Sentence examples for communal tie from inspiring English sources

Although dentistry is the common bond linking Fraternity members, this event transcends the profession and offers a communal tie that is unique to most professional organizations.

The weakening and near dissolution of communal ties also undermined the ability of Izalco's indigenous communities to act politically as strong autonomous allies of larger elite-led factions.

In his classic 1953 work, "The Quest for Community," the sociologist Robert Nisbet argued that in eras of intense individualism and weak communal ties, the human need for belonging tends to empower central governments as never before.

Maybe it was their close communal ties?

How do refugees protect these assets and preserve communal ties?

Poetry is not obliged to these communal ties.

After the war, Leighton launched a multigenerational study (still ongoing) to document the ways communal ties influence individual mental health.

Today, still, Africans' strongest qualities are fortitude to the point of fatalism, close family and communal ties, tolerance and an ability to enjoy life.

Many shared that confusion, as individual families began to experiment with independent forms of social and economic life, away from the unifying spiritual and communal ties.

On the other hand, the natural bonds of family and "village," as Hochschild rather nostalgically calls the vanished world of secure communal ties, aren't necessarily all she cracks them up to be.

These challenges are bound up in a growing social crisis — a retreat from marriage, a weakening of religious and communal ties, a decline in workforce participation — that cannot be solved in Washington D.C.