Saleh was little known, and not from the Yemeni élite, but he was skilled at manipulating the country's mixture of tribes, religious groups, and interested foreign parties — a feat he called "dancing on the heads of snakes".
"People in Sudan love the track team because they perform and they are a mixture of tribes and share rooms and eat together," Aden wrote in an e-mail message.
He thinks that Egypt, despite its history of strong state power, may now need to become decentralised to cope with the needs of around 84m people; even a small country like Libya may need a federal arrangement to accommodate its mixture of tribes and local interests.
It's because these are pluralistic societies — mixtures of tribes and religious sects, namely Shiites, Sunnis, Christians, Kurds, Druze and Turkmen — but they lack any sense of citizenship or deep ethic of pluralism.
We walked back to the house afterward, arms full of cheap malt liquor, and started our party, thumping a mixture of A Tribe Called Quest, OutKast, and Notorious B.I.G.
Doesn't it kind of make sense that they're a mixture of an African tribe and inside-out Canadians?
According to Abu Baker Mohamed Qanso, a Tebu member of the local government who leads the task force evaluating the town's damage, residents who fled the fighting — Ubari is a mixture of Tuareg, Tebu, and Alhali tribes — are returning, but very slowly.
Offaly led a mixture of Pale gentry and Irish tribes, although he failed to secure the support of Lord Darcy, a sympathiser, or Charles V. What was effectively a civil war was ended with the intervention of 2,000 English troops – a large army by Irish standards – and the execution of Offaly (his father was already dead) and his uncles.
We suppose that in Bulgaria the mutation c.5263_5264insC also has a Slavic origin since the modern Bulgarian nation originated as a mixture of Slavic, Thracian and Bulgar tribes more than 1300 years ago.
The ultimate goal, whether it will be a tech tribe, a prehistoric tribe, or a mixture of both.
"Up to 60 terrorists under the command of three leaders from Swat crossed from Afghanistan, killing 30 security personnel and burning six schools," he said, describing the victims as a mixture of local border police and recruits from tribes.
