adjective
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Pertaining to a community
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Shared by a community; public
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Defined by religious ideas; based on religion
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communal politics
Examples of communal in a Sentence
The system of municipal and communal government remains practically unchanged.
A Jew can avoid the communal tax only by formally declaring himself as outside the Jewish community.
The synagogue had become a firmly established institution, and the personal and social life of the masses had come under the control of communal law.
There is also a communal solarium on top of the block.
The communal houses of the Pacific coast had bunks.
Avranches is seat of a sub-prefect and has a tribunal of first instance and a communal college.
The principal elective local administrative bodies are the provincial and the communal councils.
In less developed creeds the difference tends to remain in the background; but where sacrifices are found, solemn annual rites, communal, purificatory or expiatory, are celebrated, and these are held to be in like manner obligatory.
Most large towns contain important state or communal archives, iii which a considerable amount of research is being done by local investigators; the various societies for local history (Societd di Storia Patria) do very good work and issue valuable publications; the treasures which the archives contain are by no means exhausted.
During his absence several towns had asserted their independence; but he succeeded in subduing them without much difficulty and gradually suppressed their communal liberties.
Communal independence had probably been acquired as early as the end of the 10th century, but the first of the popes to reside in Orvieto and to recognize its communal administration was Hadrian IV.
Autun is the seat of a bishopric, of tribunals of first instance and of commerce, and has an ecclesiastical seminary, a communal college and a cavalry school.
Large herds of cattleare reared on the communal lands, which are productive also, of wheat, rapeseed and maize.
The German-Russian Mennonites, whose immigration became notable about 1874, furnished at first many examples of communal economy, but these were later abandoned.
The chief public institutions are the tribunal of commerce and the communal college.
All taxes levied by the state are paid by the communal council, which assesses the property owned by each family under its authority, collects the amount due and has the right to retain one-fourth, or more, for local requirements.
There are also communal colleges, a national school of music, and schools of hydrography, commerce and industry.
They spin a communal web near to large patches of their foodplant, Devils bit scabious.
Nevertheless, many schools are still defective, both from a hygienic and a teaching point of view; while the economic position of the elementary teachers, who in Italy depend upon the communal administrations and not upon the state, is still in many parts of the country extremely low.
He has recently completed his MPhil on rural livelihoods and communal rangeland resource in the Eastern Cape.
Adding to this 1,240,000 of communal and provincial subsidies, the product of the labor of inmates, temporary subscriptions, &c., the net revenue available for charity was, during i88o, 3,860,000.
The period for which both communal and provincial councils are elected is six years, one-half being renewed every three years.
Like communal revenue, provincial revenue has considerably increased since 1880, principally on account of the increase in the land and building surtax.
There are also communal colleges for boys and girls, a school of artillery and school of draughtsmanship. The industrial establishments include manufactories of earthenware and porcelain and metalfoundries, and tanning, leather-dressing, turnery, the making of wooden shoes and furniture, the weaving of woollen and other fabrics, dyeing, and the manufacture of machinery, paper and parchment are carried on.
Little care was bestowed on forestry in the 19th century, apart from government supervision of the national and communal domains, a task usually delegated to the local mayor.
The mayor is, further, responsible for the maintenance of the communal granary, forests and other property.
The central government cannot veto the election of a communal mayor or councillor.
Communal courts exist in every commune or municipality, and certain judicial powers are delegated to the police, under laws dated 1850-1904.
Communal dwellings on a much smaller scale occur at Meroka, east of the Astrolabe mountains.
Under Turkish rule it was impossible to obtain a liberal education in Bulgaria, and young Stambolov, after attending the communal school in his native town, was apprenticed to a tailor.
Bernay has a sub-prefecture, a communal college, tribunals of commerce and of first instance, and a board of trade-arbitrators.
He was educated at Amsterdam, first studying at the Athenaeum Illustre, as the communal high school of the capital was then named, and afterwards at the seminary of the Remonstrant Brotherhood.
It caused a slackening of that spirit of communal initiative which had awakened in the midst of unprecedented disasters.
In Burgundy, Dijon saw her municipal liberties restricted in 1631; the provincial assembly of Dauphin was suppressed from 1628 onward, and that of Languedoc in 1629; that of Provence was in 1639 replaced by communal assemblies, and that of Normandy was prorogued from 1639 to 1642.
Its educational institutions include communal colleges, ecclesiastical seminaries, and schools of drawing and music. The library has over 40,000 volumes and there is a museum of antiquities and objects of art.
Neither the executive nor the Cortes may interfere with provincial and communal administration, except when the local authorities exceed their legal power to the detriment of public interests.
He played a great part in organizing the Jewish communal life of the middle ages.
The division of the buildings into numerous small rooms is understood to signify that they were used as communal habitations, possibly of priestly orders.
The homes are set in 1½ acres of communal grounds, each with their own unfenced gardens and vegetable plots.
Putting up and replacing TV aerials unless in a communal area.
If you live in a building with a communal Ariel i would advise you to get yer own one put up!
Instead there are condensing communal boilers feeding each pod.
The property has the added bonus of communal gardens & private off road parking.
A communal bookshelf where employees bring in books they enjoyed is a great way to get people talking about books.
Each house has a communal telephone which will receive incoming calls.
It is Vivan's juvenile friends whom we hear in jingoist defense of the Gujarat carnage or other flagrant displays of communal fascism.
The communal cemetery over the road had a fascinating plaque on the wall.
Outside there are gardens to the front, side and rear and also communal parking.
Guests visiting the property are entitled to use of the pretty communal garden.
Work, production and ownership were all communal, and in these spheres what concerned all was discussed by all.