His detractors, however, said his "collective" amounted to a cult.
Today, the collective amount of money that Wall Street banks are pumping into Internet start-ups, on top of the surging cash piles from venture capital groups, hedge funds and private equity, is a major concern for some investors.
But no collective amount of such reminiscences is enough to outweigh our immense failure in delivering to the Iraqi people what we promised, compounded by what may be the UK's greatest crime: having little if nothing to do with rebuilding the country it helped dismember.
Considering the collective amount of time poured into this project, it's starting to look like a feature-complete Android TouchPad is going to materialize sooner rather than later.
Opensecrets.org codes individual contributions based on occupations to determine the collective amount employees in those industries contribute to campaigns.
This lumbers Westminster with the lion's share of the repairs tab, now likely to tip £3m, while leaseholders' collective contribution amounts to less than £10,000.
Currently, there are many consumer web companies collective massive amounts of data on consumer activity, checkins, purchases, spending trends, and so on, but few companies have been able to easily tap into the actual real world, offline buying habits of average people at small, local merchants.
Their language was so similar that the collective reaction amounted to one big inside-the-Beltway echo chamber.
South Koreans became hooked on plastic so dizzyingly fast that by 2003 they owned on average four credit cards each and their collective debts amounted to about $100 billion.
Their collective cargo amounted to more than 280 tons of hashish valued at 2.8 billion euros, or about $3.2 billion — roughly half of what was seized in all of continental Europe last year, according to the European Union's Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction.
