Sentence examples for communal arrangements from inspiring English sources
The community is close-knit, with many living in communal arrangements, with younger members supervised by older "guardians", who often take their earnings in return for food and lodgings.
Others – often when there's a common ethnic background – are communal arrangements in which the tenant and the owner become one family, eating together, helping each other navigate the new land.
The forests, scrubs and upland pastures were declared state property, though only of de jure nature since previous communal arrangements continued to persist.
Here the critic needs to identify what is lost by giving up on private property and private families, and the critic needs to show that this is more valuable than any unity and extended sense of family the communal arrangements offer.
Still, when he is pressed to defend the communal arrangements (449c ff)., Socrates focuses on the guardian classes (see, e.g., 461e and 464b), and it seems most reasonable to suppose that the communism about families extends just as far as the communism about property does, on the grounds that only the best people can live as friends with such things in common (cf. Laws 739c-740b).
In both, residents own their homes outright, but agree to participate in the communal arrangement.
So, if you don't like this communal arrangement, try, "I appreciate all your shopping, Sis, but I'm going to start doing it for myself".
"It's cool to have a house you can treat like Play-Doh," agrees Scott Pterodactyl, a 29-year-old artist who lives part time in a treehouse off Interstate 10 and part time in a communal arrangement with two other members of the collective Homemade Parachute.
Co-op parenting: Single parents are coming together, whether through informal networks or communal living arrangements, providing a trusted organic support system.
Today, communal living arrangements of various sorts are appealing to a broad group of single women.
Many Africans have communal social arrangements which mean that the costs of having extra children fall on the village rather than the family.
