(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.
Foreman
Definition:
(n.) The first or chief man
(n.) The chief man of a jury, who acts as their speaker.
(n.) The chief of a set of hands employed in a shop, or on works of any kind, who superintends the rest; an overseer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Increasing pressures on social care budgets meant DLA was often the only financial support they got, said Esther Foreman, the charity's campaigns and policy manager, and short-term cost savings could have long-term implications for claimants, their families and carers.
(2) After 48 h their ovaries were removed and the granulosa cells isolated (Foreman et al.
(3) 1 Muhammad Ali's 'rope-a-dope' Ali's "rope-a-dope" plan for 1974's Rumble in the Jungle – his fight against unbeaten George Foreman for the world heavyweight title – was one of the riskiest strategies ever seen in boxing.
(4) For seven sweltering rounds, against all prognoses, Ali allowed Foreman, the brutish, one-blow Goliath, actually to punch himself out on his arms, as Ali himself lay on the ropes, head back as if out of a bedroom window to check if the cat was on the roof.
(5) My religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest George Foreman on Muhammad Ali: he was truly beautiful .
(6) At 11.35am, within a packed and hushed court 1, Redknapp and his fellow defendant, the former Portsmouth football club owner Milan Mandaric, hugged in the glass-walled dock after the female jury foreman responded with quiet answers of "not guilty" to each count.
(7) Ali knocked out Foreman in the eighth round, taking the heavyweight champion title from him.
(8) Apart from a small bruise beneath the right eye and some flecks of blood surrounding the iris (which he attributed to Foreman’s thumb), he was unmarked.
(9) Muhammad Ali, 'the Greatest', dies aged 74 Read more George Foreman , 67, who was Ali’s opponent in the legendary Rumble in the Jungle fight in 1974, took to Twitter to share his grief.
(10) Instead of providing all the robots with a plan of the desired building, and appointing a mechanical foreman to direct them, each is given the same set of rules that tells it when to move itself or a nearby brick.
(11) He bent over the set with a hostile concentration when Foreman’s manager, Dick Sadler, came up on the screen.
(12) Elizabeth Weise (@eweise) #ellenpao The jury foreman counted wrong on the fourth claim.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest George Foreman on Muhammad Ali: he was truly beautiful – audio “A part of me slipped away, the greatest piece,’ Foreman wrote.
(14) His recruitment agent in Kathmandu, Capital International Manpower, said Shanbu was “over-reacting” and that they sent him on a foreman’s contract because that is the permit that had been supplied by Qatar.
(15) So, having rolled away the rock, he hit George Foreman on the head with it.
(16) There were a few familiar faces from gangland's past: Freddie "Brown Bread Fred" Foreman and Chris Lambrianou, both of whom were involved with the Krays around the time the robbery took place.
(17) Making plays Two weeks ago, Sean Foreman, the president of Sports Reference LLC, the company behind the popular, addictive and wildly useful website baseball-reference.com provided the Guardian with a breakdown of the stat known as WAR , which is "an attempt by the sabermetric baseball community to summarize a player's total contributions to their team in one statistic".
(18) Two fights with Sonny Liston, where he proclaimed himself 'The Greatest' and proved he was; three epic wars with Joe Frazier; the stunning victory over George Foreman in 1974's 'Rumble in the Jungle'; dethroning Leon Spinks in 1978 to become heavyweight champion for an unprecedented third time.
(19) The high-profile status of the Lawrence killing – its highlighting of racism, incompetence and an apparent vein of corruption in the Metropolitan police, and the way the aftermath of the murder radically changed the face of policing, the law and politics – was reflected within minutes of the jury foreman pronouncing the "guilty" verdicts in court 16.
(20) It was a mantra that served him well with the list of distinguished fighters he trained, including George Foreman, who became the oldest ever heavyweight champion when he knocked out Michael Moorer in 1994; his first world champion, Carmen Basilio, who took the welterweight title in 1955; the brilliant Cuban-born Mexican world welterweight champion José Nápoles; and the multiweight world champion Sugar Ray Leonard.