"clan" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Honor meant simply the respect of the local "honor group" - the family, the extended clan, the tribe, the religious sect.
- But even if the extended clan fosters resentment in Afghanistan, the family also helps fortify a fragile presidency.
- Does an extended clan mean nothing to you?
- His relatives, an extended clan, are demanding that he keep power over the 250,000-member Mamprusi tribe.
- In Africa, loyalty to the extended clan or ethnic group is often far stronger than to the nation-state.
- The whole extended clan depends upon their young maid - to bring ice, to bring affection.
- When someone is killed, revenge can be exacted not just against the killer himself, but all males in his extended clan.
- Both became family business patriarchs whose operations rely heavily on an extended clan in pivotal positions.
- Aside from his secret police, he held power by filling the government's upper ranks with members of his extended clan.
- Mr. Hussein told his biographer that he did not miss his father growing up in an extended clan.
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