Sentence examples for clan ties from inspiring English sources

It was not easy to break traditional family and clan ties, however.

The regime has always relied on family and clan ties, on an Alawite-dominated intelligence and military establishment.

Both men are believed to direct operations in Afghanistan from their haven in North Waziristan, where they have allied with local warlords and enjoy longstanding clan ties.

Yet old neighborhood and clan ties continued to be used in recruitment and some of the most powerful Palestinian security organizations remained outside the reform regimen.

In one area, a group of Somali-Americans has used its own money to set up a police force and a rudimentary court system based on clan ties.

(Pakistan left some soldiers and its paramilitary forces along the border, but the paramilitaries were tribal soldiers who had clan ties to the Taliban and were less professional than Pakistan's regular Army).

Genghis Khan started his victorious career as a solitary fugitive, and his first followers were men who, like himself, lacked any powerful kindred ties because their clans had met with ill fortune in war.

From this era comes a traditional account that the home of the MacIntyre chief was saved by the clan's ties to the MacDonalds.

Currently a resident of Nashville, Tenn., where other members of the performing Judd clan have ties, Judd must establish a new residence in Kentucky by November 2013.

A police spokesman told the Guardian those arrested belong to an "Arabic-Kurdish clan" with ties to the arms trade, drug smuggling, and racketeering.

By contrast, Dr. Grantly, the old archdeacon, has limited administrative power but considerable real power, because it is rooted in a set of wide, deeply entrenched clan-family ties.