The transitivity we observe is likely due to to economic, political, linguistic, and religious clustering that are subsumed under country labels.
With about 7 households per square mile, and assuming that households celebrating Christmas are clustered (which seems logical given religious clustering), that means that Santa has to cover around 94 million square miles of households.
One option would be a right-religious cluster, which would have to include ultra-nationalists who oppose any concessions to the Palestinians, to achieve the 61 votes needed to control the 120-seat Knesset.
When religious conservatives cluster over here and liberals over there, we undermine the integrity of the gospel.
Though many of the country clubs tend to cluster along religious lines, many Catholic and Protestant clubs have grown accustomed to having some Jewish members, often as spouses in intermarriages.
Follow the street as it wends its way to Old Town, a ratty cluster of religious iconography shops burning incense, unkempt artisan studios and sloping guesthouses with twisted chimneys and ornate flower-patterned balconies.
At 8,000 feet on the edge of the desert plains of the San Luis Valley beneath the Sangre de Cristo Range, this town and its environs have about 1,500 residents and two dozen different religious centers, including a cluster of Buddhist monasteries, a Catholic monastery, a Taoist retreat, a Hindu ashram, a Shumei center and several American Indian sanctuaries.
It is a way of life, an historical organization, a subset of the Christian community, an ancient, global institution as well as a cluster of religious practices and forms.
As about 100 activists began marching across the bridge, it became pretty clear that the only people who could see the messages of love were the bee swarm of journalists and a cluster of religious protesters who had come to tell everybody they were going to hell.
During spring 2008, several measles clusters were identified among students at private schools operated by a traditionalist religious group; secondary household clusters also occurred (4 ).
There was, however, some clustering by religious and ethnic group, still evident today in the old synagogues on the southern Concourse, and those churches farther north that are still in use.
