Sentence examples for competing tribes from inspiring English sources

Britain has always benefitted from having tensions and competing tribes inside it.

It is overwhelmingly Sunni, so the fights are not ethnic or sectarian but between competing tribes.

The relationships between, and agendas of, the various and competing tribes and Islamist groupings are now well-mapped.

Unlike its neighbouring Chechnya, Dagestan is patchwork of competing tribes, religions, ethnicities and loyalties, more than 150 of them.

Buchanan's "conservatism is more the traditional European blood-and-soil type, where primary loyalty is to one's own tribe in a world of competing tribes".

Syria's eastern deserts have descended into a lawless and lethal tract of land under the sway of competing tribes and warlords.

A tribe of notorious smugglers by the Syrian border, they were being pushed out of their own area by a competing tribe that had struck a deal with Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, the homegrown extremist group that American intelligence officials say is led by foreigners.

The Aztec, or Mexica, were one of the competing Chichimec tribes.

The appointment came as the prime minister named a new cabinet after weeks of bargaining among the competing cities, tribes and militias that formed the loose coalition that overthrew the Qaddafi government but are now struggling to share power.

Even in a telephone interview, Dr. Oestreicher, who still lives in Eastchester, turns his scholarly knowledge into a riveting story of a people struggling to survive amid the turmoil of the American Revolution, when the political landscape included not only the British and Americans but also competing Indian tribes.

A statewide ballot measure for a off-reservation tribal casino in the Central Valley town of Madera faces stilff opposition for competing gaming tribes, who have far outraised supporters.