Sentence examples for each clan from inspiring English sources

Each clan has its own style and set of interlocking themes.

Once a year, the men of each clan come together at an open place.

The confederacy was ruled by a karonga (king), whose authority was passed down through the leaders of each clan.

The genealogically senior man of each clan is its chief, traditionally its leader in war and its judge in peace.

The Bambuti divide themselves into patriclans, each clan numbering between 10 and 100 members and having one area of forest to which it loosely claims exclusive rights.

Administration was conceived mainly in financial terms, with each clan or family or tribe accepting Ottoman military leadership largely for the financial rewards it could bring.

Each clan of Bambuti is associated with a specific clan of villagers, and individual Bambuti have close economic and ritual ties to individual villagers.

Each clan was led by an assembly of elders, including the clan shaman (whose duties included healing the sick, traveling in the spirit world, and prophesying).

The whales of a clan are not all related, but within each clan there are smaller, close-knit, matriarchal family units.

They manage with little water and live in highly organised clans, each family with its leader and each clan with its chief.

Though the Bronfmans were never the Corleones, the family dynamic and fortunes of each clan--the real and the fictional--certainly have their similarities.