In the end a sense of common purpose kept the group together.

We must bring into our cause others who have a common purpose.

Everyone has come all this distance for a more or less common purpose.

It would be up to you really to common purposes.

In this case, however, all sides found a common purpose.

Government, after all, is no more than its individual citizens, working together toward a common purpose.

Only given them a common purpose for this time being.

But there appears to be little sense of common purpose.

"I have many minutes, all of them used toward a common purpose."

But at the same time we need a sense of common purpose.