Doctors have a duty to advocate for their patients, both individually in their offices and collectively in the debate about the provision of health care to society.
A number of factors -- political, economic and ethical -- have pushed us to collectively ponder and debate the best way to support the pursuit of higher education.
In the already long-lasting peaceful times marked by the predominance of the welfare state in Europe, the use of the internet is practically the only means for efficiently involving people, and particularly young people, in the political information exchange, debates, collectively prepared decisions for action and in the political action itself.
Collectively, the trio debated whether or not the Mormon shift on marriage equality was, at its heart, a re-interpretation of the church's core beliefs or simply politically motivated.
In our analysis, we embarked on an iterative process of interpretation by collectively sharing and debating our understanding of the stories with reference to social contract theory, and refining them into the narratives presented below.
After some debate, we collectively modified the script to this: "Is your name working as hard for you as it could be?" The feeling was that, after all the time and research we put into getting to this point with the client's executives, we shouldn't risk alienating them with such a bold position.
By conducting all these activities, the Advisors, collectively, "are informing parliamentary debate," as Nath explains.
By bringing together the relevant stakeholders, well-planned workshops can empower a group of individuals who share a common interest or vision to participate collectively in the policy debate.
For example, many of the participants of the workshop in Spain decided that they would continue to communicate and work toward collectively feeding into policy debate in their country.
The media forms the arena in which these different interpretations are presented and debated, and hence, collectively, the media speaks for climate, albeit not in one voice.
(3) Government workers are taxpayers and voters, and they have every right to speak collectively through their unions in debates over their work lives and public policy.
