Bravery indicated the willingness to defend one's tribe for the purpose of assahiya (tribal solidarity and balance).

But it does not follow that all those who did attend went with the intention of demonstrating tribal solidarity.

Many of the HIG local commanders joined the Taliban "both out of ideological sympathy and for reason of tribal solidarity."

In its focus on heated group discussion and ritual, the film aspires at times to be a primal Peter Brook-like theatrical contemplation of survival, superstition and tribal solidarity.

And though the state may be "a defining feature of advancing civilizations," in Iraq it "stands in contrast to tribal solidarity as an organizing principle."

His conversion to socialism at the age of 14, he thought, had liberated him from merely tribal solidarity.

It is rather the result of a crumbling or weakening of tribal solidarity and communal life.

He had never understood this aspect of their behavior: this perverse tribal solidarity of theirs.

By microphone, they voiced an appeal to the imamate Guard for tribal solidarity and to surrender Imam al-Badr, who would be sent peacefully into exile.

Punishment for murder is usually harsher than punishment meted out to acts of disturbing the assahiya (tribal solidarity).