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The predominant response among commentators to the sole television debate between Chancellor Angela Merkel and her challenger, Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, held two weeks before the election, was a collective yawn – all the more remarkable considering the historical events that overshadow this election.
The fan chart’s true meaning – “If economic circumstances identical to today were to prevail on 100 occasions, the MPC’s best collective judgment is that the mature estimate of GDP growth would lie above 2% on 50 occasions and below 2% on 50 occasions” – doesn’t even fit within Twitter’s 140-character limit.
For France and others, the key is collective action, both at home and abroad, which will require improved links between internal and external security agencies, together with greater risk awareness within civil society, along Israeli lines.
The European Financial Stability Facility, the European Stability Mechanism, and the European Central Bank’s “outright monetary transactions” scheme are all forms of collective insurance.
At the Paris climate talks last year, we witnessed the power of global collective action to address climate change.
But this can happen only if Europe devises a collective response that is capable of dealing with global migratory pressures.
Russia’s generals, we can assume, rejoice each time Trump refuses to endorse NATO’s Article 5 – the alliance’s bedrock collective defense clause – and instead poisons the alliance by railing against its leaders for their inadequate defense spending.
The UMNO’s program has put Sharia law, Sharia courts, and an extensive Islamic bureaucracy in place, a collective effort that has taken on a life of its own.
After decades of feeling obliged to drop the collective European head in shame for what was done to the Jews, people can finally say with an element of glee that Jews can be murderers, too.
Our collective future depends on it.
Fourth, the JLN and the GCEN are committed to measuring collective and individual progress.
Regardless of its effectiveness, the armed struggle waged by the PLO did empower the Palestinians and internalize a sense of collective dignity and self respect within them.
But if we harness our collective knowledge, include developing countries’ smallholder farmers in this effort, and maintain our focus on reducing poverty and protecting the vulnerable, we can have more fuel, more food, and greater prosperity for all.
That means cleaning up developed economies and working to prevent the massive expansion of industries that damage our collective health and future.
His counterpart at South Korea’s foreign ministry commented that his country would “never tolerate” Japan’s exercise of the right to collective self-defense on the Korean peninsula “without the [Republic of Korea’s] request or consent.”
His argument was that Asians were used to putting the collective good above individual interests.
It seems as though Americans can tolerate a society in which schoolchildren and other innocents are regularly murdered by deranged men with weapons bought on the open market, but erupt in collective hysteria when the killings are committed by people labeled as “terrorists.”
To sustain such a treasured legacy and defend democracy wherever it is threatened is our collective responsibility.
Christians believe that their views of right and wrong are sacred and universal, and that morality is a collective pursuit.
His view of the collective good was entirely individual.
Socialist and communist parties, no less than the Catholic Church, have firm views on right and wrong, and on what the collective good should be.
Might there be new ways to establish a moral basis for our collective behavior?
This is no basis for finding new ways to define good and evil or to establish collective meanings and purposes.
However, when deterrence becomes indistinguishable from collective punishment – barred under international law by Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention – it is far less likely to achieve its intended result.
The result has been a clear case of collective punishment in one of the most densely populated places on earth, with 3,823 persons per square kilometer.
In fact, Israel persistently conflates self-defense and deterrence, while employing collective punishment to advance its strategic aims.
With just 500 staff, and only a handful of overseas representatives, a foreign policy apparatus meant to embody the collective will of 27 EU governments is outspent and out-staffed by most small African countries.
The problem is that, while some Chinese do worry about refugees, “China” cannot be regarded as a collective noun with a singular view about anything; like any complex modern state, China contains many different views about many different issues.
Colombia must also pass a law dictating prison terms for anyone who “offers a collective pact to non-union workers that is superior to terms for union workers.”
But this required inventing a new kind of collective agency that could decide and act together, to which one could attribute - a la Rousseau -- a "will."
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