Sentence examples for communities were given from inspiring English sources

Where communities were given degraded forest and instructed to regenerate it, they generally did so.

Elected officials from the city have questioned whether their communities were given less priority than others -- particularly in Manhattan, where some neighborhoods were without electricity for 28 hours or more.

Residents of several Fire Island communities were given permission yesterday to resume using tap water after an advisory over the weekend to boil water because of concerns about E. coli bacteria, said Steve Levy, the Suffolk County executive.

Jewish communities were given a degree of autonomy and stability in Poland that did not exist elsewhere in the late Middle Ages and early modern period.

In conflict-affected Democratic Republic of the Congo, displaced communities were given both extra nutrition and help with improving water, sanitation and hygiene.

The number of boys and girls enrolled in those schools increased and the children in the local nomadic communities were given unprecedented access to education.

With the help of OPDDIC, non-Zapatista communities are given access to lumber rights or land titles in ways that bring them into conflict with Zapatista communities.

"Let us poison your air and drinking water, or you might lost your job" is the choice that people in many communities are given.

Others see the battle as a classic case of small-town democracy grappling with cosmic questions in a state where local communities are given wide latitude to set their own school curriculums.

In her classic work Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action, Ostrom shows that under certain conditions, when communities are given the right to self-organise they can democratically govern themselves to preserve the environment.

Studies by the Centre for International Forestry Research and the World Bank have found that when traditional communities are given full legal rights to their land, they protect the environment efficiently and cheaply.