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

2.   A war hero challenged the choice of the establishment, a member of an old political clan, for the Republican presidential nomination.

3.   All were members of political clans, which more or less considered the presidency a natural component of the family business.

4.   Stewart L. Udall led the Democratic political clan, serving first in Congress and then as Interior secretary for the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.

5.   Such cases tend to be used here as political weapons, and surface when one political clan or another is losing power.

6.   But this scion of a political clan that includes a former prime minister finds it difficult to stay out of the political fray.

7.   Construction firms have found it hard to implement projects in areas controlled by political clans, rebel factions, and those influenced by other contractors.

8.   Former Muslim rebel leaders are running against members of powerful political clans, but it was not immediately clear who was responsible for the attack, police said.

9.   Gechen Turbay is a member of a prominent political clan that has had several of its members killed and kidnapped by the FARC.

10.   His wife, a member of an elite communist political clan, curses army and police generals who refused to use force against demonstrators.