Sentence examples for commune that from inspiring English sources

Its port, La Maddalena, is the administrative centre of a commune that includes all the islands.

Golf not only draws the keen eye of many a local politician, but the opening of a new club can bring prestige to the commune that runs it.

One even came from Pomerol, the small right bank commune that is home to some of the most celebrated producers like Pétrus, Le Pin and Trotanoy.

Mr. Hinman suspects that they date from the years when the law commune that served the Black Panthers had its headquarters on this floor.

Ventimiglia was the seat of a county from the 10th century and later of a commune that fell under Genoese domination.

In Watermelon Sugar (1968) is about life in iDEATH, a self-sufficient, complacent commune that is surrounded by "the Forgotten Works," the obsolete remnants of a destroyed civilization.

So they formed communes that were non-hierarchical and self-regulating, disdaining politics and rejecting alliances.

With the quick suppression of communes that arose at Lyon, Saint-Étienne, Marseille, and Toulouse, the Commune of Paris alone faced the opposition of the Versailles government.

Its archaic aspects—such as the autonomous communes that form the basis of Swiss citizenship reflect political continuities that have endured despite often dramatic social change.

It also recommended that the 19 communes that make up the Brussels region consider cancelling all other major events due to take place.

He said if governments were disbanded, people would organise themselves into peaceful democratic communes that would run their own affairs, without police or laws or taxes.