Sentence examples for communal practices from inspiring English sources

Banged together by parliamentarians and water specialists from the Coordinadora who gathered in La Paz, the new law gave legal recognition to usos y costumbres — traditional communal practices — by protecting small independent water systems, guaranteeing public consultation on rates, and giving social needs priority over financial goals.

He associated the heightened sense of safety with the economic and social viability of residential space and communal practices contributing to individuals' well-being (Newman 1972).

But ordinarily our judgments are "presumed innocent" of error until proven (or at least evidenced to be) guilty; this in turn is rooted in our communal practices, and is justified on pragmatic grounds (Wright 2000a, p. 152 153).

While it may be true that certain communal practices often, or even mostly, guide our behavior behind our backs, it doesn't follow that those practices ought to be valued, or reflectively endorsed in non-ordinary moments of existence, much less that the government ought somehow to promote these practices.

Not only there is no support in law for these communal practices, but there is a general feeling amongst its practitioners that the auditing processes the Polish state has put in place are divorced from the physical reality of the pastoral enterprise itself.

The report suggests that trauma interventions should utilize local communal practices for healing and restoring the social fabric of society, and that investment in living and economic conditions of the communities will help promote greater resilience to the impact of trauma.

Many disciplines have a close sense of community (I highlight crystallography which has a real sense of communal practice and goals).

Admittedly, Christians have sometimes been overly preoccupied with defending creedal assertions at the expense of communal practice.

What looked like a deviant act by an escape-seeking individual was simply a communal practice shaped by a common enterprise: it takes a strip club to smoke a reefer.

Such remarks, illuminated by Jaffa's frank admiration for what he takes to be systems of "irrefutable authority," reveal a fearful attitude toward our expanding world of human differences that distorts Aristotle's understanding of virtue as a communal practice.

According to this line of argument, if social or natural kind externalism is correct, having thoughts with wide contents depends on the presence of certain substances or communal practice in the environment.