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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.

Headman


Definition:

  • (n.) A head or leading man, especially of a village community.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Headman's music is a combination of deep house beats with live vocals.
  • (2) Headman talks about how "major labels make things difficult for independent labels".
  • (3) Headman played Synergy Live for the first time last year, and he regularly appears at picnics in and around Lunga – outdoor events for the community which attract up to 10,000 people.
  • (4) Our first encounter was with the headman of the valley, who invited us into his house for a snack of dried yak and Tibetan tea.
  • (5) Headman who heard "it gets a bit hectic" has started to look for a pair of wellies.
  • (6) "I am not just there to deliver my set but to learn, I want to go home with something," says Headman.
  • (7) DJ Fosta Speaking by phone from his studio in his home in Langa township South Africa , DJ Fosta, real name Thulani Headman, said he hadn’t heard of Glastonbury before being asked to play at the festival, but has since done his research.
  • (8) Thibo Tazz Both Headman and Rasenyalo have a long list of other DJs they want to see and meet.
  • (9) On the headman's recommendation, we walked to a large frozen lake.
  • (10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest sjoko-jojko Thibo Tazz , whose real name is Thabo Rasenyalo, lives a 10-minute drive from Headman, describes his sound as a mixture of, deep house, soulful vocals and minimal tech.
  • (11) Whilst Johannesburg is considered a music hub, Headman is passionate about maintaining a Cape Town scene.

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