The shared cultural background facilitated mutual trust.

Police suggested that there was possibly a willingness for abusers with shared ethnic backgrounds to work together in gangs, and not on their own.

Networking means people with shared backgrounds will always have an advantage in certain careers, perhaps contributing something to the decline in social mobility.

Taylor is highly respectful of Shepard due to their shared background in the military.

Indeed, apart from some shared backgrounds, they are studies in contrast.

Both also share a dualistic philosophy which comes from a shared philosophical background in popular schools of Hellenistic thought.

Each later maintained that his own adult views had been determined by this shared background.

They say their shared background has helped ease the transition to the Jets' system.

And yet despite this shared background, they condemned these acts of violence.

Those documents constitute a shared background, outlining the main conditions necessary to achieve urban sustainable development.