I accuse them of an inaccurate understanding of the tribal principle". The present Dutch crisis looks very different if you believe a tribal principle is at work.
It was natural for them to combine nomad tribal and Chinese bureaucratic principles of management in military and other departments of administration.
The people who persevered into this brutal winter were heroic, enduring harsh conditions and risking bodily safety for the wellbeing of the river, the tribal rights and their principles.
The law, introduced to curb uprisings by isolating tribal populations, "violate the principles of equality under law adopted by our Constitution and give legitimacy to discrimination and ill-treatment of tribal populations in India", according to a citizens' group.
Contractual partnerships between Native American tribes and pharmaceutical companies not only provide the tribes with a steady stream of royalty revenue, but also insulate biopharmaceutical patents from challenge in IPR proceedings through the invocation of long-established principles of tribal sovereign immunity.
According to most historical accounts, the colonists took over the land and condemned tribal members for their spiritual principles.
And though the state may be "a defining feature of advancing civilizations," in Iraq it "stands in contrast to tribal solidarity as an organizing principle".
Unfortunately, Judge Reed O'Connor of the Northern District of Texas upset this principle and limited tribal nations' abilities to protect Native American children when he declared the Indian Child Welfare Act unconstitutional last year.
The next important transformation of steppe life occurred when nomad peoples began to supplement their age-old tribal organization by borrowing Chinese bureaucratic principles for the management of armed forces.
