The election of the village headman had been postponed.

Tribal leaders have joined the protesters.

Tom has tribal tattoos on his thighs.

Elders give me drive to keep on working in films also.

Tribal feelings national, ethnic, and religious are filling the vacuum.

These communities are trapped in cycles of famine and debt.

Elders came to me and said, Are you running from the police?

Where are South Africa's political leaders, church elders and youth leaders?

Since my mother passed away, I always get judged strictly on a daily basis by the elders of our Somali community.

Kenya is embroiled in bitter tribal disputes, and saddled with a brazenly corrupt government.

Saudi Arabia's population is divided into distinctive regional, tribal, and sectarian groups.

Tribal emotions are embarrassing, and dangerous when given free reign.

Tribal allegiances will play a pivotal role if Qaddafi is defeated in the coming days.

This group appears to rely heavily on tribal structures, kinship, and other local affiliations.

Next, dancers performed a Mangaru' dance a dance that was originally composed to honor the community's leader.

Consider football clubs, the modern world s most insular, even tribal institutions.

The elders of the two sub clans spent four days negotiating a less bloody solution, and the agreed price of 100 camels worth 7,000 was paid as compensation.

This has severely affected the tribal communities in the region whose primary occupation is agriculture.

In Nigeria, the Ibo who fought Africa's first post independence war of secession in the name of tribalism remain an uneasy, defiant minority. Tribal affiliations powerfully influence political, social, and economic life in many other African countries as well.

Tribal affiliations powerfully influence political, social, and economic life in many other African countries as well.

Kapululangu s Elders were born in the desert, and grew up and were trained in the Old Ways before the arrival of Kartiya non Indigenous people in their ancestral countries.

In this respect, I call on both Muslims and Christians to continue living together peacefully and work in harmony for the common good of the country regardless of our ethnolinguistic differences. On January 6 officials of the Gambia Supreme Islamic Council (GSIC) and Banjul Muslims Elders visited the State House to express their appreciation and support for the declaration of The Gambia as an Islamic state.

Elders may be the most important inspiration as they have told me to keep doing my work, that the work is important.

State television on January 15 broadcast the faintly surreal sight of diplomats, village elders, representatives of the local media and students shoveling narcotics and blocks of cigarettes onto a pyre.

In 2010, Iraqi political leaders machinations personal, as well as tribal and sectarian left the country without a government for 249 days.

Today, many of those responsible for the decision to crack down notably Deng Xiaoping and others of the Party Elders have died.

Just as killing continues to be celebrated in ritualized form in Spanish bull rings, illicit tribal feelings are given full vent in the soccer arenas.

The elders of the Japan Sumo Association (JSA), the retired wrestlers who govern the sport, see themselves less as administrators than as guardians of a holy tradition.

The community's concerns about the environment have been prescient, as impoverished, vulnerable rural communities have had to bear the brunt of deteriorating environmental conditions and shortages of different vital natural resources. The community elders are feeling the impact of environmental degradation through development projects draining their livelihood and eroding their identity.

The royal family is empowered to administer the country, but through consultation with different sectors, like tribal leaders or merchant groups.

independence is definitely worth the 63 year wait, says Moezi Ali So it seems the South could have easily gained independence 63 years ago, but the tribal differences would've had an egregious effect on the country.

Indeed, some tribal elders have chosen to not share their knowledge with non tribal members by recording it, the chance that an outsider will access the information increases.

Africans living outside their home countries, especially those in the US or Europe, find that they often can effectively invest in their homelands by drawing on tribal ties.

Remember Angola s civil war, the Khmer Rouge s massacre of millions of Cambodians, Rwanda s tribal wars, the bloody disintegration of Yugoslavia, and the extermination of Christians in Southern Sudan.

Colonialists and African independence leaders erred when they ignored tribal preferences, rather than celebrating them and making them the cornerstone of a healthy democracy.

On the video game's blog, the makers documented the process, as well as produced this behind the scenes video (above) showing how elders, young people, and linguists proudly all took part in the game's development.

Kerala tops the India human development index .. but death and malnutrition stalk the state's tribal block. http t.co k9lTfhK2nm Sajith N ( playandthink) July 8, 2013

By ignoring tribal affinities, Europeans hoped to create an Africa whose allegiance was to nation first and tribe second (or not at all). Africa's independence leaders of the late 1950s and early 1960s essentially opposed tribal power.

At stake is the cohesion of a state that many argue is yet another example of an artificial nation cobbled together by Europeans who did not understand their creation s social, tribal, and religious forces.

By ignoring tribal affinities, Europeans hoped to create an Africa whose allegiance was to nation first and tribe second (or not at all).

Social, tribal, and economic ties between the provinces of Deir al Zour in Syria and Anbar in Iraq are strong and have strengthened further as control by the Syrian and Iraqi governments has loosened.

Besides, which country can claim to be following its pure traditional culture ? You cannot follow the model of a modern nation state cutting across tribal boundaries and conventions, and then argue that tribal traditions should be applied to judge the state's human rights conduct.

You cannot follow the model of a modern nation state cutting across tribal boundaries and conventions, and then argue that tribal traditions should be applied to judge the state's human rights conduct.

Even when football doesn t lead to actual bloodshed, it inspires strong emotions primitive and tribal evoking the days when warriors donned facial paint and jumped up and down in war dances, hollering like apes.

The elders of the two sub clans spent four days negotiating a less bloody solution, and the agreed price of 100 camels worth 7,000 was paid as compensation.