common ground

The LGBT movement looked for places where we could find common ground, and focused there.

It became a model, rarely emulated, of how digital tools can be used to find common ground in a contentious society.

Tellingly, Rieux finds common ground with every character except the priest.

The priests conclude that there is common ground on even the most contentious topics that pit science versus spirituality.

But even his worst opponents can find common ground with him on their shared dedication to details.

To write with authority about another man, we must have fellow-feeling and some common ground of experience with our subject.

But Hollister could never find himself on any common ground of mutual interest with this sporting Englishman.

They differ typically in movement or composition; they have a common ground in diction.

And in this common ground each influenced the other from the beginning of recorded criticism.

There seemed no way that men and prowlers could ever meet on common ground.