| It's the clannish attitude which drove my parents and many others far from their heritage. |
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| Borderlanders were migratory, blood thirsty, clannish, and suspicious of strangers. |
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| A decision by the often clannish management of a small firm to let in outsiders can be monumental. |
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| The town, with its nautical history, its foghorns, its steep bluffs and clannish folk, is quintessential Minesota. |
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| The essence of the myth is that the English are standoffish, the Welsh are clannish and only the Scots and the Irish mix with anyone. |
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| The county is notorious for clannish thinking when it comes to the outside world. |
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| They are insular, cliquey and clannish, yet they worm their way into the highest positions of power in their adopted countries. |
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| The English art scene in the 1950s was clannish and especially difficult for a woman to break into. |
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| By 1918, there was suspicion of German Americans and other ethnic groups who were thought to be too clannish and too attached to their Old World cultures. |
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| Such increased devoutness and the Huis' tendency to congregate in and around mosques have made them appear clannish to many Han Chinese, Mai said. |
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| But I am here to tell you that swans are preternaturally strong beyond ordinary imagination, clannish, quick to anger, domineering, and that they posses a decided mean streak. |
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| Its rivals are all merging, and Japan's clannish, inward-looking corporate culture makes that very hazardous. |
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| Roma society is often clannish and atomised, with no recognisable leaders to negotiate with outside authorities. |
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| The solid green betrays his precocious ecological conscience, and the generous and clannish spirit of the singer-actor. |
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| They still retain a largely clannish view of the family and of joint ownership of land holdings. |
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| I still say it takes guts to be a stoker, and it's not surprising that the stokers are even more clannish than the seamen. |
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| The people tend to be traditionally clannish in the rural areas. |
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| I can't stand how limited, how clannish, how narrow-minded they are! |
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| Their clannish fights are the backdrop for our battles in the game. |
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| The clannish nature of the villagers and townspeople was evident. |
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| Especially with a good looking machine like this one, so close to American cruiser looks that clannish riders of that other brand were waving at me. |
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| Besides, Mr Milosevic has his own roots in clannish, vendetta-strewn Montenegro. Still, Serbia's rulers may recognise that Montenegro is already half-way towards independence. |
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| The challenge is to know one's own parental and cultural roots, and yet not fall into the trap of clannish groupism, which has stifled Tibetan parliamentarian politics. |
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| It can, indeed, be of a philosophical, religious or clannish nature. |
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| But politics in Belize is a clannish affair. |
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| In the close knit and clannish Cornwall of the time this was sometimes at his own risk. |
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| Afrikaner families thus became larger in size, more interconnected, and clannish than those of any other colonial establishment in the world. |
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| Georgia is a clannish country in which doing favours for friends is regarded as a moral obligation far more so than obeying footling little rules. |
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| The college faculty can be pretty clannish, so it's difficult to be an outsider there. |
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