Reduced to its simplest terms, it is an assumption of a collective duty to compensate for the inability of individuals to cope with the rigors of the era.

For better or for worse, we all now live in welfare states, the organizing principle of which is collective responsibility for individual well-being.

The deployment of a portion of these forces beyond our shores, on land and sea, is persuasive demonstration of our determination to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with our allies for collective security.

This is necessary for a sounder collective defense system.

Gov. Dalton's New Commerce and Industry Commission is moving to create a nine-state regional group in a collective effort to attract new industry.

The collective by which I address you in the title above is neither patronizing nor jocose but an exact industrial term in use among professional thieves.

As he points out, a religious group cannot exist without a collective credo, and the more extensive the credo, the more unified and strong is the group.

As the first collective confrontation of the Nazi outrage, the Trial of Eichmann represents a recovery of the Jews from the shock of the death camps, a recovery that took fifteen years and which is still by no means complete ( though let no one believe that it could be hastened by silence ).

If a union cannot perform this function, then collective bargaining is being palmed off by organizers as a gigantic fraud.

At the very moment that every attempt is being made to take management out from under the irrationality of anti-trust legislation, a drive is on to abolish collective bargaining under the guise of extending the anti-monopoly laws to unions who want no more than to continue to set wages in the same way that ship operators set freight rates.

Altruism is a motivation to provide something of value to a party who must be anyone but oneself, while duty focuses on a moral obligation towards a specific individual ( e. g., a god, a king ), or collective ( e. g., a government ).

* Mohism, which advocated the idea of universal love: Mozi believed that " everyone is equal before heaven ", and that people should seek to imitate heaven by engaging in the practice of collective love.

In BrE, collective nouns can take either singular ( formal agreement ) or plural ( notional agreement ) verb forms, according to whether the emphasis is on the body as a whole or on the individual members respectively ; compare a committee was appointed with the committee were unable to agree.

The Achaeans (, Akhaioí ) is one of the collective names used for the Greeks in Homer's Iliad ( used 598 times ) and Odyssey.

It is because Roma entered 2010 – 11 UEFA Champions League which counter-weight the effect of the new collective agreement of Serie A.

If there is refraction at a collective spherical surface, or through a thin positive lens, O ' 2 will lie in front of O ' 1 so long as the angle u2 is greater than u1 ( under correction ); and conversely with a dispersive surface or lenses ( over correction ).

It is either the collective term for ethics and aesthetics — philosophical fields that depend crucially on notions of value — or the foundation for these fields, and thus similar to value theory and meta-ethics.

The biology of a population is greater than the collective biologies of its individuals.

Humanity is understood to be in a process of collective evolution, and the need of the present time is for the gradual establishment of peace, justice and unity on a global scale.

Thus, the collective behavior of the condensate is a crucial ingredient necessary for superconductivity.

A social-market economy is a nominally free-market system where government intervention in price formation is kept to a minimum but the state provides significant services in the area of social security, unemployment benefits and recognition of labor rights through national collective bargaining arrangements.

The eight players most frequently referenced as members of the Big Red Machine include baseball's all-time hit leader in Rose ; three Hall of Fame players in Bench, Peréz and Morgan ; six National League MVP selections ; four National League home run leading seasons ; three NL Batting Champions ; 25 Gold Glove winning seasons, and 63 collective All-Star Game appearances.

Alternate meanings describe Maharishi as a collective name that refers to the seven rishis or saptarishis ( including Maharishi Bhrigu ) cited in the scriptures of Rig Veda and the Puranas, or any of the several mythological seers that are referenced in Vedic writings and associated with the seven stars of the constellation Ursa Major.

Fedorov's thought is extensively though indirectly referenced in the well-regarded 2010 science fiction novel The Quantum Thief ; it is implied that the founders of the post-human collective of uploaded minds called the Sobornost were inspired by Fedorov and other thinkers associated with cosmism.

( 2 ) displacement of state law by federal law in state courts in all actions regarding collective bargaining agreements ; ;

Had it done so, the blot on its escutcheon would have remained indelible, nor could the Harvard Divinity School assemble today to honor Parker's insurgence other than by getting down on its collective knees and crying `` peccavi ''.

The main scholarly outlet has been the journal Annales d ' Histoire Economique et Sociale (" Annals of economic and social history "), founded in 1929 by Lucien Febvre and Marc Bloch, which broke radically with traditional historiography by insisting on the importance of taking all levels of society into consideration and emphasized the collective nature of mentalities.

* BBS, collective term for the former South African High Commission Territories of Basutoland, Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland, administered by the British High Commissioner for Southern Africa

The four-man junta headed by General Augusto Pinochet abolished civil liberties, dissolved the national congress, banned union activities, prohibited strikes and collective bargaining, and erased the Allende administration's agrarian and economic reforms.

A collective body, the National Council of Public Safety ( CNSP ), presided over by Brigadier General Robert Guéi, took control.

Social capital is defined by Robert D. Putnam as " the collective value of all social networks and species ( who people know ) and the inclinations that arise from these works to do things for each other ( norms of reciprocity ).

Throughout the 1920s and most of the 1930s, the Labour Party's official policy, supported by Attlee, was to oppose rearmament and support internationalism and collective security under the League of Nations.

A collective trauma is a traumatic psychological effect shared by a group of people of any size, up to and including an entire society.

Traumatic events witnessed by an entire society can stir up collective sentiment, often resulting in a shift in that society's culture and mass actions.

The term was used by author John Perkins in his 2004 book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, where he described corporatocracy as a collective composed of corporations, banks, and governments.

The term computer system security means the collective processes and mechanisms by which sensitive and valuable information and services are protected from publication, tampering or collapse by unauthorized activities or untrustworthy individuals and unplanned events respectively.

The U. S. argument was affirmed, however, by the dissenting opinion of ICJ member U. S. Judge Schwebel, who concluded that in supporting the contras, the U. S. acted lawfully in collective self-defence in El Salvador's support.

Moreover, during the mid-1970s the magazine was run by a Maoist editorial collective.

Social determinants of health have been recognized by several health organizations such as the Public Health Agency of Canada and the World Health Organization to greatly influence collective and personal well-being.

Harnessing collective intellect, facilitated by interactive computers, became his life's mission at a time when computers were viewed as number crunching tools.

The mistake was picked up and repeated by numerous other media sources, and the moniker " D. B. Cooper " became lodged in the public's collective memory.

Sociologist Helmut Schoeck similarly considered envy the motive of collective efforts by society to reduce the disproportionate gains of successful individuals through moral or legal constraints, with altruism being primary among these.