Is that not because there's some underlying common mutual interest, some underlying common shared idea, some underlying common shared aspiration, underlying unified concept of what human dignity means?

"In the final analysis, this issue may have too far to go - from 2000 years of history and 52 years of not really coming to grips with shared aspirations," one senior official said.

The vision should also express the shared aspirations of the people for their cities to become more sustainable.

We live in this space of multiplicity where the ability to construct a single world with shared aspirations, sensitivities and imagination is not only improbable but impossible.

It is tempting to see a kind of new pan-Arabism, one that is based not on dictators shaking hands and then whispering plots behind each other's back but on shared aspirations.

The relationship between the two men underwent change from mutual suspicion to one of shared aspirations.

This approach is helpful if you have a tendency to compete with others and view them as a threat; it encourages greater understanding between people and appeals to shared aspirations.

This experience of a tight community of shared aspiration is rare in a novelist's lonely life.

It now therefore looks like a widely shared political aspiration is set to wind up in the cogs of Parliament's budget machinery.

After all, it is unacceptable for European presence in crisis regions to be restricted simply because a widely shared political aspiration is at risk of falling between all the financial stools.