"For most of them, it was their first collective experience," he said.

These are people with a lot of collective experience and knowledge.

They provide images of a collective experience that is otherwise elusive.

They're trained, and their collective experience probably exceeds the age of the world.

They speak to a child's subconscious and form its collective experiences.

"We're having a collective experience, which is different than riding in a car or on a bicycle," he said.

"In some ways it was one of the few high points of the 'collective experience' for me."

Yet while they have served in government, there is little collective experience in running the state's top executive office.

It is then necessary to undergo even deeper reflection about our collective experience of the years 1974-1999.

Let us bring to bear our collective European experience.