Other writers quote instances where whole communities have become degenerate.
Huth[52] quotes a number of instances where communities have lived for generations without crosses and with no apparent degeneracy, while other writers tell of high percentages of degeneracy.
Many efforts have been made to investigate the occurrence of degeneracy in the offspring of consanguineous marriages, by studying communities in which such unions have been frequent, but the results are untrustworthy.
A more than Russian despotism would not have sufficed to carry the authority of government and the restraints of law into communities so depopulated of freemen, so filled with slaves, and so far removed from the seat of power.
There were, moreover, but thirteen States in the confederacy, nearly all of which dated their settlement and their existence as political communities from about the same period, and all had passed through the same revolutionary history.
Circumstances had made it impossible that the benefits and privileges of the Union should be confined to the original thirteen communities by whom it had been established.
Communities were taxed for the upkeep and relief of the prisoners in the jails in their communities.
It was the charter which distinguished the borough community from the other communities existing in the country.
Parish communities shall repair the highways for four days each year using oxen, cart, plough, shovels, and spades.
The use of this open field system instead of compact enclosures worked by individuals was necessary in primitive communities which were farming only for their own subsistence.
Both held property in common; both had scattered communities which received guests one from the other; both avoided a light use of oaths; both taught passive obedience to political authority.
Nor have we to consider the special doctrines that have formed the bond of union of the Christian communities except in their ethical aspect, their bearing on the systematization of human aims and activities.
He thought that to inflict a signal penalty upon that city would strike at the root of the evil, and he referred to precedents where whole communities had been punished for the crimes of some of their members.
The other chartered communities were governed by men appointed by the king, but Connecticut and Rhode Island always enjoyed the democratic privilege of electing their own chief magistrates.
The entire absence of government, which has not kept pace with the extension of revenue-yielding communities, has left the weaker members of those communities exposed to the ruthless greed of the stronger.
The Indian communities had been everywhere deprived of their native weapons.
At the end of it a net full of fish is brought to the chief's house, and the people of the neighbouring communities are summoned by the blast of trumpets.
In the first place, it is a lie, and proven to be a lie by the contemporaneous history of communities no better equipped for ideal citizenship than the Anglo-Saxon, but better protected by systems of social quarantine.
In some advanced communities women now vote for officers of the school department and serve with distinction in school boards.
In England and America they are the neglected or unfortunate members ofcommunities who have been condemned by evil chance to be classified in the social category as "The hopelessly submerged ten per cent.
Parents may be harsh and brutal, communities may be cold and neglectful; but the angels must ever regard them with eyes luminous with tender pity.
Social Quarantine and Moral Quarantine are even more essential for the protection of communities and individuals than quarantine against epidemics of imported physical sickness.
Not long after serfdom had begun to disappear in the most advanced communities of Christendom a new kind of slavery was established in the colonies of European states.
The opinion that suicide is an offence against society at large is particularly likely to prevail in communities where the interests of the individual are considered entirely subordinate to the interests of the State.
The increasing coherence of the political aggregate, again, added to the strength of this sentiment; and so did the antagonism towards foreign communities and the natural antipathy or hatred to their members.
Nansen observes that all the small communities depend for their existence on the law of mutual assistance, on the principle of common suffering and common enjoyment.
Many cases referred to above imply that savages are by no means strangers to affection, and that in their communities there is not only mutual assistance, but general kindness of heart.
It is also noteworthy that, among the crimes which in savage communities are punished by the community at large, incest is particularly prominent.
Finally, in communities with a keen public spirit, especially in ambitious states frequently engaged in war, celibacy is regarded as a wrong committed against the State.
In primitive agricultural communities nobody voluntarily serves another, because subsistence is independent of capital and easy to procure.
As a matter of fact, the social union of agricultural communities is very close, and the households are often enormous.
Slowly, as in the case of the men, the conventual orders for women were formed in these communitiesand regulated by such rules as seemed best suited to their needs.
As a matter of course, moreover, in all the communities of the peninsula the persons of note who were not well affected to Rome were got rid of, so far as this could be accomplished by political processes and confiscations of property.
Communities on the mainland might be deprived of the right of bearing arms and become tributary; this arrangement was already the case with certain Celtic districts on the Po, and was introduced to a considerable extent in after times.
But the -de jure- suppressed communities of Italy, such as Capua and Atella, stepped into this gap (ii.
Throughout the war the frontier communities were most loyal supporters of the Revolution.
It was a condition which could not endure in communities where religion was still the chief intellectual and emotional refuge from the daily routine of commonplace duties.
And communities there were where men had forgotten the very names almost of Protestant sects.
Neither the lyric phrase of Burnaby nor the harsh verdict of Mary Harris fitly describes those interior communities that stretched from Maine to Georgia.
The success of popular self-government in these thriving communities is reacting on political opinion at home with a force that no statesman neglects, and that is every day increasing.
One is involuntarily led to these conclusions by a comparison of the art products of the Spanish-American communities with those of more barbarous races.
He said that he had seen the rise and fall, the decay and resurrection of many communities of this nature, but that, in his opinion, none had ever performed such wonderful things in so short a time as the South Sea Company.
Communities were not told what to do; there was no cut and dried program, but rather each community received special treatment suited to its particular needs, temperament, and physical characteristics.
In attributing ownership of lands to communities we must be careful not to confound communities with corporations.
Maitland thinks the early land-owning communities blended the character of corporations and of co-owners, and co-ownership is ownership by individuals.
They are divided up according to divisions, and the moral deportment of the different communitiesin which they are placed.
As I have already said, my village was singularized from other near-by communities of the same size on account of the Methodists having selected it for one of their Western strongholds.
What I should like to have you do is to go over our property and see whether our police force has been successful in ridding our lines, and, to some extent, the communities which they touch, from tramp immigration.
Far be it from me to put the blame on the university charter, but I am compelled to say that in all such communities the existing drunkenness and lewdness at least seem worse than in communities where liquor is sold and drunk openly.
The present situation was justifying her tenacious opinion that new communities were interesting.
Prairie-dogs live in great villages or communities which spread over many acres.
Battles between communities of different species are numerous, and the victorious community takes possession of the food-stores of the conquered.
The solitary and digger wasps do not live in communities as the hornets do, but each female makes a nest or several nests of her own, lays eggs and provides for her own young.
The communities of the social wasps are larger and their nests are often made above ground, being composed of several combs one above the other and all enclosed in a many-layered covering sac open only by a small hole at the bottom.
Their communities are large, including thousands of individuals, and the structural differences among the males, females, and workers are readily recognizable.
Insects that live in communities that form a multitude of contiguous cells; some of these are begun at the bottom of the sea and accumulated perpendicularly, one layer being continually deposited over another till the surface is reached.
The would-be lawyer might, in the same way, avail himself of the library to obtain an insight into those social mysteries that bind men in communities and necessitate human laws for the preservation of peace and order.
But then there are shipwrecks, inundations, plagues, and war, which sometimes exterminate entire communities at one fell swoop.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "communities" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
