Sentence examples for small communes from inspiring English sources

The city grew from a rail and industrial complex formed in 1938 from several small communes (Vierzon-Ville, Vierzon-Village, Vierzon-Forges, and Vierzon-Bourgneuf).

The next morning, we set out along the Alsatian Wine Route, cycling through the small communes between Colmar and Sélestat on our way up to a 12th-century castle perched in the Vosges Mountains called the Haut Koenigsbourg.

As small communes, they simply never had the scale to be completely socialist.

Small communes were set up throughout the countryside, and 600,000 "backyard furnaces" were set up to make steel.

Digaale is a formal settlement, supported by a consortium of international non-governmental organizations (NGOs), but across Somaliland there are many informal camps for IDPs, internally displaced people, who used to live off the land but now have joined small communes in which they support one another.

Regional capital and other important Communes are divided into several IRIS and small Communes constitute one IRIS.

For me, a nuclear family is like a small commune in a way.

Mr. Viot grew up in Mont-de-Marsan, a small commune in southwest France.

("I couldn't build things with my hands," one man, once part of a small commune called Huckleberry Duckleberry, told me. "It was futile").

Mr Goatman lives in a small commune of two families, and he says some other members of the band also grew up in a commune in a tiny village in northern Sweden Goatt claim the village is under a voodoo curse).

In my small commune of Cormolain, with a population of just more than 400, I know of two other houses occupied full-time by British expats, plus at least a further five houses owned by expats as holiday homes.