Sentence examples for formation of a commune from inspiring English sources

It was in 1977, after temple members started accusing Mr. Jones of abuse and the news media attention around him grew significantly less favorable, that he moved his followers to Jonestown in Guyana, where despite an operating mode of paranoid tyranny he permitted the formation of a commune basketball team.

The club favoured local autonomy, direct democracy, the atheistic program of the Paris Commune, and the formation of a "Revolutionary army" to advance the popular movement.

The capital has the status not just of a commune but also of a department.

This week two leaders of a commune called Bountiful appeared in court to answer criminal charges.

The isolation of portions of many valleys such as those of the Rheinwald, Poschiavo, and Urseren by barriers of resistant rock or by prehistoric landslides was an impetus to the formation of communes and of the early Alpine cooperatives.

The housing and employment crisis in most of Western Europe led to the formation of communes and squatter movements like that of Barcelona, Spain.

The political structure Bookchin foresaw -- his approach to the revolutionary dream of establishing communalism or a "commune of communes" -- had little to do with the nation-state.

Factors such as commune area size and number of flocks in the communes may have an impact on the validity of this assumption by influencing the geographic dissemination of the virus within a commune.

We also considered the weighted average migration distance d i defined by, in which m ki is the number of migrants who moved from a commune k to given commune i, m i the total number of immigrants in commune i and d ki the distance between the communes i and k.

We have a creative community of people who work together — not a commune, but basically an artist commune.

"It's kind of a weird commune," she says.