Sentence examples for of communal purpose from inspiring English sources

The conditions at Ambue Ari seem to instill a sense of communal purpose.

In classical Greece, funeral orations took a highly ritualized, two-part form: praise for the dead and advice for the living, advice that marked the transition from private mourning to a revivified sense of communal purpose.

In "La Chinoise" (1967), about a cell of five disorganized young French leftists — a student, an actor, a peasant, an economics logician, an artist named Kirilov, after Dostoevski's character in "The Possessed" — radical efforts scatter like grapeshot for lack of communal purpose.

In towns with a sizeable Japanese populace, the civilian government would fund the construction of at least one public shrine in each town, and in smaller Japanese settlements, community leaders would direct the construction of a small shrine for communal purposes.

The Panthers offered young, disenfranchised African Americans a sense of refuge and communal purpose.

The National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Fellowship, bestowed each year since 1982, is a singular honor with firm communal purpose.

They represent perspectives, interests and parties and come to life for particular political or communal purposes.

Most of the music was Christian, but the purpose of communal singing was not primarily spiritual.

A child of a media-saturated generation, she presented herself as a writer whose birthright is the remix, the use of anything at hand she feels suits her purposes, an idea of communal creativity that certainly wasn't shared by those from whom she borrowed.

In doing so they also create an atmosphere of communal responsibility, where nations, companies and communities can work together with common purpose to address the universal challenges of health and development.

As Greg Harrison, the director of "Groove," says, "Rave serves a powerful purpose in the modern Western world because those kinds of communal, cathartic experiences based on music have been factored out, or at least commodified, in our culture".