Sentence examples for communal authority from inspiring English sources

In the ensuing struggle for power, Gamaliel managed to concentrate all communal authority in his office.

Nor was it merely the unreformed monasteries and imperial bishoprics that lost; at times, communal authority emerged stronger than any ecclesiastical power in the region.

Rather than join the new central government in 1960, Mr. Denktash remained on the Turkish side, presiding over the communal authority.

His love of machines was combined with a belief in communal authority as the best means of accomplishing social reforms, and Le Corbusier directed his attention toward the problems of housing and urban patterns.

This explains why Greater Brussels was long governed by 19 separate communal authorities and not by one single authority.

And, apart from many local authorities to administer social affairs, there are also communal authorities, representing the various language groups, which have a say in education and cultural matters.

Complete lists of families who had lost relatives due to war-related violence in the region of Drenica were provided by communal authorities.

At the regional government's requests, representatives of the national authorities came to Pearl Lagoon to discuss the issues with regional, territorial, municipal and communal authorities and with the local universities (URACCAN and BICU).

The communal authorities and the Management Board reviewed each application and those selected were allocated forest lands at meetings where the respective head of the relevant Forestry Unit, representatives from the local commune authority and the district Department of Agriculture were present.

In the case of science the community of experts operates according to the norm of objectivity, the purpose of which is to guide scientific inquiry and justify its claims to communal epistemic authority.

Often an individual began by holding a communal office, such as Captain of the People, and gradually extended his authority until it was permanent and made hereditary in his family.