Some common strands are evident in the challenges facing Europe's political systems.

A highly unscientific survey of those conversations revealed a few common strands of logic among Bush and Kerry advisers.

From the bare biographical sketches provided by the military, there seem to be few common strands among the three dead men.

The common strand in all of these is the admirer-admired relationship.

The reddish purple is easy enough to understand as it describes the color of a common strand of coneflower.

Though their chosen subjects are all over the map, Long Island's smaller museums seem to share one common strand: the passion of the people who create and run them.

If there is a common strand that runs through the background of Community Prep children, it is an untapped eagerness to learn.

Political philosopher John Gray identified the common strands in liberal thought as being individualist, egalitarian, meliorist, and universalist.

As the investigation continues, other possibilities for common strands between the groups of attackers have emerged.

Another strand common among the finalists was the importance they gave to sharing the work the children had created.