Sentence examples for tribal divides from inspiring English sources

The population is well educated; there are no sectarian or tribal divides; and there is a foundation of civil society.

And, frankly, given the competing political interests in Nigerian football, given the cliques and tribal divides, the vested interests and corruption, Keshi's achievement is greater than either.

With no sectarian, ethnic, religious or tribal divides, political and ideological differences do not turn into societal divisions, as they do in Iraq, Syria or Lebanon.

Some have expressed a more lurking concern: that in a protracted fight, it may grow difficult to maintain the unity that the opposition has sought to bridge religious and tribal divides.

There was an increasing realisation that by giving greater importance to our Islamic identity we could transcend and overcome the narrow sectarian and tribal divides that were widespread among us.

On my most hectic day, I spent the morning sitting in a dugout canoe while my guide paddled me down the river, and then sat by the pool and quizzed the lodge staff about the miracle of a country where tribal divides haven't blossomed into tribal hatreds.

Reasonable debate, not tribal dividing lines.

One of his points relies on the tribal divide of Iraq; about eighty-five per cent of Iraqis, the Shia and the Kurds, do not support Al Qaeda in any sense, while Sunni support for it is, according to Zakaria, "rapidly dwindling".

I love you!" crooned one elderly man to your (male) correspondent.In this section A fair dinkum Labor hero Mr Wen goes to Washington The black and blue house The temptations of victory Bookies and pimps Elvis lives, in Persian ReprintsA Pushtun, Zahir nonetheless sang mostly in Persian and appealed across Afghanistan's tribal divide.

Although today remained peaceful, the scene of neighbors standing on adjoining hillsides and staring at one another through binoculars while separated by a no man's land of strung barbed wire, high light stanchions and a stream deliberately flooded to make an impassable moat was a wrenching reminder of the tribal divide in the conflicted British province.

The Britons were themselves a divided people; although they shared the Brythonic languages, they were tribal, and divided into regional societies, and within them sub-groups.