Sentence examples for upon a collective from inspiring English sources

When the snow stopped falling here in the Northeast, it was like looking out upon a collective memory of winters past — farther past than last winter, that is, when crocuses were pushing out of the earth in early January.

Since in order to forge the Jewish people into a nation it was necessary to bind them to a single territory and decide upon a collective language — territory and language being understood as two key features of nationality in the 19th century — Zionism grappled with various choices for both.

Success also relies upon a collective sense of responsibility.

United Healthcare Workers East, said had been agreed upon under a collective bargaining agreement.

And there was the prospect of inevitable victory upon victory - a collective triumph of the national athletic will.

Historicity thus means making a decision about how to actualize (or act upon) salient elements of a collective past.

Watching CNBC those two days provided a lesson in how pointless such minute-by-minute coverage of the stock market is--how it distorts the way the market works and helps turn what should be a diverse, independent-thinking crowd of investors into a herd acting upon a single collective thought (in this case, SELL!).

"Minute-by-minute coverage" of Wall Street, he wrote, "distorts the way the market works and helps turn what should be a diverse, independent-thinking crowd of investors into a herd acting upon a single collective thought" -- whether to buy or sell.

Watching CNBC those two days provided a lesson in how pointless such minute-by-minute coverage of the stock market is — how it distorts the way the market works and helps turn what should be a diverse, independent-thinking crowd of investors into a herd acting upon a single collective thought (in this case, SELL!).

This exhibition is a collective reflection upon the dark complications of the human mechanism.

The crowd let out a collective wail upon realizing Backup's fate.