(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.
Social
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to society; relating to men living in society, or to the public as an aggregate body; as, social interest or concerns; social pleasure; social benefits; social happiness; social duties.
(a.) Ready or disposed to mix in friendly converse; companionable; sociable; as, a social person.
(a.) Consisting in union or mutual intercourse.
(a.) Naturally growing in groups or masses; -- said of many individual plants of the same species.
(a.) Living in communities consisting of males, females, and neuters, as do ants and most bees.
(a.) Forming compound groups or colonies by budding from basal processes or stolons; as, the social ascidians.
Example Sentences:
(1) "We examined the reachability of social networking sites from our measurement infrastructure within Turkey, and found nothing unusual.
(2) You can see where the religious meme sprung from: when the world was an inexplicable and scary place, a belief in the supernatural was both comforting and socially adhesive.
(3) Handing Greater Manchester’s £6bn health and social care budget over to the city’s combined authority is the most exciting experiment in local government and the health service in decades – but the risks are huge.
(4) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
(5) Male sex, age under 19 or over 45, few social supports, and a history of previous suicide attempts are all factors associated with increased suicide rates.
(6) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
(7) 278 children with bronchial asthma were medically, socially and psychologically compared to 27 rheumatic and 19 diabetic children.
(8) However, the relationships between sociometric status and social perception varied as a function of task.
(9) But becoming that person in a traditional society can be nothing short of social suicide.
(10) Training in social skills specific to fostering intimacy is suggested as a therapeutic step, and modifications to the social support measure for future use discussed.
(11) The west Africa Ebola epidemic “Few global events match epidemics and pandemics in potential to disrupt human security and inflict loss of life and economic and social damage,” he said.
(12) Socially acceptable urinary control was achieved in 90 per cent of the 139 patients with active devices in place.
(13) Richard Hill, deputy chief executive at the Homes & Communities Agency , said: "As social businesses, housing associations already have a good record of re-investing their surpluses to build new homes and improve those of their existing tenants.
(14) The most common reasons cited for relapse included craving, social situations, stress, and nervousness.
(15) There was a 35% decrease in the number of patients seeking emergency treatment and one study put the savings in economic and social costs at just under £7m a year .
(16) The quantity of social ties, the quality of relationships as modified by type of intimate, and the baseline level of symptoms measured five years earlier were significant predictors of psychosomatic symptoms among this sample of women.
(17) Several dimensions of the outcome of 86 schizophrenic patients were recorded 1 year after discharge from inpatient index-treatment to complete a prospective study concerning the course of illness (rehospitalization, symptoms, employment and social contacts).
(18) From the social economic point of view nosocomial infections represent a very important cost factor, which could be reduced to great deal by activities for prevention of nosocomial infection.
(19) Significant changes have occurred within the profession of pharmacy in the past few decades which have led to loss of function, social power and status.
(20) When reformist industrialist Robert Owen set about creating a new community among the workers in his New Lanark cotton-spinning mills at the turn of the nineteenth century, it was called socialism, not corporate social responsibility.