Mitsubishi, for instance, started life in 1870 running the ships of the Tosa clan from an island in southern Japan.
Wilson said that Yanukovych, who was elected in 2010 and faces parliamentary polls later this year, was part of a clan from Donbas, a Russian-speaking industrial part of eastern Ukraine.
To give readers a concrete example of the Camorra's penetration, he turned to somewhere less exotic - Aberdeen - and the investments of a clan from Mondragone, a coastal town north of Naples.
For the past six months, protesters have taken to the streets, taken over government buildings and threatened political kidnappings in an attempt to remove the "Shinawatra clan" from power – a reference to the former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was deposed by a military coup in 2006 and whose party, or variations of it, have won every election in Thailand since 2001.
May 17 2010 May 17: Mumford & Sons, a folkish clan from London with a sprawling sound.
Watching this movie, in which four generations of a clan from Buenos Aires cram into a mobile home and drive to a wedding on the other side of Argentina, is like finding yourself stuck at a family reunion in the middle of nowhere.
A second man, whose three-week-old groin wound seeped a tangerine slime, said that Jisr al-Shughour and the Sunni Arab area that surrounds it has long been considered by the Assad regime, which is made up of a clan all from a minority Alawite Muslim sect, to be potentially disloyal.
And yesterday, with the Favre clan watching from a Lambeau Field suite, it was as if Big Irv made sure that Brett completed 26 of 38 passes for 319 yards and a touchdown, a 23-yard dart to tight end Bubba Franks, with no interceptions, no fumbled snaps, no botched handoffs.
One of them is the Chiu clan, which from a Greater China foothold has emerged as a regional provider of subluxury accommodations.
At a time when the Safavid rulers, descended from a Turkmen clan from Eastern Anatolia, spoke Turki among themselves, the Ottoman sultans took pride in mastering Persian to perfection and speaking it at court.
