Thanks largely to pleas from Amur's government, Russia's Parliament is on the verge of passing new legislation that would free solitary miners from the collectives' grip.
(There's a difference, after all, between fasting and starving). But these are easy dispensations to grant to a novel so pungent, so frisky and so intent on probing the dissonances and delusions — both individual and collective — that grip this strange land getting stranger.
Even before we began to grasp the magnitude of this horror, a collective fear gripped Americans for one of the few times in our history.
Does he view this as a kind of collective madness gripping his adopted hometown?
So on Friday, when Sonia Gandhi, the Congress Party president, formally put forward Mr. Mukherjee's name, a collective frenzy gripped the political elite: What would happen?
So on Friday, when Sonia Gandhi, the Congress Party president, formally put forward Mr. Mukherjee's name, "a collective frenzy gripped the political elite: What would happen?" he wrote.
A collective amnesia grips near-future China: a whole month is missing, beginning with the economic collapse of the west and ending with China's ascendancy.
The judge justified the sentences for the two men, who had pleaded guilty and who had no previous convictions, by saying the pair had caused "a very real panic" in their Cheshire towns "at a time when collective insanity gripped the nation".
The unease that faced these women, the collective loss of grip, caused them to look for new ways to remain relevant.
Ofili took the familiar reference of a comforting Bob Marley song, and directed it at the collective grief, anger, and frustration gripping Britain's black community in the 1990s.
