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What will be needed is the general will – no longer just individual or collective, but truly general – of the Republic of France.
In case you are worried that the Bond-Tatiana affair would spark too many off-color remarks from the collective eminences, the presence of German Chancellor Angela Merkel should keep things under control.
To this end, Abe’s modest step toward collective self-defense is a step in the right direction.
In recent years, large swaths of Central and Eastern Europe’s electorates have been mobilized by populist rhetoric, and the region’s governments have refused to cooperate with the EU’s collective response to the refugee crisis.
The challenge now for EU leaders is not to repackage old policies, but to express a collective vision and will to act together.
Straying outside of those parameters would lead to warnings and sanctions, but otherwise there would be some flexibility for member states to pursue the EU’s collective goals at a pace adapted to their national circumstances.
If European countries are to emerge stronger from the current crisis, they need to think bigger and put more faith, not less, in the collective enterprise that is the EU.
The appropriate forum for such collective governmental action is the G-20, whose next meeting is to be hosted and chaired by France.
Collective burden-sharing is in the long run the only non-catastrophic way out of Europe’s current crisis, but that requires a substantially greater degree of political accountability and control on a European level.
A critique of individualism in the name of collective values occurs frequently in the Pope's pronouncements.
We need to know why some forms of collective irrationality gain a stronger grip on us than others.
But there are many smaller-scale examples, such as Oklahoma City, which lost one million pounds of collective weight in a population of about 600,000; we hope the people involved will join with HICCup to share their experiences, good and bad.
In a football match, the rituals – the flag waving, the national anthems, the collective chants –and the language that is employed (the match starts with a “breakout of hostilities,” one “bombs” the goal, blows up the defense, launches “missile”) reinforce the perception of war by other means.
But such episodes often play out according to distinct patterns – though usually after the events that comprise them have faded from our collective memory.
Whatever the reason, the fact is that as long as humans fail to organize a collective and comprehensive defense, infectious diseases will continue to wreak havoc – with disastrous consequences.
What is required is a policy on the part of the global community that mixes military strength with a willingness to negotiate and interact, a policy of collective strength and collective flexibility.
Rather than agree on a fair division of costs, whether of the financial crisis or of welcoming refugees, governments try to minimize their obligations and shift them onto others – thereby increasing the collective costs.
A common energy policy must be based on the single market and collective planning of investment, while also accounting for the mix of sources and purchases from third parties.
In addition to channeling a more constructive form of nationalism, the semifinalists and their fans also embodied effective collective action, altruism, openness, and tolerance.
We can get more bang for our collective buck, peso, and real, and find effective, efficient, enduring paths to a more sustainable, inclusive, and prosperous future.
For me, as UN Secretary-General, collective social and economic security is a basic principle of justice – global social justice.
For today we have before us an opportunity to re-invent how we as countries work together to deliver collective solutions to our collective problems.
State employees would be granted the right to engage in collective bargaining, but would have no right to strike.
Last year, with the New York Declaration, governments around the world made a collective promise to invest in refugees and the communities hosting them.
He joined with Tudjman and the national movement in 1989, becoming Prime Minister, and briefly, as Croatia's representative in 1991, served as ex-Yugoslavia's last collective president.
Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty in the mid-1960’s reflected an era of national optimism and the belief that society should make collective efforts to solve common problems, such as poverty, pollution, and health care.
In their private lives, Americans have become addicted to consumerism, which drains their time, savings, attention, and inclination to engage in acts of collective compassion.
Yet cooperation within the SCO remains focused on national rather than collective objectives, because its members’ interests vary so much.
We were less clear about what new type of European collective security should be created.
Incorporating the new democracies would make NATO a Pan-European instrument of collective defense.
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