"In a country with a cultural mesh like Yemen where individual tribes and regional identities are distinct and fiercely guarded, and there is the second highest rate of per capita arms ownership in the world, starting a war is akin to lighting a fuse on a bomb," Hisham Omeisy said, shortly before another explosion shook Sanaa.
WHERE TO STAY Alta's five small base-area lodges have their own distinct personalities and fiercely loyal clientele.
The Paulicians were fiercely iconoclastic, adhered to a very distinct Christology and rejected the authority and practices of the official Byzantine Church, following their own leaders.
Fiercely proud of both its architecture and its distinct neighborhoods, Chicago is losing entire tracts of older buildings.
At Knickerbocker, he helped manage 76 campaigns — roughly three-quarters of them successful — and practiced a distinct brand of politics: cunning, idealistic and fiercely competitive.
While the Sardinians, or Sardi, have adopted the Italian tongue of their latest landlords, they cling fiercely to Sardo, their native language, and are recognised as a distinct ethnic group from their mainland counterparts.
A book that begins with such a distinct sense of place — a neighborhood in New York City enlivened by fiercely held ideologies — ends in the vacant psychological space of an airport in a world fractured by fear.
This British musical comedy star combines two distinct strains of British theatrical performance, one demure and semioperatic, the other fiercely zany; imagine Sarah Brightman crossed with Gertrude Lawrence.
A singer who interprets lyrics with a concentrated attention to detail, Ms. Friedman brings together two distinct strains of British theatrical performance -- one demure and semi-operatic, the other fiercely zany.
The various groups or tribes have often been fiercely independent, have clashed with one another at times, and have independently grafted Islamic tenets and practices onto their distinct local cultures.
