adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a tribal custom
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He spoke four African languages and knew most of the tribal customs.
tribal chiefs
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Native American tribal chiefs
tribal loyalty (= loyalty to your group, team etc, which is felt by a large number of people - often used disapprovingly )
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Football fans tend to have a strange kind of tribal loyalty.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
area
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There was religious dissension in the holy city of Qom and disaffection in many of the tribal areas .
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If any move is made by the army in the tribal areas , the result could be an alarm call to Kabul.
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The tribal areas retain their status - which means that to this day there is no law and no democracy.
art
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The first tribal art sale will be held in May.
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Cézanne and tribal art are not yet, it is true, interpreted in a Cubist way.
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As opposed to Western art , tribal art is more conceptual, much less conditioned by visual appearances.
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William Fagg, ethnologist and historian of tribal art , died London, 10 July aged seventy-eight.
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This was the real link between Cubism and tribal art .
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For, like tribal art , the Cubism of Picasso and Braque was to be essentially conceptual.
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What I say is roughly this: primitive art as we call it, tribal art, is usually very good.
chief
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He curbed the tribal chiefs and imposed a secular legal code.
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But much of it also went into the unbridled and anachronistic opulence of the royal family and the main tribal chiefs .
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It was largely due to him that I managed to negotiate successfully with government officials and tribal chiefs during the months that followed.
council
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He may be given a seat on the tribal council , a position of power and prestige.
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Regina herself went to the tribal council meeting Friday and demanded that the council do something about the matter.
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The Kickapoo tribal council will consider whether to take that step in early April, Diamond said.
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But repeated over and over in tribal councils , it soon took on the power of dogma.
customs
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Manteo shed light on its people's habits, tribal customs and battle strategies.
government
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That is true only in the vaguest terms and only when the whole context of how tribal government evolved is properly understood.
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He has been Navajo president for one year, and his efforts to decentralize tribal government so far have fallen flat.
group
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There were no roads of any sort, and rapid pursuit of tribal groups was out of the question.
leader
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Bersin was applauded by tribal leaders and criticized by his peers for the standstill agreement.
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The tribal leaders are the same as those who helped in the census.
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For years, tribal leaders suspected the funds were being mismanaged by Uncle Sam.
member
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Carl says some fake letters even bear the names of Apache tribal members .
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But we need to distinguish between two types of tribal members .
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Makil apologized to tribal members six months after the incident but never faced charges.
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A circle of tribal members almost immediately formed around him when we walked in.
official
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Several top-level tribal officials said it was the first time that a tribal president had been ordered to appear before council members.
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But tribal officials say Hawley Lake remains a jewel of the mountains.
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Meanwhile, elected tribal officials were just shaking their heads.
people
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They were a primitive and tribal people , and do not seem to have been such fierce opponents as the Saxons.
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While some tribal people moved into Freetown, they, too, had limited social contact with the Creoles.
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In response the tribal people formed a solidarity association with an armed wing, Shanti Bahini.
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The worldwide picture for tribal people remains grim.
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The story of the Hebrews is of a nomadic tribal people who settled the Holy Land - a depopulated fertile agricultural area.
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Bananas and maize have been modified by tribal people for so long that these plants now rely on human intervention to propagate.
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Donor countries must be convinced that the tribal people are being adequately catered for.
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But, as Bimal pointed out, none of this will benefit the tribal people .
peoples
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Sophie Grig works for Survival, a worldwide organisation supporting tribal peoples .
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Rio hosted simultaneously a Global Forum of some 2,000 non-governmental organizations, together with representatives from some of the world's tribal peoples .
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The rainforests and the tribal peoples who live there have never needed your help so urgently.
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The meeting passed particular resolutions condemning the uncontrolled logging in Sarawak and the continuing harassment of tribal peoples in the state.
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And the stakes are high - tribal peoples are intimidated, beaten and sometimes killed for opposing modern-day land grabs.
society
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Many Aborigines become disorientated as tribal societies crumble and black independence erodes further - they have become a marginalized minority.
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The Hmong were a tough, unsophisticated tribal society whose own backyard grievances made them perfect recruits for this brutal clandestine war.
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At this stage they hardly mention tribal society .
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In village and tribal societies of the past, identity was established by birth.
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In tribal societies lineages commonly subordinate their material to their symbolic interests.
warfare
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The tribal warfare between groups of chimps is both a cause and a consequence of the male tendency to build alliances.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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tribal councils
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tribal warfare
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But much of it also went into the unbridled and anachronistic opulence of the royal family and the main tribal chiefs.
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But repeated over and over in tribal councils, it soon took on the power of dogma.
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It was the largest movement of peoples since the tribal wanderings of the first millennium.
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Many Aborigines become disorientated as tribal societies crumble and black independence erodes further - they have become a marginalized minority.
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The provinces are based upon the ancient tribal homelands whose people were ruled by their own chieftains.
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This conclusion is based on studies of human society, both modern and tribal , and on comparisons with apes and birds.
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William Fagg, ethnologist and historian of tribal art, died London, 10 July aged seventy-eight.