Sentence examples for in a clan from inspiring English sources

Membership in a clan is no protection.

Membership in a clan is traditionally defined in terms of descent from a common ancestor.

Ms. Calderone is one in a clan of lithe-framed women buying Gap Kids wares for themselves.

Perhaps his most important innovation was the basing of individual political responsibility on citizenship of a place rather than on membership in a clan.

Jodie Thompson, an M.B.A. in a clan of managers who trained on the job, seems to move on the fringe of the inner circle.

Ms. Johnson's enthralling memoir, her first book, is about growing up on the road in a clan of what she calls Holy Rollers.

Lying in my tent each night, I can hear the calm, slow whoops produced by immigrant male hyenas to announce their presence in a clan.

The heart of this memoir, about growing up in a clan of "honest criminals" of Siberian origin in the Moldovan breakaway republic of Transnistria, is in the annotation.

In other societies, a woman typically weds a cousin outside her social group, like a maternal cousin living in a clan led by a different patriarch.

"When the whole group territory is on the line," Dr. Holekamp said, "all these unrelated individuals join forces and engage in a clan war".

Timothy E. Reilly was the toastmaster, the speechmaker, the mayor of the family -- the gregarious and easygoing fourth of six children in a clan that counts 48 first cousins on his mother's side alone.