It is the collective failure of the political and policy-making process.

If one person is neglected in a hospital or care home that is a collective failure.

The result, the evidence of which is all around us, is a collective failure to maintain our generational integrity.

In both cases, we're witnessing a collective failure of creative vision.

"There was a collective failure here," one senior person in the intelligence world said.

I consider it to be a collective failure, but I honestly don't know what else we could have done.

I don't think that this is much to do with personalities it seems to be a collective failure of nerve.

Srebrenica was a collective failure of the international community, the EU included.

Our European institutions have suffered a major collective failure.

Today, however, we are still here defending certain decisions and maintaining that it was a collective failure.