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  • "Don't get sick after June," became the common saying in tribes.

    Why Your Annual Checkup Is Just 13 Minutes Gary Sutton 2010

  • "Don't get sick after June," became the common saying in tribes.

    Why Your Annual Checkup Is Just 13 Minutes Gary Sutton 2010

  • Being Jewish -- even if a Jewnitarian -- is not the same as being black, however much we may identify as tribes.

    Oprah, Kitty and Me Erica Jong 2010

  • Social animals learn a basic social sense of right and wrong from living in tribes.

    Think Progress » Cheney: If You Don’t Support Everything I Do, You Aren’t Serious About Terrorism 2005

  • He was probably one of the causes of the instability of the successive mediæval kingdoms, which were all, indeed, but loosely strung collections of temporarily suzerain tribes.

    High Albania Mary Edith 1909

  • While we were at supper crowds of villagers collected to see us, and the courtyard and the house were filled with and surrounded by all sorts of guests from different Bedawin tribes.

    The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton William Henry Burton Wilkins 1897

  • Thus prepared, the kamas is both edible and nutritious, and forms no inconsiderable item of food with many of the Rocky Mountain tribes.

    Life in the Rocky Mountains 1844

  • In order to meet the needs of the congregation, the VICC is divided into 12 different groups called tribes.

    Homepage By RENEE SKALIJ 2010

  • In order to meet the needs of the congregation, the VICC is divided into 12 different groups called tribes.

    Homepage 2010

  • In order to meet the needs of the congregation, the VICC is divided into 12 different groups called tribes.

    Homepage 2010

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