In cases where "community" was meant more abstractly, it was often in reference to the political community in a democracy — a group not known to each other but bound together in a solemn and real way.
In use since the 1990s, the term is an adaptation of the initialism LGB, which itself started replacing the term gay when in reference to the LGBT community beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, as many felt the term gay community did not accurately represent all those to whom it referred.
They'll laugh at an inappropriate joke about another race of people (everyone has and it's OK to admit it) but when they hear the N-word of the F-word (in reference to the LGBT community) or the S-word, when speaking about Hispanic, it's an all-hands-on-deck witch hunt and the persecution of Paula Deen is a perfect example of that.
"I'm one of the Cubans that Fidel calls the Miami Mafia," he said, in reference to the Miami exile community that the Cuban state-run news media often portray as malicious and anti-Cuban.
The term "plant-friendly" system identification has been used within the chemical process control research community in reference to the broad-based goal of accomplishing informative identification testing while meeting the demands of industrial practice.
A further benefit of a formalisation of class definitions is that this would allow disambiguation of different class definitions that are used by different communities in reference to the same entities.
Imminent crisis "This is not normal," exclaimed Gurara Bekel, a community health worker, in reference to the many cases of malnutrition he's witnessed this past June.
So, another cost that I never hear calculated in reference to our community is the threat to Gullah/Geechee food security.
Why is it, then, that every time the urban commons is mentioned it is in reference to a community garden?
The concept of witchcraft in Africa is largely folklore nowadays, a neo-colonial stereotype usually used in reference to a community with a lack of modern medicine, education or access to adequate healthcare.
