(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.
Kindred
Definition:
(n.) Relationship by birth or marriage; consanguinity; affinity; kin.
(n.) Relatives by blood or marriage, more properly the former; relations; persons related to each other.
(a.) Related; congenial; of the like nature or properties; as, kindred souls; kindred skies; kindred propositions.
Example Sentences:
(1) No woman is at greater risk for ovarian carcinoma than one who is a member of a hereditary ovarian carcinoma syndrome kindred and whose mother, sister, or daughter has been affected with this disease and with an integrally related hereditary syndrome cancer.
(2) An unusual spectrum of craniofacial and foot abnormalities has been detected within a large midwestern Amish kindred.
(3) 45Calcium has been used to compare the kinetics for the transport and bioaccumulation of this regulatory cation in keratinocyte cultures of a kindred with HPS (i.e., one HPS homozygote, one HPS obligate heterozygote, one normal family member, and healthy adult controls).
(4) In this study, six patients, the proband, his four siblings and a niece, representing a kindred of fifty-two subjects, were examined for aymptomatic cutaneous nodules mainly on the back and chest.
(5) Recently, a gene for ITD (DYT1) in a non-Jewish kindred was located on chromosome 9q32-34, with tight linkage to the gene encoding gelsolin (GSN).
(6) A four-generation 25-member kindred with Factor XI:C deficiency is reported.
(7) In a nationwide investigation in South Africa, 25 affected individuals in 15 Afrikaner kindreds have been studied.
(8) found linkage between manic depression and HRAS1 in a single large Amish kindred.
(9) Longevity analysis demonstrated elongation of life expectancy for kindred members, and there was an apparent rarity of premature cardiac events.
(10) The logarithm of the odds ratio between GTHR and c-erbA beta was 3.67, and therefore GTHR mapped to the c-erbA beta locus in this kindred.
(11) To investigate the possibility that the syndrome is caused by mutation in a tumor suppressor gene, we searched for loss of heterozygosity in 16 sporadic basal cell carcinomas, 2 hereditary basal cell carcinomas, and 1 hereditary ovarian fibroma and performed genetic linkage studies in five Gorlin syndrome kindreds.
(12) In the present study, we have analyzed the IF staining patterns of skin and fibroblast cultures from Marfan syndrome patients and normal first-degree relatives in nine Marfan kindreds.
(13) Consanguinity of the kindreds could not be established.
(14) Here we demonstrate that in this kindred, which shows linkage to chromosome 21 markers, there is a point mutation in the APP gene.
(15) It also abolishes the Aval site (CTCGGG) in exon VI, which can be directly detected with the enzymatic DNA amplification technique (PCR) and offers the possibility of direct analysis in carrier and prenatal diagnosis in kindreds with this mutation.
(16) Kindred S showed the effect in man of heterozygous and homozygous expression of a dominant negative form of c-erbA beta.
(17) Lifetime risk of dementia in early-onset FAD kindreds is consistent with an autosomal dominant inheritance model.
(18) A kindred with an X-autosome translocation and differential inactivation of the X chromosome is described.
(19) Depending on the size of the kindred, the pedigree automatically obtains a rectangular or circular appearance.
(20) The W family represents the largest such North American kindred yet reported.