And when this happens, the effect is the same as if there WERE no common purpose.
Sometimes the people of a community, or a large portion of them, seem to be wholly unconscious that a common purpose exists.
To give a part to a common stock; to lend assistance or aid, or give something, to a common purpose; to have a share in any act or effect.
A narrow circle of persons associated by common interests or for the accomplishment of a common purpose; - - generally used in a bad sense.
Equality of rights is most in clanger of being violated when the exercise of rights is associated with power, and any unusual amount of power is usually derived from the association of a number of individuals for a common purpose.
They are distinguished by the energy and success whereby the common purposeof making money is accompanied and followed.
Such men are associated with their fellows in the pursuit of a common purpose, and they are divided from their fellows by the energy and success with which that purpose is pursued.
The letter of the Constitution wisely declared a separation, but the impulse of common purpose declares a union.
The result of this new policy has been not to weaken our alliances, but to give them new life, new strength, a new sense of common purpose.
And the total result of our united action and purposes may be something different from what any of us individually intended and yet express a common purpose, which is shown by the result to have been more or less present to all of us.
Perhaps it will be said that the chess-players have a common purpose, and the players in life's game have none.
The science of Political Economy assumes that it is a common purpose of men to acquire wealth, and that their actions are determined by that purpose.
Maintaining intact the peculiar governments which they now individually enjoy, will not the citizens of each feel that they are henceforth all interested in the welfare and glory of the whole race, and in the development of a common purpose?
As long as the Spanish-speaking peoples remain scattered and without a common purpose in view, its numbers will avail little in the solution of the problems of this century.
The addresses and speeches selected for publication are not arranged chronologically, but are classified in such a way that each volume contains addresses and speeches relating to a general subject and a common purpose.
In short he considers them to be active partners with himself in the working out of a common purpose, and treats them as such.
But the longer they remain together, the greater their numbers, the more they are harangued as a body having a common purpose, the more surely does this crowd-will take form and make possible their transformation into a mob.
Union; by which differences of opinion should be tolerated, in order that a million of hearts should beat for a common purpose, a million hands work out, invincibly, a common salvation.
In other matters there could be but small sympathy between William the Silent and the Cardinal's brother; but a common hatred united them, for a time at least, in a common purpose.
With the consciousness that they were congenial spirits and shared a common purpose, each was willing to sacrifice some of his own habits and preferences in the interest of the group.
Waking in the morning, they continued their conversation, and in sympathy with a common purpose and in recognition of the advantages of association, they decided to keep together for the remainder of the hunt.
Conversation in the group develops a common purpose.
They were allied in a common cause, but their alliance had no bond more obligatory upon themselves than is that which unites a mass meeting whose constituent members are possessed temporarily of a common purpose.
They saw in the mails a certain socialistic use of the people's power for a common purpose.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "common purpose" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
