Sentence examples for a collective power from inspiring English sources

At Ende Gelände, thousands experienced a collective power.

By concealing their individual identities by wearing gorilla masks in public, their opinions gain a collective power.

What the protesters want is their "right to the city", as notably championed by British geographer David Harvey, who called it "the exercise of a collective power to reshape the process of urbanisation".

Because so many of today's challenges are global, they demand a global response — collective power exercised in powerful partnership.

Women will need quite a bit more collective power for this not to be true.

However it is perhaps on the urban level and in municipal politics that the tribe comes through in its greatest extent as a source of collective power.

I now know that when mothers question limiting beliefs and realize they can be both great parents and empowered women making a difference, their collective power as leaders and movers and shakers is astonishing.

When young people chanted "Yes We Can," it wasn't just a slogan of hope; it was an affirmation of collective power.

"When transgender prisoners fight for access to hormones, underwear, makeup, and any other moments of gender self-determination they are fighting for an individual and collective power to refuse the gender based violence of the prison system," he told VICE.

So, whereas Hobbes argues that the sovereign is always vested with nearly absolute legislative authority, Spinoza claims that "since the right of a commonwealth is determined by the collective power of a people, the greater the number of subjects who are given cause by a commonwealth to join in conspiracy against it, the more must its power and right be diminished" (TP 3/9).

When they chanted "Yes We Can," it wasn't just a message of hope for the future; it was a confirmation statement of collective power.