1.   War and isolation have proved an ideal breeding ground for corruption and feuding between rival political clans.

2.   The newly elected Governor, Zacaria Candao, was immediately confronted by an outbreak of serious fighting in June arising from a dispute between rival family clans.

3.   For years, Republicans and Democrats on Staten Island have behaved like members of rival clans.

4.   Gunmen from a rival clan had killed her father and two brothers in their home.

5.   Ideological divisions have often been less important within the PRI than conflicts between rival bureaucratic clans.

6.   It took a feud between rival clans in Nablus to find some political will.

7.   Nowadays, however, younger choreographers have returned to music, with each rival clan claiming that its hero or heroine is the most musical of all.

8.   Sir Gregor MacGregor knows all about the bloody battles between rival clans.

9.   The rival clans were already positioning their forces for a fight to see which clan takes over the airport.

10.   With rival clans led by Gen. Mohamed Farrah Aidid and Mohamad Ali Mahdi at loggerheads over any peace plan, Washington believed its usefulness in Somalia had finally expired.