But critics feel that there is a danger that by setting up a stall in the local Waitrose, Fairtrade is simply preaching to the converted who assuages their collective middle class conscience by paying slightly more for a product in the belief that they are helping people in the developing world.

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She says the collective began with class members undertaking research projects in their free time, volunteers from outside of academia and professional cartoonists who came in to talk to the students.

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The investing class has instead pulled its collective head back into its weathered shell and mentally retreated back to the (relative) safety of looking at their own homes as a preferred investment class.

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By virtue of the collective failure of the Class to follow the procedure set forth in N.

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And if we want to increase our collective ability to pay, we must do so by increasing our collective ability to earn , not by class warfare and government fiat.

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Baseball's collective bargaining agreement not only mandates first class jet and travel accommodations for road trips "if practicable"--any exception that has players flying coach must include a minimum of three seats per two players--but also to spring training in February and back to their off-season homes in October.

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But when a collective judgment is reached that a particular asset class has been bid up too high, dollars are pulled and the asset class shrinks in value.

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But the sheer magnitude of the human tragedy of the second world war puts it in a class of its own, and its relative closeness to the present day makes claims on the collective memory that more remote horrors cannot.

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