Yeziz was joining the rally that evening, but not even he was sure where the Kurds would collectively end up.
Countries need to work in partnership with international agencies, donors, global experts, and one another in order to collectively end HIV/AIDS.
The 13th, 14th and 15th "Reconstruction Amendments" collectively ended slavery, guaranteed equal protection under the law and allowed all men to vote regardless of race or former slave status.
As a result more than 1600 villages have collectively ended the practice of FGM/C – representing more than 30 per cent of the practicing population.
Although civil society actors have been pressing hard on the issue of child marriage for several years, it is the first time that such a large range of government officials, organizations, United Nations agencies and individuals, including youth and children, vow to collectively end a practice that cuts short the childhood of over 17 million girls – 1 in 3 – across the continent.
Amendments offered by Senators DeMint, Thune, and Coburn, would collectively have ended the Renewable Fuel Standard (ethanol mandate), tax credit, and import tariff.
Since animals can't speak for themselves (at least not in words readily understood by most people), we need to gather for them, organize ourselves and use our voices to speak collectively to end their abuse through such common practices as factory farming, puppy mills, animal fighting, elephant poaching and seal clubbing.
Four days after his sermon, Rev. Hall joined a press conference of interfaith leaders, who called for the religious community to act collectively to end gun violence and to demand swift action from political leaders to pass common-sense gun laws.
"Nothing is as powerful as a community itself seeing the harm being done to its own children, and deciding – collectively – to end that practice," said Nicholas Alipui, UNICEF's Director of Programmes.
Tom Slee's excellent book "No One Makes You Shop at Wal-Mart" describes the many circumstances in which everyone making the best individual choices for themselves end up leading to outcomes that are collectively undesirable (such as ending up with a Walmart on the outskirts of a town with a hollowed-out town center).
