Sentence examples for village groups from inspiring English sources

You decide,' she says and sends them off into their village groups to discuss it.

Microcredit works by encouraging village groups to pay small amounts into a collective pot.

The political structure of the Chokwe seems to range from tributary chiefdoms to autonomous village groups.

The people abandoned their villages, perhaps dispersing over the landscape or joining other village groups.

Village groups functioned similarly; a group of related villages might coalesce for a band-level hunt, while smaller groups were the more usual parties for work and socializing.

In following this strategy, the village groups were acting in their own best interests and suffered far fewer casualties during this period than the nomads.

The Guild for the Arts, another village group, sponsors concerts and musical performances throughout the year.

Authority in the village group was vested in a council of lineage heads and influential and wealthy men.

Before the advent of colonial administration, the largest political unit was the village group, a federation of villages averaging about 5,000 persons.

Groups of villages form larger territorial units united by traditions of descent from a single parent village or village group and by the possession of a common tutelary spirit and totem.

Mrs. Massaro took up tap dancing and performs with a Greenwood Village group that visits nursing homes and the local veterans hospital.