Moreover, this is an analogy between plant life, seen as developing according to a single pattern, and human collectives - in other words, a metonymy.
A similar process of 'approximation' took place with the alternative collectives and citizens' initiatives and the state.
The norm provided collectives with a natural incentive to monitor their own members' behaviour.
Each household became responsible for its contractually assigned output quota, and for its share of taxes and the collective's other expenses.
They form collectives, as cell aggregates, neural centers, and coordinated neural centers.
The entire arm control system includes all the collectives, and through them, the constituent neurons.
Since the early 1980s, collectives and private grain traders have gradually been allowed to trade grain.
In order to meaningfully assert this, these collectives must be capable of expressing certain attitudes, beliefs, or values.
Skeptics characterized many shtetl collectives as "dwarflike" and lacking in future prospects.
In his approach, the nouns listed in and would not be considered as collectives.
Unlike internal plurals, 'genuine' collectives cannot be preceded by the plural determiners these, those, and numerals.
Physicians may belong to both corporate and bargaining collectives that, if untrustworthy, may influence the trust that patients have in physicians.
We also trust individual physicians as physicians, as representatives of their voluntarily selected collectives.
The final curtain on collectives has not been drawn.
Output from foreign-funded firms in 1991 grew much faster than that from state-owned enterprises, collectives and private domestic concerns.
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