Sentence examples for small clan of from inspiring English sources

That nearly matched the weight of the small clan of big, mostly local shareholders that in effect control Telecom Italia with only 22.5% of its shares.

Belongs to a small clan of vampires who do not feed on humans but live on the less appetizing blood of animals.

He said Mullah Omar is probably hiding in the areas controlled by his small clan, like the town of Qalat, 100 miles northeast of Kandahar.

It was getting late and I was about ready to call it a day when, just as I hit the crest of a shadowy depression in the mountainside, I caught a glimpse of her, a beautiful doe, the matriarch of a small clan that foraged behind her.

Her guardian, a Dutch trader, was part of a small clan who helped establish the Methodist presence on St . Lucia

But some experts are skeptical, saying that the bones represent nothing more than a small-sized clan of Palauans.

Some evolutionary psychologists have suggested that we have an innate sense of fairness left over from our days of living in small clans.

The remaining 88 clans from the total of 115 clans were predominantly small clans; only three clans contained more than 4 genes.

Whichever of C 1 and C 2 contained the largest number of leaves was used to root the tree, thus choosing the smaller clan as sister to C 0. If the selected sister clan contained only genomes from a single group at a particular given taxonomic level, the count of partners between G 0 and the group represented by the sister clan was incremented by one.

A small intellectual elite among the Tsimahafotsy clan of Ambohimanga and the nobles (andriana) believe that only Ambohimanga possesses the ancestral benediction (hasina) to serve as the national capital and imbue national leaders with the legitimacy and wisdom needed to rightly govern the country.

Sundiata belonged to the Keita clan of the Malinke people from the small kingdom of Kangaba, near the present Mali-Guinea border.