When its rivals violate its collective interest, all clansmen act together to defend the clan's interest. |
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A firefight broke out among the clansmen and others in Tripoli, northern Lebanon. |
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Exiled clansmen and their ladies danced the eightsome reel, the military two-step and slow Scottish waltzes to the music of a bag-piper. |
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He was an urbane intellectual in a country terrorized by a primitive tribal thug and his loyal clansmen. |
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At Appin, he attempted to replace his old clan rivals, the Stewarts, with his own clansmen. |
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We met a group of Australians searching for the home of their MacDonald clansmen. |
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His clansmen had looked at him with wondering eyes as they neared the hillside. |
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Many Highland chiefs and clansmen, who did battle for the Stuart cause, paid for their loyalty with life and property. |
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Colmcille refused to surrender his book, and his clansmen rallied to his defense against the king. |
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Sir Bindon Blood was a striking figure in these savage mountains and among these wild rifle-armed clansmen. |
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Meanwhile Claverhouse had raised a Jacobite force of 2,000 Highland clansmen. |
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Acorns were traditionally used by clansmen to decorate windows and deter lightning from hitting their houses. |
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A melancholy cavalcade of clansmen subsequently set forth in wagons for London. |
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In later days, the real power stemmed from his clansmen around his hometown. |
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In reality, Camerons, MacDonalds and Chattans fought Campbells, Munros and the many other clansmen that joined the ranks of the Argyll Militia. |
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Hyo's only family were his fellow clansmen, who was not a very reliable source of protection. |
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His motivation for organising an emigration to Canada was to avoid economic ruin and religious persecution, for himself and his fellow clansmen. |
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She, herself, had never had a proper bed, just one made of animal furs from kills the clansmen had made. |
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When the Scots gathered for battle, the loyal clansmen would bring a stone, which they dropped in a pile. |
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The next time, however, he would not let her talk this way in front of his clansmen. |
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The news of the loss of his clansmen hadn't reached him before the War Leader told him. |
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Probably more significant is the fact that Brown was one of the many neutral names adopted by clansmen who wanted to be rid of their politically incorrect Gaelic patronymics. |
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I hated my clansmen, hated them for being ignorant simpletons. |
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They may be al-Qaida members, but they are also fathers and sons, brothers and cousins, tribesmen and clansmen with friends and relatives. |
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The army claims that his Wazir clansmen killed around 250 Uzbek militants in their midst last year. |
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His father, flanked by clansmen with Kalashnikovs, burst into the police station in Van where his son was held. |
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Their assignment is to protect aion, manage other things and prevent their clansmen from the harm. |
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His fellow clansmen try to persuade him to join them for a swift saki or two but he always declines, earning him the nickname of The Twilight Samurai. |
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Facing jail, a chieftain in western Niger offered to free the 7,000 slaves held by him and his clansmen in a public ceremony, due to take place on Saturday March 5th. |
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He knew he should go down among the dead and say the words over his fallen clansmen, but he couldn't bring himself to descend even a foot into that vale. |
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When thousands left the world and became Monks, they very often did so as clansmen, dutifully following the example of their chief. |
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Once landing on the Clyde approximately 20,000 Scottish Jacobites, mostly Highland clansmen, would rise and join him. |
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For nearly two decades before the 1745 rising, many clansmen had been leaving the Highlands to live in the Americas. |
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But the president's immediate relations and clansmen hold influential posts throughout the army, intelligence and party. The same is true, though in subtler ways, in other Arab republics. |
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At least 50 candidates standing in local elections on May 10th are clansmen, 23 of them directly related to the old man himself, who is running for vice-governor from his jail cell common Philippine practice. |
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Terrible, too, in its description of the feuding of the clansmen. |
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The immemorial enmities between the sedentarized clansmen and the mountain or desert tribes of adjacent territories have been traced by scholars to economic origins. |
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This concept was where all clansmen recognised the personal authority of the chiefs and leading gentry as trustees for their clan. |
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The Glengarry clansmen managed to get away from their homelands before the British Government's embargo during the war with Napoleon. |
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Gold coins stamped with the glowing mark of Laethys tumbled from his robe, and the clansmen realized they had nearly turned over their holy caverns to agents of the Golden Maw. |
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What does appear so far, however, is that PAREM has succeeded in injecting funds into communities, where ex-combatants are undertaking activities with their clansmen and neighbours. |
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They had no clansmen or tribesmen to go to. |
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Even though there is no ethnic domination in the public sector, competition for access to the public sector is highly ethnic as voters support clansmen and women rather than parties. |
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The fine resented their clansmen paying rent to other landlords. |
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Many died in Carlisle Castle, where they were imprisoned in brutal conditions along with Scots prisoners whom Morier allegedly painted to depict the kilted clansmen in battle. |
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Many clansmen although not related to the chief took the chief's surname as their own to either show solidarity, or to obtain basic protection or for much needed sustenance. |
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Under the Clan Act of 1715, the clan system was weakened as the British government rewarded clansmen who followed the government rather than their disloyal chief. |
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