9 sentences with 'collective'
Example sentences and phrases with the word collective and other words derived from it.
• « Four centuries later, the formidable collective addiction to tobacco, alcohol and a multitude of stimulants or sedatives that pose a high risk to human health and life is evident all over the world. »
• « All the factors mentioned above, the quest for profit, for raw materials, the continuing power struggle between the great powers and the "civilising mission" reached their collective zenith in Africa. »
• « Thus, in a collective grab of African land, European states emerged from the Conference with the intention of taking over an entire continent. »
• « The major difference between them was that the Fascists discovered in World War I that most people were not willing to die for their social class, but for their nation. Fascism was, in part, a kind of collective movement that substituted class warfare for nationalism. All classes would unite in the nation, the fascists believed, for the greater glory of the race and the movement. »
• « From 1929 onwards, the Soviet state imposed collectivisation of agriculture, forcing millions of peasants to leave their farms and villages and move to new giant collective farms. Collectivisation required the peasants to meet state-imposed quotas, which were immediately set at unattainable levels. »
• « Instead, both nations (US and USSR) had sufficient instinct for collective self-preservation for the conflict to resolve itself in the form of technological and scientific rivalry, a huge and ongoing arms race, and "proxy wars" fought elsewhere that did not directly drag both sides into a larger conflict. »
• « His vision was of a united African league, possibly even a single nation, whose collective power, wealth and influence would ensure that external powers would never again dominate Africans. »
• « This was the high point of the pan-Africanism championed by Kwame Nkrumah described above, and in turn the non-aligned countries sincerely hoped that their collective strength could compensate for their individual weakness in the face of the superpowers. »