The responsibility for making hard choices has to stimulate a new leadership and inspire a collective spirit beyond the experience of any living Iraqi.

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Managers and coaches have been known to encourage drinking sessions in a bid to instil a collective spirit that they hope will transfer to the pitch.

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The collective spirit of your mother, your father, your brother, your husband, your wife, your sister, your best friend -- that spirit lives on not only in you, but in your country.

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The argument goes that politics, at least in this country, depends less on individual - glib or lofty, depending on your taste - Western-style television performances and more on structures, local branches and a collective spirit.

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More than a mere matter of building roads and bridges and increasing access to cheap energy, the WPA was about restoring a collective spirit, a shared stake, in constructing the sinews of a more competitive, prosperous country.

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There, a spirit of collective irresponsibility takes hold: rather than reforming, or even seriously thinking about, the underlying policies, each country simply seeks to get as much as it can from the trough.

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"This is about our collective history, a story which demonstrates the generosity of spirit shown by people in this area, something which can still be found in Stoke-on-Trent today, " Ms Nadin said.

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Religion in the West no longer provides the kind of collective consciousness or glue that attenuates our isolation while contributing to the animating spirit that every healthy civilization must have.

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