Sentence examples for tribe based from inspiring English sources

"It was more, like, this is my tribe, that's your tribe, based on how you dressed," Laura Mulleavy told me.

Manouchehr Esmaili-Liousi was a 15-year-old from a nomadic tribe based in the mountains near the city of Dezful, in Iran's south-western province of Khuzestan.

Today's Washington Post mentions Karzai's pardon of several convicted drug traffickers from an influential tribe, based on what his spokesman said was "respect for their families".

In 1950, Hugh Tracey, a British-born ethnomusicologist, travelled to Kapkatet, Kenya, to record the native songs of the Kipsigis, a pastoral tribe based in the western highlands of the Rift Valley.

By Robert Sullivan Marcey Tree in the Wind Stefancik is a receptionist at the Honda dealership in Pompton Plains, New Jersey, and the chief of the Turtle Band of the Ramapough, a Native American tribe based in northern New Jersey.

Less clear are the relations, especially complex in the longhouse dances of the Iroquois, between the moieties, the complementary divisions of the tribe based either on kinship or on ceremonial function.

They sort themselves in complex tribes based on car make, driver, sponsor and team.

Each of you already belongs to multiple tribes based on such factors as your religious or ethnic affiliations.

For example: There are Yugur people who have restored, produced and commercially promoted the costumes of various Yugur tribes, based on considerable research.

Two major environmental groups, American Rivers and Trout Unlimited, offered immediate support for the proposal, as did representatives of the farm communities and the Indian tribes based along the river.

These tribes, organized initially on nothing more than residence and not on the old four Ionian tribes based purely on descent, would from then on determine whether or not a man was Athenian and so fix his eligibility for military service.