His insistence on breaking collective ties comes when so many collective ties have been severed anyway.
To their consternation, the authors found that Americans were concerned increasingly with individual attainment and far less with forging the collective ties that had traditionally bound communities.
But the bigger prize is social cohesion and the continuation of a way of life: collective ties stretched by months of wandering are re-established.
In a setting with strong collective ties, stillbirths are a burden borne by the affected family, and often just by the mother, rather than the community as a whole.
The decision on Heathrow was taken in a cabinet sub-committee, but the convention of collective responsibility ties all her senior ministers to the move.
THE Supreme Court is poised to decide whether the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms or only a collective right tied to service in a state militia.
Within such a collective, kinship ties and adherence to group obligations ensured and strengthened the coherence of social networks.
Land and its title, singular and collective, are the ties that bind, and nearly unravel, in this account of an African-American family far-flung from its moorings.
Raz's conception of a collective right is tied to his interest theory of rights, according to which X has a right only if X is capable of having rights and if, other things being equal, "an aspect of X's well-being (his interest) is a sufficient reason for holding some other person to be under a duty" (1986, 166).
So that's why we hate A-Rod, because he's a dastardly villain who represents a classic archetype that's rooted in our collective unconscious and tied to ancient mythology.
