There is also possible a collective mediation, several States acting at the same time as mediators.
Of special importance are the collective interventions exercised by several great Powers in the interest of the balance of power and of humanity.
The estimates are always submitted "on the collective responsibility of the whole cabinet.
The anticipated trials will enable its members to plumb greater depths of consecration, soar to nobler heights of collective endeavor, and disclose in fuller measure the future glory of their destiny.
Wares; commodities; chattels; - - formerly used in the singular in a collective sense.
The collective organs by which a plant produces its fruit, or seeds, or reproductive spores.
A collective term for all the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or for all except the favorites in the betting.
A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
If the ball is lowered until the lid is in place, the leaves take a steady deflection.
I hope you may be a little in town next week, for the future seems to require the most careful consideration before any policy is submitted to the collective luminosity of the Cabinet.
All questions submitted by independent members, unless they affect our Executive action or the measures we have proposed, we shall treat as open questions, taking no collective responsibility for the decision of Parliament upon them.
I advocate the placing of Egypt under the guarantee and guardianship of united Europe, so that no one single Power shall be able to exercise there superior influence to another, so that collective authority shall restrain individual ambition.
We could also mention the great communal hunts of nomadic tribes, and an infinite number of successful collective enterprises.
They begin to perceive that in production a certain collective element is introduced, which has been too much neglected up till now, and which might be more important than personal gain.
We therefore propose to point out some of these most striking manifestations, and to show how men, as soon as their interests do not absolutely clash, act in concert, harmoniously, and perform collective work of a very complex nature.
Not the slightest distinction will be made concerning the share of each in this collective property.
These monuments erected to its citizens, products of the collective spirit, will serve as models to all humanity; they will be yours.
Under pain of death, human societies are forced to return to first principles: the means of production being the collective work of humanity, the product should be the collective property of the race.
In collective work, performed with a light heart to attain a desired end, a book, a work of art, or an object of luxury, each will find an incentive and the necessary relaxation that makes life pleasant.
As we see, their principles are: Collective property of the instruments of production, and remuneration to each according to the time spent in producing, while taking into account the productivity of his labour.
Has he developed the race consciousness, the race soul, as I said before, a collective soul, which so strongly marks other races more or less civilized according to our standards?
It will be observed that of the various works comprised in this collective edition, no small number consist of what by a wide extension of the phrase may be termed books of travel.
It is what a foreign writer calls, not inaptly, a collective race soul.
But most remarkable of all seemed the fact that this collective body added something to the stature of every boy that became a part of it.
The Infidel imitates the divine, and adopts the same mode of arguing, namely, by this substantiation of mere general or collective terms.
But far different is the regard due to the determinations formed by the collectivewisdom of the senate; a regard which ought to border upon reverence, and which is scarcely consistent with the least murmur of dissatisfaction.
Collective ownership in land appears to be the inseparable concomitant, if not the material basis, of such social conditions.
The income of the family, due to their collective labor, constituted accordingly their collective property.
All the moveables belonging to the household, as well as its whole income, constitute the collective property of the family, but not of its head.
Landholding, whether collective or individual, must be large enough to admit of coöperation.
These things are caused, it is true, by the action of men, but it is a collective action out of the control of the individual.
In return for its collectivecost men collectively get the enjoyment of social organization, markedly in contrast with the uncertain ties and hazards of primitive communities.
The result has been the rapid spread of employers' organizations, so that in industries where laborers are highly organized, two-sided collective bargaining has become more and more usual.
The difference lies further in the collective method of insurance, which combines the chances scattered among a number of persons.
A large part of the effort of trade unions is directed toward ensuring the use of collective bargaining.
The words of Justin evidently imply simply that the source of his quotations is the collective recollections of the Apostles, and those who followed them, regarding the life and teaching of Jesus.
But, when questions of a complicated nature presented themselves, they took as their colleagues other people of the villages, and the disputes were settled by the collective wisdom of the village elders.
The ultimate units are the individual men, and a nation or a church a mere name for a multitude combined by some external pressure into a collective mass of separate atoms.
He heartily liked the individual working man; but he had no sympathy with the beliefs which find favour with the abstract or collective working man, who somehow manages to do the voting.
With us the individual must bow to the collective wisdom of the church, divinely established.
This is common sense; and yet in religious matters forsooth, the private judgment of an ignorant and illiterate individual must be permitted to overrule the decision of the collective wisdom of learned theologians.
He gave up his natural rights and received in return civil rights, something less complete, perhaps, but more effective as resting on the guarantee of the collective power.
One is that a form of collective organization should be devised which should diminish the importance of the speculative market.
Is its extension necessarily an encroachment upon liberty, or are the elements of value secured by collective control distinct from the elements of value secured by individual choice, so that within due limits each may develop side by side?
But thecollective activity of the community does not necessarily proceed by coercion or restraint.
Here the "nation" is conceived as a collective whole, as a unit.
What it can do is to shift taxation step by step from the wealth due to individual enterprise to the wealth that depends on its own collective progress, thus by degrees regaining the ownership of the fruits of its own collective work.
Are measures of the kind under discussion to be regarded as measures of philanthropy or measures of justice, as the expression of collective benevolence or as the recognition of a general right?
It has, indeed, a certaincollective life and character.
The British State has little or no collective property available for any such purpose.
It needs little effort of detachment to appreciate the danger of any limitation of inquiry by the collective will whether its organ be law or the repressive force of public opinion.
That principle is and remains placed under the sanction of the collective Guarantee of the Powers signing as Parties to the present Treaty, with the exception of Belgium, which is itself a Neutral State'.
The neutrality of the Grand Duchy is 'placed under the collective guarantee of the Powers signing'.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "collective" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
