Too many people, like my father, who died of the illness just over a year ago, are being let down because of a collective reluctance to admit the scale of our problem.
Merit remains in business because of a collective of literati who volunteer their time to produce books and authors who forgo royalties.
But despite the fact that the plans are scheduled for announcement today (the terrorist incidents may cause delay), they are being refined because of a collective discussion.
In actuality, they outhit the Sox,.224 to.211, but did not draw sustenance from this gruel, because of a collective batting debility.
Pound coins, dollar bills, and even the fragments of computer code known as bitcoins can do their work only because of a collective agreement that they will.
An English historian and travel writer confronts the dazzling proposition that America became rich because of a collective hallucination; people believed in their money, which was made from paper and therefore encouraged speedy spending.
Osama Bin Laden was able to hide undetected in Pakistan for years because of a "collective failure" of the country's "military authorities, the intelligence authorities, the police and the civilian administration," according to a damning report kept secret by the Pakistani government.
"National reconciliation really took place during the 1960s and '70s, when Franco was still in power, through a natural process, not by government edict, but because of a collective feeling that the war had been horrible and that Spain had to move on," he said.
Is it because of a collective acceptance?
Mr Zolty, from Solihull, said he believed bomber crews had been largely ignored because of a "collective sense of guilt" after German troops, industry and airbases were targeted during the war.
