1.   I can say that truth, friendship and the statute of limitations have a common root in time.

2.   Aside from common roots in the middle-class South, the two have little in common.

3.   But where the fusion works best, the distinctive sounds resonate like harmonics as they find their common roots.

4.   For Guediguian, such social ills stem from a common root.

5.   In his address Thursday, John Paul emphasized the common roots of the two faiths and his personal experiences of the Holocaust.

6.   It was a striking disparity, given that the two environmental problems have some important common roots.

7.   Ms. Fabre-Vassas writes that Christians were faced with the spiritual problem of how to separate themselves from their Jewish heritage while acknowledging their common Old Testament roots.

8.   She was unimpressed, but they fell into a conversation about their common roots.

9.   Students from China face special problems, because their language has no common roots with English.

10.   The common roots of bigotry are ignorance and fear.