(a.) A person of consequence; as, the bigwigs of society.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet the 12th edition of the winter spinoff of Art Basel, the prestigious Swiss art fair, is drawing the usual assortment of private jet passengers, museum bigwigs, advisers, consultants and social butterflies.
(2) Owing to the whole “ underage sex slave allegations ” thing currently besetting the Duke of York, an utterly bewildering number of bigwigs are coming out of the woodwork to speak up for Andy’s indispensability.
(3) "If you are a sibling of someone who is very important in China, automatically people will see you as a potential agent of influence and will treat you well in the hope of gaining guanxi [connections] with the bigwig relative," said Roderick MacFarquhar, an expert on Chinese elite politics at Harvard University.
(4) Under the gaze of protesters, Republican bigwigs such as Condoleezza Rice arrived to pay homage to – and write cheques for – a governor who has taken stances against gay marriage and the issue of raising taxes on the rich, while at the same time embarking on a union-bashing crusade against teachers in his home state.
(5) He has capitalised on his international upbringing and education to become chairman of Socialist International and build bonds with such global bigwigs as economics Nobel prizewinner Joseph Stiglitz and former US president Bill Clinton.
(6) But don't think it's just Republican bigwigs and oil execs rushing to lend the pipeline a hand.
(7) But the arrests of seven Fifa bigwigs in Zurich on Wednesday, and the coordination of a raid on Fifa’s $100m headquarters down the road with a raid on the Miami HQ of international football’s north and central American federation caught everyone off their guard.
(8) But,” he says without a trace of hyperbole, “I believe the journey up there will be the thing.” Inside the hangar we hear speeches from Virgin Galactic bigwigs, trumpeting what a fabulous achievement the new aircraft is.
(9) "On the doorstep," lamented one Labour bigwig, "people saw it as Boris v Ken."
(10) King, and four other Bank bigwigs, have been called to answer questions about the latest financial stability report – we expect plenty of questions on the eurozone crisis.
(11) New Labour bigwigs insisted that those voters “had nowhere else to go”.
(12) The other half, the party bigwigs roll up their sleeves and bruise in, weaklings following Ukip thugs.
(13) Against all the conventional wisdom of the then prevailing mindset of the studios’ marketing bigwigs, Universal Pictures – with a new monster on hand to match such signature Universal properties as Frankenstein and Dracula – decided on an unprecedentedly wide immediate opening in an era when the move was still largely a ploy to defang bad early word-of-mouth by vacuuming up all the available ticket-buyer money before the bad news got out (actually, this still holds good now).
(14) The bigwigs pressured the police to prosecute me," he says.
(15) One scene called for Davies, who has died of cancer aged 72, and his fellow child actors to look on enviously as the bigwigs of the workhouse devoured a great pile of pastries, hams and chicken.
(16) I am a casual tutor, you are permanent (an academic, subject coordinator, faculty bigwig).
(17) That combination has clearly endeared her to the SNL bigwigs: she was one of four musical performers on the show’s 40th anniversary special, alongside Paul McCartney, Kanye West and Paul Simon.
(18) Don't all the bigwig shrinks – your Freuds, Jungs and Laings – drone on about the importance of separation, individuation and self-actualisation?
(19) Given the ceremony’s choice of host, the outspoken Chris Rock, it’ll be a nervous night for Academy bigwigs.
(20) Better Together had Gordon Brown's impassioned rhetoric; it parachuted in Westminster bigwigs to make hurried vows for new Scottish powers.
Chieftain
Definition:
(n.) A captain, leader, or commander; a chief; the head of a troop, army, or clan.
Example Sentences:
(1) While the Koch brothers remain coy about their candidate preferences, a number of billionaire donors in the Koch network, including hedge fund chieftains Paul Singer and Robert Mercer, have either made large donations to Super Pacs supporting candidates, or are expected to do so.
(2) The community chieftain, Samuel Willey, said authorities had told him they would soon have to find alternative accommodation but the storm had wiped out all their crops and left only 10 of more than 200 of their dwellings standing.
(3) Read more Premodern political chieftains, who were long ago supplanted by western-educated men and women quoting John Stuart Mill and demanding individual rights, do not and cannot exist any more, however “Islamic” their theology may seem.
(4) Lee’s wife, Sophie Choi, told reporters her husband appeared to have been snatched on Wednesday afternoon after being lured to a warehouse in Hong Kong where his company stored its sensational tomes on communist party chieftains.
(5) My Polish father-in-law did more for Britain than any graffiti-spraying racist | David Taylor Read more The voyage in the Highland Chieftain took four weeks as it zigzagged across the Atlantic dodging German U-boats.
(6) This was the scene in Lawrence of Arabia (1962) in which Lawrence ( Peter O’Toole ) first makes contact with the Arab chieftain Sherif Ali (Sharif), who will become his key ally in the desert fighting, and the latter, in a daringly protracted sequence, develops from a speck on the horizon into a towering, huge horseman, rifle at the ready.
(7) Faithfull and Jagger had attended an open-air performance by the Chieftains before a banquet at the castle, the Georgian estate of the Honourable Desmond Guinness, conservationist and author.
(8) Egyptian actor Amr Waked, who played the rich Arab chieftain in the widely acclaimed 2012 movie Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, also took part in the campaign, as well as Yousry Nasrallah, one of Egypt’s most respected film directors, prominent human rights advocate Ghada Shahbander and novelist and rights campaigner Ahdaf Soueif.
(9) He recognised that this was no ordinary manager but a chieftain priest.
(10) In an interview in the Guardian two and a half years ago, Fosso said his favourite photo was a self-portrait of himself dressed as an African chieftain clutching a bunch of giant sunflowers.
(11) Alex Salmond is the pudding of our chieftain race' Gavin Hastings: 'I am totally against independence.
(12) But, for now, the spotlight is on McAllister, who marched, Braveheart-style, out of the campaign rally to the CDU's election anthem, a punchy bagpipe rock number whose lyrics include the line: "Our chieftain is a Scot and we are a strong clan."
(13) Matt Molloy's, Westport, Mayo Matt Molloy is the flautist in The Chieftains, one of Ireland's most successful groups, so, unsurprisingly, his pub is known for its trad music nights as well as its pints.
(14) He disapproved of the habit of fetishising single trees - chieftain pines or king oaks.
(15) But can Craig Ferguson turn himself into one of the reigning chieftains of US television ?
(16) He arrived in Belfast in 1940 on a freighter, the Highland Chieftain, carrying a cargo of meat from Buenos Aires and other provisions for a nation at war.
(17) Beijing’s propaganda department relentlessly promotes the president as an almighty chieftain battling to put the Middle Kingdom back at the centre of the world.
(18) Later she recruited to this retro focus group a fictional Saxon chieftain who had to have modern equipment explained over her housework.
(19) He had departed for the continent on Wednesday the tattered chieftain of a fractured tribe, battered first by the massive revolt over Europe and then by another backbench uprising over gay marriage, during which he had to appeal to Labour to save the legislation by throwing him a lifebelt.
(20) Milton Apollo Obote was born in the village of Akokoro in the Apac district of northern Uganda, the third of nine children of Stanley Opeto, a farmer and minor chieftain of the Lango tribe.