Sentence examples for widespread collective from inspiring English sources

Given that in 2014 the man of the moment, Nigel Farage, believes that the way to lick the current social mobility problem is to bring back the grammars, and given also the widespread collective folk memory of the grammars as providing unrivalled, game-changing ladders of opportunity, it is a question worth asking.

Our demands as a civilization unblemished by a widespread, collective trauma--the kind only knowable through war on home soil--means that we must depend on news conveyed by reporters and commentators who, without the experience of collective trauma, can do no more than aim for an objectivity that keeps them open to testimony of first-hand accounts.

But when there is widespread discontent, collective behaviour soon becomes a prominent feature of group life.

Today widespread anger and collective passivity exist side by side.

The fact that a conservative organization has adopted the wiki brand speaks to the widespread recognition of the collective power of a networked audience, whether for building an encyclopedia or scrutinizing a cabinet secretary's travel expenses.

Both of them were active in Voina, a radical art collective that gained widespread popularity recently with a series of politically tinged actions, like a punk-rock performance in a Moscow courtroom, or a 210-foot penis painted, guerrilla-style, on a St . Petersburgdrawbridge, so that it rose up pointing at the offices of the F.S.B., the state security service.

The L.A. collective came to widespread mainstream attention with its retrospective at the L.A. County Museum of Art in 2011, part of the Getty-funded Pacific Standard Time series of exhibitions.

Within these communities, the decision to abandon the practice must be collective, explicit and widespread to bring about a positive change – and end female genital mutilation within a generation.

Eric King, deputy director of Privacy International, said "These widespread attacks on providers and collectives undermine the trust we all place on the internet and greatly endangers the world's most powerful tool for democracy and free expression".

Resistance to Stalin's collective farming had left widespread famine in Ukraine and things became even tougher when her father was killed at Stalingrad in 1943.

The major credit-rating agencies -- Standard & Poor's, Moody's Investors Service and Fitch Ratings -- are under attack for what lawmakers in Washington say was their collective failure to detect widespread financial fraud at Enron.