Other defenders of collective responsibility, e.g., Peter French, refrain from going this far on the grounds that the groups in question are not organized enough to be capable of sustaining a sense of moral agency that is genuinely collective (French 1984).
Obligations under international humanitarian law, applying to both parties, include preventing harm to civilians and destroying civilian infrastructure and also refraining from collective measures, intimidation and reprisals.
But the most common refrain was the collective expression of trust in a world order governed by the Security Council.
The good news is that, from now on, anyone ambushed by a cock-up in the collective intelligence will have an easy refrain - don't worry about it, buddy, snakes on a plane.
Tsipras has denounced creditors' demands to scrap an income top-up for the poorest pensioners and to refrain from unilateral moves to reintroduce collective bargaining or raise the minimum wage - policies that are anathema for his leftist Syriza party.
Besides these moments, the committee cannot put its collective finger on any blot that makes us demur, but we refrain from recommending his candidacy.
Despite great hopes and collective efforts, they find themselves caught between a bottomless grief and the refrain of "I told you so".
That subsequent generations refrained from doing so was, Freud suggested, due to a collective bad conscience.
"Wicked, wicked jungle is massive" is one of those refrains that you know before you hear, a sound plugged into our collective consciousness like the riff in Deep Purple's "Smoke On The Water" and the booming chortle of Brian Blessed.
In a securities filing, Collective Brands, based in Topeka, Kan., said it was not admitting any wrongdoing but that it would promise to "refrain from making, advertising, promoting or selling footwear confusingly similar to that sold by K-Swiss".
