All base their appeal on ethnic loyalty rather than any defined political platforms.

Such minor squabbles are quickly polarized by political and ethnic loyalties.

Volunteers came to fight for a variety of reasons including religious or ethnic loyalties and in some cases for money.

But in areas where ethnic and tribal loyalties do not coincide exactly with political lines on a map, nationalism can also spell trouble.

There's little new or surprising about appeals to ethnic, racial or religious loyalties.

Nonetheless, the spread of democratic elections has sometimes heightened ethnic loyalties.

He contends that organisations in Manipur are based on ethnic loyalties and interests.

You can expect ethnic loyalty to take you only so far.

Mobutu was careful also to suppress all institutions that could mobilize ethnic loyalties.

Three years later internal divisions arose that were dominated by major ethnic loyalties.