Sentence examples for collective death from inspiring English sources

Eisenman's installation commemorates the six million murdered Jews collectively; but there is no more a collective death than there is a collective life; an appropriate memorial would commemorate six million times one.

But doing the same thing over and over is a merely a collective death wish made policy.

If our ancestors channeled their collective death instinct into religious myth, we now face a raft of scientific data that suggest the end might be truly nigh.

In Saramago's telling, Joseph, husband of Mary, overhears the collective death sentence by chance and manages to hide his own son while leaving the others to perish.

Mr Orbach said the retailers must have a "collective death wish" to reduce their wares to such "ludicrous" levels, bookseller.com reported.

Sebald is describing a collective death, a falling away; the people in this word picture, like the felled trees he describes in "The Rings of Saturn," are as if caught in a kind of swoon.

In the three weeks since Hugo Chávez flew to Cuba for yet another cancer operation, we have been drawn into a sort of collective death-bed vigil, with a government spokesman intimating at a progressively deteriorating state and seeking to "prepare" the president's supporters for the inevitable.

While the media shares the horrific details of individual and collective deaths and murders, there is a point when we need to focus more on how they lived rather than on how they died.

For other related articles, see collective behaviour; death; emotion; family; human behaviour; human rights; intelligence; kinship; language; learning theory; mind, philosophy of; motivation; perception; personality; population; sexual behaviour, human; social structure; Stone Age; technology; thought.

Legal penalties included collective punishment, death for anyone who spread theories aiming to change the constitution and life imprisonment for disseminating information that tarnished the country's reputation.

But "collective violence" – deaths and injuries caused by conflicts and terrorism – accounts for only $167bn of the total figure.