The local communities (tribes, districts, villages) in some parts of Afghanistan have been alienated by poor governance and feel disenfranchised through the lack of district elections.
He said he was appointing Ray Mabus, the secretary of the Navy and the former governor of Mississippi, to develop a Gulf Coast restoration plan in cooperation with states, local communities, tribes, fishermen, conservationists and gulf residents.
Communal words and phrases like "community," "collective," "tribe," "share," "united," "band together" and "common good" receded.
"Tweeting, sharing, there is a community, a tribe, built up around [them].
This was no random assortment of individuals, though; it was a community, a tribe, and from time to time little ritual dances erupted.
Beginning with the deaths last April, in Libya, of three other beloved friends and photojournalists, Tim Hetherington, Chris Hondros, and Anton Hammerl (British, American, and South African respectively), the death toll to our community, our tribe, has been unusually hard.
Their portraits and their stories compel attention, not because they have endured worse than others, but because their miseries are so commonplace, because they stand for what thousands of Iraqi families have endured, directly or through ties of community and tribe.
The initial focus of attention here may be either our physical environment (the land on which we live, our natural environment) or else our social environment (our community, our tribe, our nation or, generally, the people we meet with) but further reflection may lead to its more universal expansion.
I had found a community, a tribe, and though it would take me years to put words to it, I had found my life philosophy.
Social capital is your network, your community, your tribe -- the people you have around you that you can count on and pull resources from.
