As many analysts have pointed out, the plans — known as nationally determined contributions, or N.D.C.s — are, collectively, not nearly enough to avert catastrophic climate change.
(Or so it seemed to me: I reached for a six-pack of the old-style cans recently, and felt some mythic classic-rock, classic-car stirrings as I cracked one open. If young beer drinkers are collectively not exactly suckers, they are at least highly and sadly suggestible).
But there is reason to hope that we as a species are collectively not as dumb as many of the specific politicians currently occupying positions of power.
The media, and I say this with affection, is collectively not that bright: If the president says something, they will cover it, and if the president is pushing back against some scandal, they will cover that scandal.
While it is understandable to provide some in vivo physiological validation/extension of the results, the findings are collectively not nearly as persuasive as the RNAseq data itself.
Because Mr. Woods had such a great and singular talent, we were collectively willing not to poke into his life off the putting green.
Next, the basecalls for the four libraries were pooled and only positions that were collectively covered not more than 200 times were retained (to avoid repeated sequences).
We were collectively negligent in not adequately addressing the view that our excessive spending and borrowing caused the deficit.
Such episodes were collectively indicated as events not classifiable as recurrent, in contrast with the truly recurrent CVD events.
Therefore, there were collectively 688 H. bacteriophora ESTs not matching to any of the ESTs of FLNs.
