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Some point to Islam as a factor, others to the clannish and paternalistic nature of Arab societies.

有人将矛头对准伊斯兰教，有人说是阿拉伯社会固有的排外思想和家长式作风导致民主出现了各种问题。

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

在中国乡村的宗派争执中，他的获胜有着村民们对他逝去亲人支持的明显印记。

The last one was information of musical-dances about nations, which still lived in a primeval clannish society nowadays.

另一方面是近代还处于原始氏族社会末期民族中的乐舞资料。

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

而且我知道吉尔伯特也不喜欢她，虽然他顾及家族情面没有承认。

But China's society is very clannish, which I suppose requires legal bonds.

但是中国社会非常特殊，我猜需要法定债券【神马意思】。

But she was a clannish creature, and rushed at once to the defence of heR brotheR

但是，她是一个“胳臂肘往里拐”的人，立刻忙着来维护她的兄弟。

An Investigation into Conflicts of Clannish Groups in Present Village Election in Zhejiang

当代浙江村民选举中的宗族派系斗争调查

The Revival of Village Clannish Culture and Its Resolvent

村落宗族文化的复兴及其解决对策