Sentences with word «clannishness»

When it is combined, as it frequently is, with an equally strong sense of difference and hence of clannishness on the part of the Jews, it may also affect minds to which neither ignorance nor narrowness can be ascribed.

It is divisive when clannishness shuts out the common citizen, and when it shuts out the nobleborn, and when it shuts out the civil servant.

Alas, there is something in the world called clannishness.

Nevertheless, we all participate in varying degrees at various levels — constantly or intermittently, subtly or crudely, consciously or unconsciously, brazenly or hypocritically — in racism, sexism, classism, ideological clannishness, nationalism.

Never in the history of this country has a leader demonstrated such clannishness and insensitivity.

Why not approach the idea of God in the expansive way that democratic capitalism harnesses clannishness?

For all clannishness is the enemy of universal humanity.

It is a dangerous thing because all clannishness is divisive.

Similarly, Jews have sometimes been forced by majority prejudice into defensive reactions that appear to confirm such anti-Semitic stereotypes as Jewish competitiveness and clannishness.

Historically, weak state institutions have led not to the idealized world of anarchists and libertarians, but instead to extended family tribal - like institutions and clannishness that subordinate members desire to express individual choice and freedom in the absence of a strong state, to clan needs for mutual protection and more.

Buhari as a Muslim president - elect must rise above religious persecution and clannishness.

But elected on the platform of change or what a former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, called «Any option But Jonathan» platform, Buhari, two years and eight months in office, has eroded his brand; ineptitude, ignorance, clannishness, nepotism, distraction, aloofness and confusion have tarnished even his reputation for integrity.