11.   In the past, elderly Navajo women, the clan leaders in this matriarchal society, have shot rifles over the heads of government surveyors and assessors.

12.   Many warlords and clan leaders today consider international organizations part of the enemy, or see them as little more than suppliers of easily stolen trucks or food.

13.   Parts of the Kurdish region, which lies in eastern and southeastern Turkey, are still dominated by clan leaders who rule according to traditions that are centuries old.

14.   She dutifully produces an heir for this clan leader, then is summarily dismissed and sent back to her parents.

15.   Some diplomats say they are steadily weakening Saddam by showing senior officials and clan leaders that Iraq faces only hardship as long as he is in power.

16.   The clan leaders, Dan Reeves and Mike Shanahan, once were like kin, although there is no documentation that they ever went raccoon hunting together.

17.   The general had been meeting with Chechen elders and clan leaders to urge surrender of arms.

18.   The purpose was to catch Somali clan leader Mohamed Farah Aidid.

19.   The raid was an attempt to capture Gen. Mohamed Farrah Aidid, a clan leader who became a pivotal figure in opposition to the U.N. forces.

20.   The police and army do little to keep order as bandits, led by local Albanian clan leaders, control the territory.