Word: tribalisms
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...Numbers like these concentrate the minds of Labour MPs. Certainly they feel gratitude to Blair for leading them out of the political wilderness into power, and they also share a tribal conviction, seared into their consciousness from 17 years of Tory rule in the 1980s and 90s, that disunity equals death. But now even Blair loyalists are thinking he may be past his expiration date...
...this far and to have the same aspirations and goals and the ability and perseverance to do these things—I mean, he could have done anything, anything he wanted to do,” she said. “He could have gone home and become the tribal chairman. He could have done policy work.” Tomorrow Lussier will dance in Radcliffe Yard for the Harvard Powwow, a celebration of Native American tradition during ArtsFirst weekend. With a swirling shawl, the spinning dancer is meant to look like a butterfly...
Instead the conflict has become a series of bloody, tribal-based turf wars that have spilled across the border into Chad. "There's terrible fragmentation in the conflict," says Matt Bryden of the International Crisis Group. "Whether you agree that genocide has happened or not up to now, the risk of it evolving in that direction is increasing dramatically...
April D. Youpee-Roll ’08, the secretary of Native Americans at Harvard College (NAHC) who is a tribal member of Fort Peck, said she is very excited about this project...
...State Department's June 2005 trafficking report says the extent of the problem in Iraq is "difficult to appropriately gauge" but cites an unknown number of Iraqi women and girls being sent to Yemen, Syria, Jordan and Persian Gulf countries for sexual exploitation. Statistics are further made murky by tribal tradition. Families are usually so shamed by the disappearance of a daughter that they do not report kidnappings. And the resulting stigma of compromised chastity is such that even if the girl should resurface, she may never be taken back by her relations...