"And, unlike in other European countries, in Spain there has been no collective declaration of guilt or rejection of the past".
The 2013 crop comprises an unplanned, if not accidental, collective declaration of the essence of the cinema, an art of images and sounds that, at their best, don't exist to tell a story or to tantalize the audience (though they may well do so) but, rather, to reflect a crisis in the life of the filmmaker and the state of the artist's mind or, even, soul.
As soon as the summit opens, he said, aides will begin drafting a collective declaration for discussion by the heads of state and government at their working lunch.
It forces us to reflect on the meaning of our identity, slicing it into words, using remembrances of a supposedly better past, combining objects of collective desire, declarations of alleged unity, unfulfilled hopes and unreal dreams.
It is one of the world's largest "values block" with a collective commitment to the universal declaration of human rights, the international covenant on civil and political rights and perhaps more significantly, the European convention on human rights.
— Mitt Romney 1861: Civil War breaks out over pitting "individual rights as proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence against collective rights".
The Human Rights Tattoo project, founded by Sander Van Bussel, of the Tilburg CowBoys art collective, seeks to "tattoo the complete Declaration of Universal Human Rights with the full 6773 characters on 6773 human beings around the world".
A collective sense of bemusement greeted the first declaration of the Russian Federation's independence day.
Congress of Troppau, (October December 1820), meeting of the Holy Alliance powers, held at Troppau in Silesia (modern Opava, Czech Republic), at which the Troppau protocol, a declaration of intention to take collective action against revolution, was signed (Nov. 19, 1820).
"As I worked on the book, one of the things I realized is that we actually have a lot of collective confusion about the text of the Declaration of Independence," Allen says.
The Declaration of Independence was the product of the collective spirit of legal experts and state officials, but its phrasing in the final version was the language of a statesman to be precise, of David Ben-Gurion.
