Definitions for common purpose
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1. common purposenoun

   Of a group: having the same purpose or intent in some action or series of actions.

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1. common purpose

   Common Purpose is a British-founded charity that runs leadership-development programmes around the world.Common Purpose UK is a subsidiary of Common Purpose.Founded in 1989 by Julia Middleton, its aim is to develop leaders who cross boundaries so they can solve complex problems in work and in society. Adirupa Sengupta was appointed as Group CEO in 2019.As of 2015 Common Purpose ran local programmes for leaders in cities across the world, and its global programmes bring together leaders from over 100 countries across six continents. As of 2019, 85,000 leaders worldwide have taken part in Common Purpose programmes.

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1. Common purpose

   The doctrine of common purpose, common design, joint enterprise, or joint criminal enterprise is a legal doctrine in some common law jurisdictions which imputes criminal liability on the participants to a criminal enterprise for all that results from that enterprise. A common incidence of the application of the rule is to impute criminal liability for assaulting a person with a knife, on all the participants to a riot who knew, or were reckless as to knowing, that one of their number had a knife and might use it, even when the imputed participants did not actually have knives themselves. This doctrine and similar legal principles can be found nations & states including England & Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Australia, Trinidad & Tobago, Solomon Islands, Texas USA, Mass. USA, the ICC and ICTY.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of common purpose in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of common purpose in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of common purpose in a Sentence

1. Roxanne Dube:

   Your grief is our grief, we can only hope that, in time, we will find common purpose towards diminishing the causes of such violent crimes. For now, we just want to be there for Marc, our incredibly caring son who loved his brother very much, and to say goodbye, ever so tenderly and quietly to Jean, our love.

2. Cory Booker:

   Together, we will channel our common pain back into our common purpose.

3. Cory Booker:

   I just have this strong belief now as I meet rural, white Americans, as I meet rural black Americans, we have so much of the common pain but we're lacking the sense of common purpose.

4. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi:

   We know that Afghanistan's success will require the cooperation and support of each of its neighbours, and all of us in the region - India, Pakistan, Iran and others – must unite in trust and cooperation behind the common purpose and in recognition of our common destiny.

5. Prime Minister Narendra Modi:

   We know that Afghanistan's success will require the cooperation and support of each of its neighbors, and all of us in the region - India, Pakistan, Iran and others – must unite in trust and cooperation behind the common purpose and in recognition of our common destiny.

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Common_Purpose
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Purpose
3. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=common purpose