You already have common interests, so gently reach out and get to know these influential players through mutual online discussions.
Although NFL teams have common interests such as promoting the NFL brand, they are still separate, profit-maximizing entities, and their interests in licensing team trademarks are not necessarily aligned.
And as it relates to China, we're going to continue to work cooperatively with the Chinese where we have common interests and where we have differences, particularly as it relates to making sure that China is living up to the rules of the road.
Those two provider groups have some common interests, but they have some disparate ones as well.
Moreover, Washington and New Delhi have common geopolitical interests in that both are threatened--albeit in different ways--by an assertive Beijing.
Iran and America have some common interests, including regular energy exports from the Gulf, a stable Iraq and hostility to the Taliban in Afghanistan.
The United States and Russia obviously have a whole range of differences on a whole range of issues, but we also have some common interests.
Common enemies have led to common economic interests, according to Abdullah Dardari, Syria's deputy prime minister for economic affairs.
Leaders of the world's two biggest economies have stressed their common interests in security affairs and global economic stability even as they wrangle over complaints about China's trade surpluses, its exchange rate controls and efforts to curb global warming.
But there is a more generous interpretation: that France and Germany, like an old married couple, have many interests in common and can agree to disagree on the others.
Information on the site says that not only will members know their pet priorities will be understood - but that they will already have interests in common with other correspondents.
Internet engineers or Linux programmers have a common culture and common interests, even if they live continents apart.
Among the installations is a "lunch button" kiosk, which matches up employees with common interests to have lunch together that day.
As a result, we now have a mature friendship based on common interests and characterized by honesty on matters where we disagree.
Unfortunately, in modern corporations where ownership is separated from management, common shareholders and managers sometimes have conflicting interests, and for this reason, it is important that companies appoint qualified, independent board members to help oversee management and protect shareholder value.
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"The excitement of meeting new people with whom you have no 'friends' in common, only interests, geography or kinks, are probably enough (to propel the product), " Anthony Wing Kosner wrote at Forbes.com.
For the sake of the security interests that all parties have in common, the US should not allow the inevitable problems to obscure how much the U.S., our allies, and Russia all have to gain from continued cooperation and good relations.
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What bona fide common interests might the Israelis and Palestinians have, despite their bitter enmity, that can be rationally advanced even under the condition that a sometimes violent minority remains determined to sabotage any progress toward peace?
We have good allies in Eastern Europe because of our common defense interests.
In the past, we have turned a blind eye towards such official subversion of our common interests.
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"In the lead-up to parliamentary elections, scheduled to be held between October 2013 and January 2014, strikes have become a more common tool for political parties to further their interests, " the report noted.
But this time the two parties have more in common, both philosophically and in terms of the coincidence of their political interests.
And we all have a role to play in encouraging Beijing to define its interests more in terms of common global concerns than merely introspective concerns.
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