"Sure, England have punched above their collective weight, and played better than most people expected...But it's this loss of perspective that gets my goat.
The Girls Not Brides campaign, a global partnership of organisations, was launched by The Elders, a group of high-profile leaders who use their collective weight and influence to campaign on issues ranging from equality for women to human rights and peace.
"We need to put our resources, energy, and collective weight towards finding the children, women and men, the marginalized and vulnerable populations who are currently lost to PPTCT, MCH and HIV services," said Dr Cheng.
Hold a town hall meeting and throw a person out of the meeting; make headlines about hearings on the city of Bell pension issue ("Gatto hopes for pension reform," Sept. 6); no budget discussion yet as the rest of California struggles under your collective weight of inaction; and pray tell what else!
They will sometimes use their collective weight to obstruct U.S. and European plans.
At 5 a.m., the stagehands arrived outside the prison to set up a platform solid enough to bear the collective weight of many politicians and speakers in the coming hours.
Here there is no affair, no transgression, just the collective weight of history, inheritance and culture driving one man toward his isolated fate.
Sitting silently in the pew, holding the collective weight of the stones, praying and listening, helped me make room for the sorrow and shadow.
Instead, Bankia sank under the collective weight of bad property loans and required 18 billion euros of the European rescue money to keep it afloat.
That movement, the Free State Project, aims to make all of New Hampshire a laboratory for libertarian politics by recruiting libertarian-leaning people from across the country to move to New Hampshire and throw their collective weight around.
In no more than a century, the collective weight of food shortages, raw material depletion and pollution would reverse expansion.
