He found that his new position within the tribal hierarchy created a stronger sense of duty to his people and a need to ensure their peaceful co-existence with white settlers.

We should free ourselves from these tribal hierarchies and degrees.

Expedition-Style tactics, especially being guided up Everest while sucking oxygen, rank at the bottom of their tribal hierarchy.

Therefore telling them grows into the local art, the best raconteur - like the ones in tribes - is an extremely important member of "tribal" hierarchy.

Witch women, all three of them, engaged in booting their husbands to the top of the tribal hierarchy.

There is no tribal or other governing hierarchy, and conflict may be resolved by one of the parties voluntarily moving to another camp.

Lunars follow at best a loose tribal hierarchy and ritually tattoo each other to protect themselves from the warping effects of the Wyld.

And because it is an awkward, intractable creature, the serving of it establishes and reinforces the tribal hierarchy.

Work gangs in these all-male compounds developed into tribal hierarchies.

There is a casual character about the situation here since the "exercise," as General Holomisa describes his ouster of the tribal hierarchy that ruled for 11 years.