8 sentences with 'community'
Example sentences and phrases with the word community and other words derived from it.
• « The group instituted a community reward fund and set up a hotline for calls from witnesses whose identities are guaranteed to be kept confidential. »
• « However, even in polemics where citizens did not directly vote on laws, there was a strong sense of community, from which the concept of civic virtue developed: the idea that the highest moral calling was to place the good of the community above one's own selfish desires. This concept was almost unparalleled in other parts of the ancient world. »
• « In Medina, Muhammad was much more successful in winning converts. He quickly established a religious community with himself as leader, which made no distinction between religious and political authority. »
• « In turn, a central concept of Islam is that of the worldwide community of Muslims, the Ummah, meaning "community of believers". »
• « When Muhammad died, there was immediate trouble among Muslim Arabs. He did not name a successor, but he had been the definitive leader of the Islamic community during his lifetime; it seemed clear that the community was destined to have a leader. »
• « Philip IV also proved incredibly astute in creating new taxes and in attacking and seizing land and property from groups such as the French Jewish community and the Knights Templar, whom he plundered (the raid on the Knights Templar began in 1307). »
• « The best known Calvinists in the American context were the Puritans, English Calvinists who left Europe (initially fleeing persecution) to try to create a perfect Christian community in the New World. »