1 They were a clannish lot, not given to welcoming strangers.

2 The atmosphere is subdued and clannish, like the aura inside an exclusive club.

3 And let's look at clannish practices.

4 But the main clefts are chronological and clannish rather than ideological.

5 Nation, religion, clannish , estate is the social natural resources with important country.

6 The Irish families in the US were very clannish and their lives centred on the church.

7 He is clannish and endearing, and mostly tame as long as you don't wave the red flag.

8 Farming the development of agrarian economy and clannish society, let familial relative status become tremendous productivity, push Chinese industrialization quickly to the climax.

9 Even by clannish Japan's standards, the island seems a friendly, close - knit place.

10 In the clannish politics of Chinese villages, his victory was a clear stamp of popular support for his late relative.

11 The town had settled to being itself again, sleepy, clannish, introverted.

12 The sanctity of traditional ownership and lineage are hoisted like clannish flags.

13 Of course you know to begin with that the Kane family is very clannish.

14 The incentive mechanism is adjusted by the family according to how much they trust in the manager[], and different mechanism results in different governance patterns of clannish enterprises.

15 The French also like jokes about the Corsicans, Corsica is a French island where people have a reputation for being lazy, vengeful and clannish.

16 There were particularities as well as commonalities of human society for Manchu of the Ming Dynasty in the transition from the clannish society to the civilized society.

17 Perhaps that's why I've never liked her . . . and I know Gilbert doesn't either, though he's too clannish to admit it.

18 Such strong relationships are echoed in Japan’s tightly knit firms, some of which are clannish to their roots.

19 Rafah long languished as a provincial backwater in the claustrophobic Gaza Strip, a clannish and rural hinterland to Gaza City’s bustling and cosmopolitan downtown.

20 Despite they are foreigners in our university, we can see that they always work and study hard, and the most important thing is that they are really clannish .