(n.) A French theory of government which holds that commune should be a kind of independent state, and the national government a confederation of such states, having only limited powers. It is advocated by advanced French republicans; but it should not be confounded with communism.
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.
Ownership
Definition:
(n.) The state of being an owner; the right to own; exclusive right of possession; legal or just claim or title; proprietorship.
Example Sentences:
(1) It isn't share ownership but the way people are managed that's critical.
(2) Profit for the second quarter was £27.8m before tax but the club’s astronomical debt under the Glazers’ ownership stands at £322.1m, a 6.2% decrease on the 2014 level of £343.4m.
(3) Andrew and his wife Amy belong to Generation Rent, an army of millions, all locked out of home ownership in Britain.
(4) Norwich Ownership Delia Smith and her husband Michael Wynn Jones own 53.1% of the club’s shares; deputy chairman Michael Foulger owns approximately 16% Gate receipts £12m Broadcasting and media £70m Catering £4m Commercial & other income £12m Net debt Not stated; £2.7m bank overdraft, no directors’ loans.
(5) Ownership is not the problem, affordable homes for people are what are urgently needed and will, it seems, need a new government.
(6) Unethical conduct in research can be divided into five categories: 1) falsification of data, in which the researcher manipulates results, provides data without experimentation, or biases the results to give a false impression of their value; 2) failure to credit others (former colleagues, students, associates) for research results or ideas; 3) plagiarism, use of other's published material (ideas, graphs, or tabular data) without permission or credit; 4) conflicts of commitment or interest in which work or ownership in a private firm in some way conflicts or detracts from the duties to the institution they represent or allows private gain through the individual's employment at the institution; 5) biased experimental design or interpretation of data to support public or private groups that have provided financial support for research.
(7) It said a government investment of £12bn could build 600,000 shared ownership homes, enough to give almost half of England's private renting families the opportunity to buy.
(8) The BBC should not be forced to close any channels or axe any programmes as part of any review of plurality and ownership in the media industry, according to a submission the broadcaster has filed with media regulator Ofcom .
(9) Concomitant with this changing mix of ownerships, revised reimbursement plans are being proposed for psychiatry.
(10) And for him, that project has to start with a history lesson: he wants to see Labour relearn the lessons of 20 years ago, when Tony Blair fought off objections from the trade unions to redraft Clause IV of the party’s constitution, which had committed it to securing “common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange”.
(11) Their task was to reduce the size of the properties and change the tenure mix from private rented to shared ownership or open market housing.
(12) It is a conflict over ownership of the process of revolutionary change, one that has already brought violence back to Egypt's streets – and which Fahmy's project is wading straight into the middle of.
(13) Results suggest the importance of management effectiveness, regulatory climate, and hospital ownership (investor owned or nonprofit) as predisposing conditions of contract management.
(14) The transport secretary, Philip Hammond, indicated that the government had no appetite for the kind of structural tinkering that broke up British Rail and rushed the system into private ownership in the 1990s.
(15) "Our ownership model means that we can take a long-term view and we are as driven, determined and ambitious as ever to modernise our business.
(16) What we need is international action now, and that’s precisely what we are doing today with real concrete action in the war against tax evasion.” He said the transparency rules on beneficial ownership showed that Britain and other governments were working to shine a spotlight on “those hiding spaces, those dark corners of the global financial system”.
(17) The sale of Vodafone's 45% stake in its US joint venture to its partner Verizon Communications would end 13 years of an often fractious shared ownership.
(18) Japan is already embroiled in a long-running row with China over ownership of the Senkaku islands in the East China Sea, and has backed the Philippines and other South East Asian nations alarmed by the Chinese military build-up near disputed territory in the South China Sea.
(19) It is a complex action, as there are a number of landlords covering private apartments and affordable shared-ownership flats.
(20) Local ownership and opportunities for action Organisations that use data to effectively support improvement know that you often need to break it down to the local level to understand variation and make it amenable to action for staff.