Sentence examples for legitimate tribe from inspiring English sources
The state contended that neither of two rival factions met the federal standard as ongoing tribes, but federal officials decreed them one legitimate tribe.
Robert P. Storch, the assistant United States attorney who prosecuted the case, argued before the sentencing that Mr. Roberts had tried to corrupt the process by which legitimate tribes gain recognition from the government.
The experts I interviewed roundly asserted stability is still possible but wholly contingent upon the seating of a unifying national figure in Kabul, who is well-respected, uncorrupt and perceived as legitimate by all Afghan tribes.
The armed group claimed to represent the legitimate leadership of the Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians tribe in Madera County.
The group claims to represent the legitimate leadership of the Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians tribe in Madera County.
It consists of a lot of Libyans, including Libyan tribes, that back the government, and have a reasonable and legitimate fear that they will get the short end of the stick if the current Libyan government is replaced by one dominated by the tribes that back the armed opposition in Benghazi, as the New York Times documented here.
According to the most-skeptical view, the whole apparatus of tribe and genos was an invention without any Dark Age history to legitimate it.
This challenge is especially great in the parts of the country dominated by the Pashtun tribes and by Pashtunwali -- their collective code; In these areas legitimate authority comes from local leadership, and collective decision making is indigenous and specialized.
But even those sales were not legitimate, Hopi leaders say, because they may have been made under duress, and because the tribe holds that an individual cannot hold title to its religious artifacts — they are owned communally.
By "knowing the tribes," Sir Robert believed he could rule them through their "traditions" — something both more legitimate in the eyes of the tribesmen and cheaper for the colonial state.
