Sentence examples for supposed collective from inspiring English sources

Institutionally, Wikipedia has a difficult problem: to allow anyone to decline to be a subject of an article would be an admission that the supposed collective editing process is deeply flawed.

The real worry for Europe is Germany and France, the supposed collective backbone for Europe.

Expanding on the work of Michel Foucault, Miller and Rose (2008) explain that the 'birth of the community' marks a departure from governing a supposed collective social body to defining a new territory for the administration of collective life.

Faced with all this, I suppose the collective public attitude now is "Blimey... er... I'll get back to you".

Social norms are often shared by a group of individuals, supposing a collective identity (Polletta 2001; Pretty 2003; Burton 2004).

This sort of reasoning can be found in works of natural history that try to explain the existence of conflict-suppression mechanisms (Wilson and Sober 1989; Wilson and Hölldobler 2005; Wilson and Wilson 2007) and in modelling work that pre-supposes a collective-level evolutionary process and then finds that it acts to strengthen conflict-suppression (Michod and Roze 1999; Michod 2006).

If NATO is supposed to be a collective defense treaty, we need to think about how we ensure it is a collective action, and that there are not some countries free-riding off the rights of others.

"In some ways, as artists, we are supposed to be creating collective experiences," Kwan said.

The technology has changed, but in London, for example, there is usually a queue at King's Cross station for the sign marking "Platform 9¾", from where the Hogwarts Express is supposed to leave – a collective fantasy almost entirely driven by print.

Folk music (including country, blues, and other vernacular styles) was supposed to be anonymous a collective art passed along orally from singer to singer, generation to generation, sometimes culture to culture.

ADAM GOPNIK: Now, this is what the internet is supposed to be all about; collective intelligence, from coast to coast, coming together to identify an issue ( new abundance of wild turkeys) and look for its explanation.