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Cliques in sentence

16 examples of Cliques in a sentence

We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough to know what acceptance feels like.
In America, we call them "cliques."
A group of college students are also on the island for a scavenger hunt, there test to get into their cliques frat or sort (Always thought that needed a short nickname).
It doesn't help it that it makes high school seem like a horrible place full of cliques and a mean, prissy, "boss" figure that runs the whole school.
Absa does a good job of showing this cultural mix by focusing on a struggle between two cliques of teenagers and adds just enough humor to keep the film on a light note and interesting.
The cliques have similarities in that they have both forsaken their parents' traditional garb for more Western/European styles and they listen to artists such as James Brown and Jimmy Hendrix.
I was a music nerd back then, but was able to relate with all cliques (one of my best friends was a jock).
However, their plan is road blocked when, Meridith, the creepy, stalker, spoiled queen of the school splits them up into different cliques.
The point is that Turkey needs judicial reforms that eliminate the possibility of organized cliques manipulating their constitutional powers to advance their own narrow goals.
Networks based on strong ties produce the power of loyalty, but may become cliques that re-circulate conventional wisdom.
Over three decades of lax governance, some local authorities have formed political cliques that work together to protect their illicit gains and economic interests.
But while a majority of Iran’s population and a sizable chunk of its political elite recognize that the “death to America” culture created in 1979 is obsolete, small but powerful cliques – both within Iran and among the country’s Arab allies – have entrenched economic and political interests in preventing a rapprochement with the US.
Taking such steps is not easy; it requires courageous political vision, looking beyond the interests of ruling cliques to the future of the Chinese nation.
Tight-knit cliques of bureaucrats and corporate officials made sure that a utility company vital for economic growth would never be hindered by strict regulation or political oversight.
Rulers relied on loyal tribes and narrow cliques to prop up their regimes.
But, as badly as Algeria’s military, led by General Gaid Salah, wants citizens to believe that it is dismantling the cabal of well-connected cliques that form le pouvoir, the protesters remain convinced that this is just a smokescreen.