The Council can only comment on amendments affecting the nation as a whole.

From personal issues to problems affecting society as a whole.

The aim of torture was not to make people talk, but to affect the group as a whole.

Any one of these smaller movements, if altered, affect the movement as a whole.

This may affect one's reading of the film as a whole.

The plan will affect the country's village population as a whole.

It is not to declare standards of care that affect society as a whole.

Instructions for device 0 affected the processor as a whole.

Under current law, it is enough to show that a fraud affected the market as a whole.

And I think there are lots of other things that can be done, but they won't affect the population as a whole.