Their tired justification is that more freedom would intensify tribal rivalries.

Fighting first flared last week as a blend of tribal, political and social rivalries crystallized into warfare.

A memorandum spoke of continued tribal rivalries as adding to the resistance to the Soviets.

Of significant importance was the emergence of tribal rivalry.

The large number of different tribes meant that there were not enough interpreters, and potentially dangerous tribal rivalries needed attention.

He also managed through fine diplomacy to balance out the tribal rivalries.

In Liberia, too, tribal rivalries envenom the bitter civil war.

Possible solutions seem as confusing as the maze of tribal rivalries.

But due to tribal rivalries many families would guard their cemeteries and put restrictions on who got buried in them.

This tribal rivalry has frequently been exploited by contestants in "the Great Game."