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common and theme
Thomas and Parker have more in common than theme, attitude, life pattern.
Apollo is a common theme in Greek and Roman art and also in the art of the Renaissance.
A common theme is a mountain which blocked the Sun, but on the right day would allow the tiniest fraction to re-emerge on the other side for a ' double sunset '.
Black metal was originally used as a term for extreme metal bands with Satanic and anti-Christian lyrics ; today, the most common lyrical theme is opposition to Christianity and other organized religions.
The common theme in each case is that commercial parties seek predictability and simplicity in their contractual relations, and frequently choose the law of a common law jurisdiction with a well-developed body of common law to achieve that result.
However, with robust error correction, and the possibility of external intervention, the common science fiction theme of robotic life run amok is unlikely in the near term.
The depiction of Cerberus is relatively consistent between different works and authors, the common theme of the mane of serpents is kept across works, as is the serpent's tail, most literary works of the era describe Cerberus as having three heads with the only notable exception being Hesiod's Theogony in which he had 50 heads.
Philosophical vacuity is a common theme among Asian wisdom traditions including Taoism ( especially Wu wei " effortless action "), Buddhism, and some aspects of Confucianism.
Gambling, particularly on craps or horse races, was a common theme of Runyon's works, and he was a notorious gambler himself.
The central theme of ethnic nationalists is that ".. nations are defined by a shared heritage, which usually includes a common language, a common faith, and a common ethnic ancestry.
As for Capra's subject matter, film author Richard Griffith tries to summarize Capra's common theme:
The common theme in gibberish statements is a lack of literal sense, which can be described as a presence of nonsense.
Next, Israel is a common theme in the Gospel of Matthew.
It is somewhat common for a game to be designed with one theme and published with another, or for the same game to be given a significantly different theme for a later republication, or for two games on wildly different themes to have very similar mechanics.
A final common structural theme among GPCRs is palmitoylation of one or more sites of the C-terminal tail or the intracellular loops.
A common theme is the study of the geographies of the past and how a place or region changes through time.
The common theme is that a homomorphism is a function between two algebraic objects that respects the algebraic structure.
These power frameworks reduce the cost either by requiring the group of powers to have a common theme as in an Elemental Control Framework, or by limiting the number of powers that can be active at one time with a Multipower Framework.
A common theme in most Korean styles, such as taekkyeon and taekwondo, is the value of " inner peace " in a practitioner, which is stressed to be only achieved through individual meditation and training.
A common theme, particularly among American writers, is that of a Martian colony fighting for independence from Earth.

common and thrillers
The MacGuffin is common in films, especially thrillers.
More common in mystery thrillers are investigations and the whodunit technique.
Elements such as fringe theories, false accusations and paranoia are common in paranoid thrillers.
Threats to entire countries, spies, espionage, conspiracies, assassins and electronic surveillance are common in spy thrillers
While protagonists of thrillers have traditionally been men, women lead characters are increasingly common.
Variety shows were once as common on television as Westerns, courtroom dramas, suspense thrillers, sitcoms, or ( in more modern times ) reality shows.
Typically American crime dramas or psychological thrillers, films noir had a number of common themes and plot devices, and many distinctive visual elements.
Handgags are common in thrillers and are often associated with damsel-in-distress phenomena.

common and innocent
A common argument might be, " If killing an innocent human is always wrong, and all fetuses are innocent humans, then killing a fetus is always wrong.
The common stereotype on the issues of love and sex had it that the hippies were " promiscuous, having wild sex orgies, seducing innocent teenagers and every manner of sexual perversion.
Like other common ( and otherwise innocent ) terms, it may be assigned pejoratively to non-Jews.
* innocent: simple, foolish or stupid ( Fr: )( very common in Quebec French )
The second was called for by the preference which the common law gave to a distant collateral over the brother of the half-blood of the first purchaser ; the fourth conferred an indefeasible title on adverse possession for twenty years ( a term shortened by Lord Cairns in 1875 to twelve years ); the fifth reduced the number of witnesses required by law to attest wills, and removed the distinction which existed in this respect between freeholds and copyholds ; the last freed an innocent debtor from imprisonment only before final judgment ( or on what was termed mesne process ), but the principle stated by Campbell that only fraudulent debtors should be imprisoned was ultimately given effect to for England and Wales in 1869.
And they would really succeed in achieving their common aim if it were not for the eighth juror ( played by Henry Fonda in the 1957 movie adaptation ), who, on second thoughts, considers it his duty to convince his colleagues that the defendant may be innocent after all, and who, by doing so, triggers a lot of discussion, confusion, and anger.
The most common scenario is pointing a firearm at a police officer or an innocent person, which would reasonably provoke an officer to fire on them in defense.
They were also known for blowing up their targets with bombs ; although bombings are very common in the Sicilian Mafia, they have usually been forbidden in the American Mafia out of concern that they could put innocent people at risk.
has shifted to the hybridized posthuman of technoscience, from “ representation ” to “ simulation ,” “ bourgeois novel ” to “ science fiction ,” “ reproduction ” to “ replication ,” and “ white capitalist patriarchy ” to “ informatics of domination .” While Haraway ’ s “ ironic dream of a common language ” is inspired by Irigaray ’ s argument for a discourse other than patriarchy, she rejects Irigaray ’ s essentializing construction of woman-as-not-male to argue for a linguistic community of situated, partial knowledges in which no one is innocent.
The accused was presumed innocent, though not in the common law sense.
Unlike the other officers, Aarfy is not willing to pay for sex with a prostitute, but perversely he has no regrets when he rapes and murders the innocent maid Michaela ; when asked by Yossarian why he didn't simply hire a prostitute, he repeats his common admonition that " Old Aarfy has never paid for it ", and shows no remorse except when he begins to fear that he may be brought to justice.
The premise of an innocent person becoming entangled in a web of intrigue is one common in Hitchcock films such as The 39 Steps, Saboteur, North by Northwest and, most notably, The Man Who Knew Too Much, which inspired the opera house sequence in Foul Play.
For example, if a landowner polluted the land of the neighbor, the common law tort of nuisance would only allow the innocent party to recover damages.
At that time, two simple, innocent and very young Mahuri Vaisya boys, hardly having any schooling and not directly related to each other, but having a common surname, ( Bhadani ) – one, Chhattu Ram Bhadani and the other, Horil Ram Bhadani joined hands with only 500 pieces of British India One Rupee Silver coins ( about 5 kg of silver, present valuation 1000 USD or 50000 INR ) and commenced building a mica mining and exporting venture.
The things he had begun to be aware of, however fresh and innocent, lay outside what was common, or so he thought ; certainly, since he could have found no form in which to communicate them, outside words.
" A practice cannot be reconciled withcommon and fundamental ideas of fairness and right ,’ which subjects innocent men to increased dangers of conviction merely because of their poverty.
" This memorial is dedicated to all those innocent victims of war, many of whom went nameless and unknown to a common grave, or even never knew a grave at all, their bodies having been consumed by fire or crushed to dust beneath the rubble of ruins.

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