Mr. Bush's plan would move the system away from its identity as a collective pact under which each generation of workers helps support the retirement of its predecessors.
But when some new diners settled into booths on my left, yelling at each other about how cute this was, and taking photos of each other in their carrels, I felt affronted that they were breaking our collective pact to be alone.
The houses that are being built and renovated by leading Chicago gallery owners, artists, architects, designers and news-media people - they can all be spotted by their watches, since they have made a collective pact to stick to central versus the local Eastern time - seem at first unnecessary.
Without a spoken word between us, we made a collective pact to help the two retired women that day.
The bill that finally won overwhelming approval includes a provision to allow a judge to revoke the pension of a corrupt official and to determine, in the case of a corrupt state employee, whether revocation would violate collective bargaining pacts.
Bandung Principle 6 (a) emphasized the "non-use of collective defense pacts to benefit the specific interests of any of the great powers" (Ministry of External Affairs of the Government of India 2012).
The security environment has pushed countries toward more joint action, and to place greater value on the assurances brought by security cooperation and collective defense pacts.
ANZUS stands for the Australia New Zealand United States treaty, a collective security pact dating to 1951.
In 2025, China, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Pakistan sign the Eurasian Treaty -- a collective defense pact which became a political-military arm of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
"Allegiance to a nation is a collective suicide pact".
