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communal

for or by a group rather than individuals dipping each his bread into a communal dish of stew — Paul Roche a communal settlement in which all earnings and food were shared a group effort relating to a small administrative district or community communal elections in several European countries

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Simple sentences

The communal aerial of our block of flats was struck by lightning.
There is a communal kitchen in the dormitory.

Movie subtitles

Under the present circumstances, i. i doubt very much whether we would be permitted to do anything but. transfer you to a communal group of people with your disability.
What would be the organic nature of communal experiential space shared among eight psychosomatic entities?
The communal telepathic experience translated into the larger social national context would presumably carry with it its intrinsic qualities of willing reciprocal dependency and a mutual experiential creativity.
I'll give it back, but you too will give something, for communal good.
Kind of what you'd call a communal thing, or someone else would call a communal thing.
What do you think of this new communal living?
What communal living?
You could call it a communal farm, I suppose.
Now, Mr. McClean, I'm sure that we're all touched by the communal arrangements between yourself and your roommates, but they're not really pertinent to this case.
It's funny, but being ill makes me lose my usual tolerant and easy-going approach to communal living.
It's this communal street life that the high-rise block is destroying.
We are setting up communal kitchens.
Sabotage to the communal kitchen.
That it's communal land that belongs to everyone.
The communal life is definitely an exquisite Chinese water torture.
Don't worry, it's simple communal work.
Half a day and already enfolded to the communal bosom.
How can I be doing if the man from communal Department comes to see me?
She refuses the communal rules.
I've been behaving like a damn fool, and I wish to beg your communal pardons, and especially yours, Horace Tabor.
I now officially open. the Moscow Railway Workers'. Communal House of Recreation.
These are communal latrine trucks for the entire building.
It is on a communal basis.
How can I be doing if the man from Communal Department comes to see me?
You are sabotaging our communal early morning exercises!
We are talking about a communal excursion here, so everyone must take part in it.
We were married under a communal estate settlement.
Bit of communal hymn singing?
Severe deficit in the communal balance,. the number of unemployed is greater than that of the inhabitants,. poceadas streets, destroyed buildings. the historic invaded by rats,. in short, a kind of year 1000.
They wanted to exchange this apartment for two communal flats.
We are the only species on Earth, so far as we know to have invented a communal memory.
I had lived in a communal apartment, too.

News and current affairs

Lebanon is an ideal social laboratory because it has a large number of geographically segregated religious groups and strongly enforced communal boundaries.
Non-governmental and non-profit civil contracts bind people together for communal, religious, social, and political activities.
Individual accountability would somehow break the chain of ethnic identity and communal vengeance.
It was a Polish version of the ancient Greek agora, a meeting place of all citizens, a locus of a free conversation about our communal and individual future, about all kinds of problems and their solutions.
Even where high levels of social transfers actually do reduce inequality (and therefore presumably increase cohesion), they may undermine inter-communal relations if ethnic minorities are perceived as being strong net beneficiaries.
More generally, the logic of the electoral marketplace means that no single communal identity can dominate others.
Unprincipled politics, cults of violence, communal rage, and macabre killings of religious minorities have all combined to shake people's faith in the political system's viability.
Constitutional law was defied and horrendous communal violence against religious minorities became frequent.
Although events like the Stalinist terror were outside the Polish tradition as he conceived it, Geremek knew that a communal identity demands consciousness of the entirety of its history, all its good, all its evil.
But if high turnout, albeit based more on communal self-interest than belief in democracy, was the good news from Iraq's election, the bad news is the leadership they chose, which is not democratically minded.
Liberal reform parties that tried to transcend communal identities and appeal to all Iraqis did not do well.
Some non-democratic systems seem to evoke deeper support, because they are based on religious or national communal solidarity, and because closed societies minimize doubt, drift, and criticism.
Across the region, anti-Chinese communal violence was widespread.
Similarly, markets are a powerful solvent of religious and communal antagonism, by creating incentives to cooperate with those whose identity and ultimate commitments differ from our own.
Churches and mosques were soon being burned in communal riots.
Soviet audiences watching films with apolitical themes nonetheless learned that people in the West did not have to stand in long lines to purchase food, did not live in communal apartments, and owned their own cars.
And French military intervention in the Central African Republic has not put an end to severe inter-communal violence there.
Today communal violence ravages his home state Gujarat.
Were Gandhi alive to witness today's communal violence between Hindus and Muslims in Gujarat, he would sink into despair.
But instead of seeking to encourage these civic (and economic) virtues, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) use threats of communal violence to boost its electoral ends.
Even the venerable Congress party - which led India's struggle for independence - manipulates religious, communal and caste rivalries so as to boost its chances of forming government.

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