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Example sentences for: clans

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The Nor’westers commandeered the French system of forts, depots, and canoe brigades; they inter-married with native peoples and produced new clans of so-called Métis.
Wellesley then turned on the Marathas, whose clans controlled the puppet Mughal emperor in Delhi and much of central India.
In the meantime, the mainland area was being settled by incomers, the “Five Great Clans”: Tang, Hau, Pang, Liu, and Man.
Sociology and anthropology are the study of the products of the human tendency to form clans, partnerships, and coalitions.
By the end of the eighth century the clans had created a hierarchy of shiki, or rights, from the highest to the lowest ranks of society.