"To replace the NATO collective defence policy with one in which Scotland is isolated and on its own, is not just a wholly irresponsible policy for defending the country, but the financial costs, and so the taxes and threat to prosperity, would be enormous, " Mr Blair said.
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But he did not accept Lord Warner's remarks that Israel was pursuing a policy of "collective punishment".
Unsurprisingly, once we phrase tax policy as a collective exercise in fiscal masochism, our threshold for tax pain turns out to be very low.
Maybe we should dispense with all of the nonsense about dispassionate rational analysis and determine policy via the use of a collective Congressional mood ring.
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And while defending his government's austerity programme he, too, is talking about growth, more "collective support and collective responsibility" and a new eurozone monetary policy.
Even though exceptions were made for people who could prove that they had opposed Hitler, the expulsion policy was still an example of collective guilt or, as many pointed out, ethnic cleansing.
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Their collective net worth was recently estimated by the Economic Policy Institute to be equal to that of bottom 41.5 percent of American families.
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We believe it is our collective responsibility to develop a data-driven basis for policy and action.
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Instead it will have to present the collective view of the nine members of the new monetary-policy committee, who may disagree.
There is no real collective responsibility because there is no collective, just diktats in favour of increasingly badly thought through policy initiatives that come from on high.
There is also a danger that the outspokenness of disgruntled Lib Dems is eroding the convention of collective cabinet responsibility, which requires secretaries of state to publicly support government policy regardless of their private views.
But for others, the move may be seen as a bold - and strategically wise - attempt to defend the carefully constructed and heavily politicised system of collective bargaining, which has been at the heart of South African labour policy since the end of apartheid and which has, over the past few weeks, seemed on the brink of collapse.
IR You affect to regard the collective views of British economists as, at best, unreliable in matters of policy.
Equally, he has tried to play down one of Labor's most vulnerable points: its policy of returning to trade unions the power to negotiate wages on a collective basis.
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Groupon formed out of an existing company Mason founded while he was still in public policy graduate school called The Point.com a website focused on collective action, allowing individuals to start a campaign by asking other online users to give money or do something as a group, but only if the campaign hits a predetermined tipping point.
No matter how much policy makers try to accelerate the growth of alternative vehicle fuels, from alcohol to electrons, the collective impact will be miniscule in any meaningful time-frame.
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Instead, the Center for Security Policy believes that the President must take counsel from others, more representative of the American people and their collective interests.
The award says more about the world's love affair with Barack Obama and its collective sigh of relief that George W. Bush is gone than it does about the president's substantive foreign policy accomplishments.
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