Sentence examples for desert tribe from inspiring English sources

An ethnographer picks at the dying myths of a desert tribe.

Rather than being Palestinian - as was once believed - he probably hailed from the Bani Hassan, a Jordanian desert tribe.

In Frank Herbert's science fiction classic "Dune," a desert tribe known as the Fremen wear special clothing, called stillsuits, which recycle the body's water, enabling them to survive in an almost waterless environment.

"We've never built a piece with embroidery in mind before," said Altuzarra referring to a series of dresses that were specifically inspired by a scene from the film "Orlando" in which the protagonist wakes up as a woman in a Tuareg desert tribe.

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Saʿūd had been heir apparent since 1933; he had many ties among the desert tribes.

But their connection to desert tribes is more complex than the dance of biochemicals.

Roman policy seems to have been to maintain Nabataea as a buffer state against the desert tribes.

Before becoming king, Abdullah struggled to preserve an independent power base through his command of the National Guard, a large, paramilitary force drawn largely from desert tribes.

Other ruins show that in the Byzantine period Al-Khārijah's inhabitants became Christian, but raids by desert tribes reduced its prosperity.

During his adventure to unite the desert tribes of Arabia against the Turks in World War I, Lawrence reinvents himself while altering the destiny of a turbulent territory.