"If the individual decides to take the training individually and then gets motivated or does an act on his own, you cannot level that as a collective thing from Pakistan, or say that any sort of help is being given to them, " he said.

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And secondly, there is no such thing as collective guilt.

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For one thing, the collective-dominance doctrine has been weakened in the EU's own Court of First Instance.

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Whichever way you slice it, yoga is fast growing and not likely to slow down, which is probably a good thing for our collective consciousness.

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Collective action isn't quite the thing among those who have already made it.

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Certainly it's a thing we've come to feel is indispensable to our collective buoyancy.

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"The thing that really brought the world to a better place in 2008 was genuine collective action involving both the developed and the developing world through the G20, " he told the BBC.

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But from skinny jeans to meggings, the only thing we know for sure (but not really) is that the world's collective sperm count is slowly being compromised in the name of men's fashion.

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