What's the difference between communal and municipal?

Communal


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to a commune.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Federal Penal Service rejected a request from Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova to serve their remaining time in Moscow; given the high profile nature of their case, they are afraid for their safety in the communal environment of a correctional colony.
  • (2) Communal riots are not unique to Gujarat, but the chief ministers of other states have not been blamed when pogroms have erupted on their watch.
  • (3) The increase in movement of people both within the highlands of New Guinea and also to and fro between holo- and hyperendemic lowland areas and the highlands by policemen and semi-skilled personnel in one direction and by labourers in the other, together with a great increase in potential breeding sites, were virtually inevitable consequences of the development process as the intense communalism and geographical isolation of the highland people was broken down.
  • (4) Diarrhoea can be prevented by improving communal sanitation and personal hygiene, and by giving breast as opposed to bottle feeding of infants.
  • (5) Nico Stevens from Help Refugees said at least 150 people had so far lost their shelters, but many of those had remained in the camp, sleeping in tents or communal buildings.
  • (6) Female mice will combine their litters into a communal nest.
  • (7) But the system still relies on a high degree of intrusiveness and communal pressure to achieve targets.
  • (8) Any place of mass communal touch is a potential magnet for spreading disease - such as children's playgrounds.
  • (9) During the process of differentiation and forming of the department and later the Institute of General and Communal Hygiene was the hospital hygiene an essential task of research work.
  • (10) The study confirms that a communal orientation enhances satisfaction with a best friendship and that conflict and negativity detract from it.
  • (11) In this study the views of a group of communal farmers to tick control are described and the impact of these views upon adoption of other strategies is discussed.
  • (12) At a press conference in Delhi, a BJP spokesperson, Nirmala Sitharaman, said: "The violence in Assam is completely communal … it is a problem of illegal migrants."
  • (13) Peaks of pollution not associated with rainfall episodes could have resulted from the practice of communal laundering in the near vicinity of the wells.
  • (14) It would mark the first occasion that a chemical borrowed from the world of medicine became a legal, communal, publicly available form of stress relief.
  • (15) Through the searing summer heat, the Mexican immigrant to California’s Central Valley and his family endured a daily routine of collecting water in his pickup truck from an emergency communal tank, washing from buckets and struggling to keep their withering orchard alive while they waited for snow to return to the mountains and begin the cycle of replenishing the aquifer that provides water to almost all the homes in the region.
  • (16) She excitedly described how all the women were singing and clapping as they waited together in a communal cell.
  • (17) The established irregularities of family and communal feeding can be one of the causes of appearance of the diseases due to deficient or surplus nutrition in pupils of Subotica.
  • (18) "In 2010, Warrap was hit harder than most by internal communal violence," Barrie Walkley, the US Consul-General in Southern Sudan, told IRIN at the inauguration.
  • (19) They say its haram [sinful] because of the content of the films and people being there communally.
  • (20) Back in Duran Duran's heyday, the only communal fan experiences were concerts, playground discussions or sporadic missives from distant pen pals.

Municipal


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government; as, municipal rights; municipal officers.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a state, kingdom, or nation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Hamilton-Wentworth regional health department was asked by one of its municipalities to determine whether the present water supply and sewage disposal methods used in a community without piped water and regional sewage disposal posed a threat to the health of its residents.
  • (2) A minimum of 4 sheeps' heads, obtained weekly over 24 months from the Pretoria Municipal Abattoir, was examined for infestation.
  • (3) In 2013, the town’s municipal court generated $221,164 (or $387 for each of its residents), with much of the fees coming from ticketing non-residents.
  • (4) The doses were calculated as average monthly doses for each of 454 municipalities during 36 consecutive months after the accident in spring 1986.
  • (5) Since July 1, 1990, Nalbuphine has been used as an obstetric analgesia at the Municipal Women's Hospital in Cologne-Holweide.
  • (6) As corruption consistently ranks as a top concern for Spaniards, second only to unemployment, and with an eye on upcoming municipal and regional elections in the spring, Spain’s political parties have been keen to appear as if they are tackling the issue.
  • (7) 131 cases of the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) among infants born in the Municipality of Copenhagen during 1956--1971 were analysed on the basis of data collected prospectively by the infant health visitors and abstracted from police reports.
  • (8) In a cohort of 99 families with a newborn infant in a multi-ethnic poor socio-economic municipality 35 mothers were depressed during the first year.
  • (9) A study was carried out on the basis of research data of the deaths due to all kinds of accidents and violence of 550 children of less than 15 years of age, resident in the municipality of S. Paulo, State of S. Paulo, Brazil, which occurred during 1985.
  • (10) Conservatives have called for federal funding to be curtailed if a municipality maintains a “sanctuary” policy.
  • (11) Distribution of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) in sewage wastes at a municipal sewage treatment plant was studied, showing that the great bulk of PCBs entering such a treatment plant become adsorbed onto the grit chamber solids and the sludge that is passed from the anaerobic digesters.
  • (12) One of the more controversial American public health issues is fluoridation of municipal water supplies.
  • (13) In the municipality of Ostersund, Sweden, we have developed five courses for school personnel concerning children and health.
  • (14) Rangoon's top municipal officials understand the problem.
  • (15) Phage-type patterns and antibiotic susceptibility have been examined in 904 Staphylococcus aureus strains from general practice in the Copenhagen municipality, in 1107 strains from hospitals in the Copenhagen municipality and in 18,028 strains isolated in 1988 from inpatients all over Denmark.
  • (16) A small municipality of about 2,000 inhabitants on a large plain (that of the river Po, which flows across the whole of Northern Italy) was chosen as a model to study the level of genetic isolation of a population which is not delimited by clear geographical barriers.
  • (17) Monitoring the landfill site is necessary; there has been a trend to recognize that municipal solid wastes may be hazardous and to provide separate secure handling, treatment, and disposal for their dangerous constituents.
  • (18) State, regional and municipal public administrations remain politicised and ridden by patronage.
  • (19) The exiled municipal authorities agreed – perhaps sealing the fate of the city even should it be cleared one day for repopulation.
  • (20) The hypothesis that low-level lead absorption is a risk factor for learning disabilities in school children was examined in the municipality of Aarhus, Denmark.