9 sentences with 'communities'
Example sentences and phrases with the word communities and other words derived from it.
• « In Eskimo communities there is talk of Sedna, a superhuman creature - the origin of life in the seas - who ruled the other world. Sedna had been human and of gigantic stature. »
• « Given the rich dietary options in the region at the time, people lived in small communities for millennia without feeling compelled to build larger settlements. »
• « The pharaohs sent communities of Egyptians to colonise the conquered lands, both to pacify those lands and to exploit the natural resources in order to increase royal revenues. »
• « Although Rome would rarely extend actual citizenship to entire communities in the future, the assimilation of the Latins into the Roman state set an important precedent: conquered peoples could be won to Roman rule and contribute to Roman power, a key factor in Rome's continued expansion thereafter. »
• « Rome was happy to grant citizenship to local elites who supported Roman rule, and sometimes citizenship could be granted to entire communities on the basis of their loyalty (or simply their perceived usefulness) to Rome. »
• « At first, these early monks spent almost all their time in prayer, but in time, most monastic communities came to embrace useful work as well as prayer and meditation. »
• « Emperor Leo III, who ruled from 717 to 741, decided to take matters into his own hands. He forced the empire's Jewish communities to convert to Christianity, convinced that their presence was somehow angering God. Then he did something far more unprecedented than persecuting Jews: he attacked icons. »