(n.) A tribe or collection of families, united under a chieftain, regarded as having the same common ancestor, and bearing the same surname; as, the clan of Macdonald.
(n.) A clique; a sect, society, or body of persons; esp., a body of persons united by some common interest or pursuit; -- sometimes used contemptuously.
Example Sentences:
(1) Their chief conduits in Damascus have been leading members of the Assad clan, but not necessarily Bashar al-Assad himself.
(2) A vicious feud playing out within Uzbekistan's ruling family took a new twist on Monday , when prosecutors announced that the clan's most flamboyant member faces charges of involvement in mafia-style corruption.
(3) Ukraine's real political split has always been between different industrial clans, whose placemen dominate parliament.
(4) I wasn't prepared for Madiba (his clan name) coming into my life, but now we make sure we spend time with each other because we were so lonely before.
(5) It was also, because it transcended family and clan interests and involved defining what the realm was, the starting point of the modern state.
(6) There are definitely elements of Clash of Clans in this Wild West-themed game, but it’s got a spark of originality too as you build your posse, explore the wild frontier and protect your town.
(7) Yamadayav's extended family has been involved in a bitter clan feud with Kadyrov, and represented one of the few sources of genuine opposition to the president inside the unstable Caucasus republic.
(8) They are victims of both Sicilian and Nigerian criminality.” For now, Nigerians and Sicilians live in peace with the Abuja clans at the service of Cosa Nostra.
(9) Similarly, at the town of Galiwinku the children of two deprived clans are involved almost exclusively.
(10) The Wu-Tang Clan’s 20th anniversary reunion certainly didn’t always seem like a foregone conclusion.
(11) Pressuring governments to combat corruption will not help if payoffs to mob bosses, clan chiefs, or warlords are needed to maintain social order.
(12) These are the only clans in eastern Arnhem Land without outstations on their homelands.
(13) And the game’s place in the ancestry of Clash of Clans is clear too, which may have been one reason people like me – a fraction of the latter game’s audience, admittedly – fell for Supercell’s game.)
(14) Wu-Tang Clan have already started taking pre-orders for A Better Tomorrow – which should not be confused with their "single-sale collector's item" Once Upon a Time in Shaolin – and have released a new single, Keep Watch .
(15) The donors and the UN agencies who will be represented at Thursday's London conference, who have spent decades working with discredited governments in Mogadishu, do not know which clan leaders to talk to.
(16) Its social structure was organised by family clan, and to this day, most local people have one of three surnames: Lu, Xian or Liang.
(17) Two key opposition cities, Deraa in the south, where the uprising began, and Homs near the Lebanese border, which has become the centre of the nine-month revolt, were heaving with demonstrators chanting anti-regime slogans and waving a national flag last flown before the Assad clan swept to power in Syria more than 40 years ago.
(18) Clash of Clans made the most money on iOS this year.
(19) The Wu-Tang Clan's last album, 8 Diagrams , was released in 2007.
(20) One of the elders, who was a senior leader of the Rhino clan, inducted us into his clan with a short ceremony followed by a long speech over the fire, which allowed us to be officially recognised as the first female Masai warriors.
Gens
Definition:
(a.) A clan or family connection, embracing several families of the same stock, who had a common name and certain common religious rites; a subdivision of the Roman curia or tribe.
(a.) A minor subdivision of a tribe, among American aborigines. It includes those who have a common descent, and bear the same totem.
Example Sentences:
(1) Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, People's Liberation Army's chief of the general staff Gen Fang Fenghui also warned that the US must be objective about tensions between China and Vietnam or risk harming relations between Washington and Beijing.
(2) Reading these latest statistics, it’s crucial that our generation – millennials, Gen Y, whatever we want to call ourselves – abandons this preposterous narrative.
(3) The results showed that the drug "Shan-Dou-Gen" used in different regions in China at present are the roots or rhizomes derived from 9 species: Sophora tonkinensis Gagnep.
(4) A lectin, Helix pomatia agglutinin (HPA), was planted at the surface of rat GEN by the perfusion of the isolated left kidney with neuraminidase (NRD) and HPA.
(5) A new genus of actinomycetes, Excellospora Agre a. Guzeva gen. nov., is suggested on the basis of this study.
(6) Gen Pinochet was also under indictment in three cases stemming from the 3,000 people killed and thousands tortured during his regime, when he was feted by Washington as a bulwark against communism.
(7) Lt Gen Khan told the Washington Post that the documents were "a fabrication".
(8) The Gen-Probe assay utilizing both low (greater than or equal to 4.0) and high (greater than 7.0) ratio threshold values was compared to direct fluorescent antibody staining (DFA) as a predictor of isolation of Legionella on culture.
(9) Rauschia gen. nov. (type species: R. triangularis) is created for species previously pertaining to Nematodirus parasite of Lagomorpha, and in which the synlophe, very complex, differs from the synlophe of the parasite of Ruminants.
(10) The gen 24 protein contained one normal-sized kappa-type light chain (21 KD) and one unusually short delta-heavy chain (30 KD).
(11) The serum was also tested with extracts from unlabeled and surface 125I-labeled keratinocytes (Iodo-Gen method) by immunoblot analysis of one- and two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
(12) Rhinonastes n. gen. is proposed for species possessing a dextroventral genital pore, a bilobed testis, a ventral C-shaped ovary lying between the 2 testicular lobes, and a disc-shaped haptor armed with a ventral anchor-bar complex and 14 hooks.
(13) And they kept coming … the hilarious Octodad: Dadliest Catch , the chilling psychological horror game Daylight , which again, uses procedural generation to create new environments (procedural content is another next-gen theme); and Galak-Z from 17bit Studios, described as an AI and physics-driven open-world action game.
(14) The deduced amino acid sequence was very similar to that of another thermostable neutral protease gene, nprM (M. Kubo and T. Imanaka, J. Gen. Microbiol.
(15) These results suggest that DNP-BP-induced interferon-gamma production modulates Ig isotype expression in vivo in an anti-gen-specific manner.
(16) We have previously proposed (Hartzell, H. C., 1984, J. Gen.
(17) Accepting the importance of such co-factors acting on the viral gens that regulate the HIV expression in the host cell, it was speculated on the possible role of vaccines, such as the hepatitis B vaccine, and some antiviral drugs which could be useful in the indirect prevention of AIDS-disease in both HIV-carriers and those practising AIDS-high-risk-activities.
(18) In the group of persons vaccinated with Gen-H-B-Vax, 62 completed the full cycle of vaccination, and protective titer of anti-HBs amounted to 90.3% of vaccinated.
(19) Chemotaxis toward amino acids by Bdellovibrio bacteriovorous strain UKi2 was studied by the capillary technique of Adler (J. Gen. Microbiol.
(20) Pending Petraeus's confirmation by Congress, the British deputy commander of Nato forces in Afghanistan, Lt Gen Nick Parker, will assume command.