Sentence examples for group of tribes from inspiring English sources

Mr Ruto is one of the most powerful leaders of the Kalenjin group of tribes.

Chin, group of tribes of Mongol origin, occupying the southernmost part of the mountain ranges separating Myanmar (Burma) from India.

The painting was made to show Australian government ministers and officials the ancestral lands and sacred places claimed by a group of tribes from the region.

They belonged to the Osco-Sabellian group of tribes and lived (c. 600 bc) in the valley of the upper Liris River.

The ancients often called this group of tribes Iapyges (whence the geographic term Iapygia, in which "Apulia" [modern Puglia] may be recognized).

Some of the killings in the Rift Valley appear to have been premeditated by elders of the Kalenjin, a group of tribes that speak a similar language.

Another group of tribe members, including a nephew of General Younes, fired a rocket-propelled grenade into the city's empty courthouse and engaged in a gunfight with rebel security, leaving a tribe member hospitalized, said Hazma al-Menefi, a rebel fighter involved.

Several villages or hamlets formed a tribe, and groups of tribes sometimes organized into powerful confederacies.

Among the usual stellar attractions will be the flamboyant Mardi Gras Indians, neighborhood groups of "tribes" that parade, chant and dance in handmade costumes featuring brilliantly colored feathers and beads.

Two large groups of tribes in the middle Caucasus then acknowledged their subjection to the Russians, the Ossetes in 1802 and the Lezgians in 1803.

It has indeed geographical importance in so far as the grouping of tribes for purposes of taxation naturally implies their local vicinity; but it is in no sense a description of the various units under Darius' rule; nor can we even infer that these districts and groups of districts are in all cases separate "satrapies" or governorships.