Sentence examples for communal function from inspiring English sources

That's not to say these places don't serve a more communal function.

That communal function is as crucial today as it was when John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

The concept of communal function in aerobic methane oxidation is also briefly discussed.

This communal function means that colleges have a good reason to treat some athletes differently from most other applicants.

Folk theatre was not a literary genre; its prime concern was to fulfill a communal function in the village.

When a concert hall's acoustics fail to welcome listeners into a world of felt sound, when they strip away resonance and emphasize distance and detail, they seem to alter the communal function of the concert hall.

As we saw in protests against a Muslim community organization in California this March and attempts to block the creation of New York's Park51 community center last summer, among others, Muslim communities have been repeatedly impeded from engaging in their ordinary communal functions.

Always fastidious, Dickinson began to restrict her social activity in her early 20s, staying home from communal functions and cultivating intense epistolary relationships with a reduced number of correspondents.

First, even as U.S. demand for matzos rose steadily with the growth of the American Jewish population, synagogues — which once provided congregants with ritual baths, kosher meat, and most of the matzo supply, either baking it themselves or hiring subcontractors — stopped performing many of their old communal functions, including matzo production.

First, even as U.S. demand for matzos rose steadily with the growth of the American Jewish population, synagogues which once provided congregants with ritual baths, kosher meat, and most of the matzo supply, either baking it themselves or hiring subcontractors stopped performing many of their old communal functions, including matzo production.

For instance, the old, established local "feast" and "wake" days of the industrial districts in the north of England were retained, serving many of the old communal functions yet also changing character and obtaining new functions in light of the spread of the railway and the advent of the modern vacation.