Love has a de-individualising effect, establishing a small collectivity of Gerd and her husband in the situation (Luhmann, 1982).
Inevitably, such survival means empowerment to smaller and smaller collectivities, and the right of self-determination to each.
And this has to be if our global system is a CAS, because in its self-interest a vast number of independent, self-organized "nodes" — that is, people, teams, smaller businesses and other organizational collectivities — repeating independence and self-organization on a larger and larger scale to the point where it does not become bureaucracy is what will ensure its perpetuity.
One bright spot was the performance of Kiribati Shipping Services Ltd., which signed an agreement to provide much-needed and profitable regular shipping services for its small neighbours, including Tuvalu, Nauru, and the French collectivity of Wallis and Futuna.
The measurement represents the first observation of possible long-range collectivity for open heavy flavor hadrons in small systems.
But it also suggested that behind the formal estrangements of his films lay a real anxiety about the decline of the city: after half a decade of Thatcherism, Norwood announces "the age of small business" and notes that politically and socially speaking, "collectivity lies in ruins".
A small number of local governments, known as collectivités territoriales à statut particulier ("territorial collectivities with special status"), have slightly different administrative frameworks; among these are the island of Corsica and the large cities of Paris, Lyon, and Marseille.
Collectivities' views of other collectivities are even more elusive than those of individuals.
COLL191 words referring to all human collectivities (not animal).
Local collectivities are directly concerned by managing this resource in terms of quality and quantity.
