Sentence examples for self-governing communities from inspiring English sources

Schools, Dörpfeld believed, should be self-governing communities, free from control of both church and state in internal affairs.

Boys Town and Girls Townwn of Rome remain self-governing communities supported largely by the organization that he founded for that purpose in the United States.

The Chávez government deserved credit for sharply reducing poverty and for its policies of promoting self-governing communities and Latin American unity, Chomsky said.

Under Ottoman rule the major religious groups were allowed to establish their own self-governing communities, called millets, each retaining its own religious laws, traditions, and language under the general protection of the sultan.

There have been some significant steps – the sharp poverty reduction, probably the greatest in the Americas, the [social programme] missions, and the self-governing communities look like promising initiatives.

Fire Island is about families and extended families, and countless summer betrothals, self-governing communities, unlocked doors, outdoor living, a serene roadless place in the sun at the doorstep of the most vibrant metropolitan area in the United States.

They established a self-governing community, complete with schools, medical care and a newspaper.

I am a manager, or so I'm told: as a tenured professor at a private university, I belong to a self-governing community of scholars.

Unlike the self-governing community of Banff to the southeast (which lies within Banff National Park), Jasper is still administered by the national park authorities.

Mir, in Russian history, a self-governing community of peasant households that elected its own officials and controlled local forests, fisheries, hunting grounds, and vacant lands.

But for five years after World War II, Bergen-Belsen functioned as Europe's largest self-governing community of Holocaust survivors.