Poetry in Persian life is far more than a common ground on which -- in a society deeply fissured by antagonisms -- all may stand.

`` we the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common Defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America ''.

The Charles Men has a tremendous range of characters, of common folk even more than of major figures.

Now this concern for the freedom of other peoples is the intellectual and spiritual cement which has allied us with more than forty other nations in a common defense effort.

In the wide range of experiences common to our earth-bound race none is more difficult to manage, more troublesome, and more enduring in its effects than the control of love and hate.

The troops must have more than the common quantity of liquor, and perhaps there will be some little drunkenness among them ''.

Leasing a car is not as common or as popular as renting a car in Europe, but for long periods it will be unquestionably more economical and satisfactory.

While other conditions might be even more effective in bringing about a change from immobility to mobility in Kohnstamm reactivity, it is our hypothesis that all such conditions would have as a common factor the capacity to induce an attitude in the subject which enabled him to divorce himself temporarily from feelings of responsibility for his behavior.

Law became a conscious process, something more than simply doing justice and looking to local customs and a common morality for applicable norms.

As the material at the command of the potters grew and the volume of their production increased, the local variations within a common style became more evident.

Now Dylan Thomas and Charlie Parker have a great deal more in common than the same disastrous end.

Thomas and Parker have more in common than theme, attitude, life pattern.

that is, it is known empirically that names beginning with R are more common than those beginning with Z ; ;

but a much more common designation was `` the sh-ts ''.

they are far more common in the Pacific.

`` I'm hopeful that from more traditional exchanges we can perhaps find greater common ground ''.

Then, after many more billions of years, when all the galaxies are whistling toward a common center, this movement will slow down and reverse itself again.

Reports Dr. Keys: `` A fairly common experience for us is the wife who finds her husband staying out more and more.

His interpretation of the Pauline phrase is that we should seek the common good more than the private good, but this is because the common good is a more desirable good for the individual.

John Adams asserted in the Continental Congress' Declaration of Rights that the demands of the colonies were in accordance with their charters, the British Constitution and the common law, and Jefferson appealed in the Declaration of Independence `` to the tribunal of the world '' for support of a revolution justified by `` the laws of nature and of nature's God ''.

The headquarters of Morgan was on a farm, said to have been particularly well located so as to prevent the farmers nearby from trading with the British, a practice all too common to those who preferred to sell their produce for British gold rather than the virtually worthless Continental currency.

British common sense is proverbial.

The present attempts of the politicians to contaminate ordinary Britons shows that this British common sense is unwilling to pull somebody else's chestnuts out of the fire by new military adventures ''.

This divergence between American English and British English once caused George Bernard Shaw to say that the United States and United Kingdom are " two countries divided by a common language "; a similar comment is ascribed to Winston Churchill.

English cultural influence ( reinforced at the end of the 19th century and beginnings of the 20th by British contacts with the Far East ) has also made the consumption of tea very common.

British Columbian introduced species include: common dandelion, ring-necked pheasant, Pacific oyster, brown trout, black slug, European Starling, cowbird, knapweed, bullfrog, purple loosestrife, Scotch broom, Himalayan blackberry, European earwig, tent caterpillar, sowbug, gray squirrel, Asian longhorn beetle, English ivy, Fallow Deer, thistle, gorse, Norway rat, crested mynah, and Asian or European gypsy moth.

Brown bear remains from the Pleistocene period are common in the British Isles, where it is thought they outcompeted cave bears.

The most common type of brick kiln in use there are Bull's Trench Kiln ( BTK ), based on a design developed by British engineer W. Bull in the late 19th century.

The French however failed to achieve British participation in a common intervention to stop the Balkan conflict.

Particularly common law is in England where it originated in the Middle Ages, and in countries that trace their legal heritage to England as former colonies of the British Empire, including India, the United States, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Canada, Malaysia, Ghana, Australia, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, Singapore, Ireland, New Zealand, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Cyprus, Barbados,

British traditions such as the monarchy were rejected by the U. S. Constitution, but many English common law traditions such as habeas corpus, jury trials, and various other civil liberties were adopted in the United States.

British colonists were considered to have brought English common law as well as applicable English statutes with them.

Upon the transfer of the colony to British control, the British government issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which imposed English common law on the colony, under the principle set out in Blackstone relating to captured colonies.

However, in 1774, the British Parliament passed the Quebec Act, which restored the French civil law for matters of private law ( e. g., contracts, property, successions ), while keeping the English common law as the basis for public law in the colony, notably the criminal law.

When the English finally regained control of New Netherland they forced, as a punishment unique in the history of the British Empire, the English common law upon all the colonists, including the Dutch.

Indian Law is largely based on English common law because of the long period of British colonial influence during the period of the British Raj.

When India became part of the British Empire, there was a break in tradition, and Hindu and Islamic law were supplanted by the common law.

This pronunciation is also common in Australian English, but not in General American English or British English.

Hayek saw the British philosophers Bernard Mandeville, David Hume, Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson, Josiah Tucker, Edmund Burke and William Paley as representative of a tradition that articulated beliefs in empiricism, the common law, and in traditions and institutions which had spontaneously evolved but were imperfectly understood.

Plated mail was in common use in India until the Battle of Plassey and the subsequent British conquest of the sub-continent.

An undated painting of the British Water Witch built in 1831 is labeled OPIUM CLIPPER " WATER WITCH " so the term had at least passed into common usage during the time that this ship sailed.