matriarchate

Yet it had been the only planet available for the Matriarchate.

She was interested in the complex and living culture of the Matriarchate.

The women of the Matriarchate had solved it in their own way, which was, by and large, quite successful.

Are they going to interfere in the Matriarchate, try to twist it their way?

"Believe me, it was the first thing to which the Matriarchate gave priority in research!

"There won't be any chance at all for me to do independent research, not in the Matriarchate!

Yet she knew that the essential life of the Matriarchate eluded her.

That was a matriarchate in name only now, a cluster of three small planets about a dying sun.

It wouldn't be honest, it wasn't fair to the Matriarchate.

Do you wish to undermine the whole ethical basis of the Matriarchate, my sister?"

The Matriarchate had only given a form and expression to a hostility which had-she now knew- begun long before they came here.

Had this alien race actually cast their seal on the Matriarchate as their preferred people?

She caught his hand, forgetful of the watching eyes and the customs of the Matriarchate.

For the matriarchate of Estcarp did have powers beyond any human explanation, and they used them ruthlessly when necessary.

"I thought you had studied the Matriarchate.

Not that Cendri cared; this was the opportunity of a lifetime to study the Matriarchate.

"I cannot obey a decision which violates my conscience and the ethical basis of the Matriarchate.

So that the men, holding Dal, had the one instrument which could kill the power of the Matriarchate.

The Matriarchate had been duly notified of the accident; and after certain delays, an answer had come.

Paranoid, he had called the Matriarchate.

She had not been sent here to show the Matriarchate of Isis the error of their ways!

"The primitive government was the Matriarchate.

Damning the whole Matriarchate under her breath, and Dal along with them, she started gathering together the materials they would need.

The Matriarchate!

They had laughed together about the rigid laws of Isis/Cinderella, the Matriarchate.