Sentence examples for collective entity from inspiring English sources

Historically, Muslim Filipinos have never constituted a collective entity.

Are we in fact losing grip of the city as a collective entity?

The party was presenting to the public as though it had lost the essential skill of being a collective entity.

Hedge funds are generally organized as limited liability companies or partnerships, so they fall under the collective entity rule.

(As a collective entity, of course. The individual members are mostly basking in their late 60s and early 70s).

Under the Supreme Court decision in Braswell v. United States, a corporation is a "collective entity" separate from its owners.

In their 125th year, the Rooks fended off bankruptcy to become Lewes Community Football Club, thus joining AFC Wimbledon, FC United of Manchester and Exeter City, among others, as collective entities.

(For newbies: the National Popular Vote, or N.P.V., is a breakthrough plan that will enable us to elect the President not by by collating the packaged "votes" of collective entities called states, but by counting the votes of individual citizens no matter where they live. N.P.V. does this without changing the constitution or abolishing the electoral college.

In short, we ascribe representational states to collective entities, including motivational and informational states, despite the fact that they are not individual human beings.

The latter arguments frequently proceed as follows: While collective entities generally act through their individual members, their actions do not coincide with their member's actions.

On the other hand, such attributions might be understood non-summatively as applying to collective entities, themselves ontologically distinct from the members upon which they depend.