Sentence examples for highly communal from inspiring English sources

MacIver upheld the idea that societies evolve from highly communal states to ones in which individual functions and group affiliations are extremely specialized.

These last eight episodes seem to be building into a cultural and highly communal television event that will stretch over two months with viewers anticipating, watching, discussing and sharing.

Conservatives' contentions that the founders believed in minimal government and maximal individualism, for example, are countered by the findings of scholars like Gordon Wood that the American revolutionaries sought to create a strong federal government and conceived of a highly communal and at times anticapitalistic version of liberty.

For the Akan, judgments about personhood are not matter of merely academic interest, but play an important role in shaping and supporting their highly communal social structure.

As highly communal creatures, the cities they build can seem invasive.

Those scholars claim that, in order to prevent another helot revolt, Lycurgus devised the highly militarized communal system that made Sparta unique among the city-states of Greece.

The high prevalence of smoking, combined with the highly connected communal structure meant there were many possible sources of cigarettes.

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In addition, the personal and communal factors were extremely highly correlated (r = 0.92), suggesting similarity and redundancy.

Communal sex in highly-chlorinated public baths may not be to everyone's taste.

The quadrennial events, with their idiosyncratic procedures and highly scripted programs, are at heart communal exercises for both the participants and the audience.