white of its relative.

Instead of that, we had a garbled statement in the Commons which nobody could understand.

Still, the steadfast pose of Mr Osborne went down well in the Commons, which is of course a political chamber.

This would take place a year after the bill's second reading in the Commons which means the prime minister could override the Lords in June 2016.

Cameron has a majority of 12 in the Commons – which has already shown itself vulnerable to pressure, despite Labour prevarication – and none in the Lords.

It used parliamentary procedure to prevent voting in March on an identical amendment in the Commons, which had been proposed by Patricia Hewitt, the health secretary until 2007.

As a result, the standing committees in the Commons (which are meant to scrutinise every new law) are thinly attended and skip over chunks of each bill.

Squash produced a report while the law was going through the House of Lords – after it bypassed the normal process in the Commons – which shows that this law will cost the taxpayer £790m over five years.

Take the way it works – the long and sometimes unpredictable hours, or the confrontational nature of the chamber of the Commons – which is often blamed for making life for women MPs particularly difficult.