Sentence examples for * the communes from inspiring English sources

By 1915 some 20 percent of communal households had left the communes, and about 10 percent had taken the further step of consolidating their strips into one holding.

The following year work officially began on dismantling the communes.

Discussion Group with social leaders of the communes of Chiloe (Region X Los Lagos.

Only one of the communes — Jonah House, in inner-city Baltimore — lasted beyond the seventies.

Birbiglia plays Miles, whose three-man/three-woman group, the Communes, thrives artistically but struggles financially.

Last month it wrote to the communes' residents saying it intended to "decant" them.

It appears set to match that and also to increase its majorities within the communes.

Meanwhile, states and municipalities will be forced to transfer part of their revenues to the communes.

Many of the communes belonging to Île-de-France are still classified as rural despite their proximity to Paris.

From the communes the signori obtained their titles, the authority to control the communes "according to their own will," and the right to pass on this grant to their chosen successors.

The new town encompasses the commune of Évry, formerly Évry-Petit-Bourg, and the communes of Bondoufle, Courcouronnes, and Lisses.