"base" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Each of the seven largest groups fighting the 1979-89 Soviet occupation was tribally based.
- These are essentially code words meaning that any new party cannot be tribally or regionally based.
- The three main opposition parties - which are fractured, disorganized and tribally based - are not seen as posing a viable threat to the governing party.
- We understand their concern to avoid tribally based parties.
- Since most of the opposition parties are tribally based and each has a youth wing, the result could be bloodshed.
- More than 330 blacks have died in the last 13 months in fighting between the United Democratic Front, a multiracial alliance, and Inkatha, a tribally based black group.
- Unlike regular militaries, which are built by training diverse recruits to work together, paramilitaries are drawn from politically reliable groups, creating ethnically or tribally based units.
- A decade later, when the war-weary Portuguese withdrew in 1975, he became one of the contenders in a three-way tribally based struggle for power.
- Laws were passed mandating that political parties could not be ethnically or tribally based; however, it has been hard to make this work in practice.
- In 1993 he was deeply rattled by a tribally based military rebellion and assassination attempt that he only narrowly escaped.
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