It was 21 seasons ago that a Glasgow referee, a Mr Tarbet, poked his head into the changing-hut to warn Glencraig United of his hopes for a sporting encounter in their crunch match against Goldenhill Boys Clubb, only to receive such collective verbal abuse that he red-carded the whole team and both subs on the spot.
But our collective fear of abuse, and subsequent conflation of "underage sex" with "adults exploiting children" has transformed that sensible approach.
How can anyone take seriously, for example, US or British leaders lecturing China about Tibet, Russia about Chechnya, or Sudan about Darfur, when they have triggered and presided over such an orgy of killing, collective punishment, prisoner abuse and ethnic cleansing?
What does that say?" Irrespective of the answer, it has become clear that societies once condemned to collective silence over priestly abuse, such as Belgium or Ireland or Austria, are no longer prepared to remain mute, or to offer a tacit statute of limitations.
What a collective sense of child abuse it is".
"The government wishes to make a sincere and long overdue apology to the victims of childhood abuse for our collective failure to intervene, to detect their pain, to come to their rescue," he said, speaking before the Irish Parliament on May 11 , 1999
A collective response Work to prevent abuse and assist victims also continues at the national and international levels.
Women's justification of wife beating at the community level represents their collective tolerance or acceptance of abuse and to some degree reflects the wider social norms, values and attitudes towards gender inequality within the community [ 67].
The commission said on Tuesday that it suspected the banks of acting "through collusion or an abuse of a possible collective dominance".
