(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.
Mandarin
Definition:
(n.) A Chinese public officer or nobleman; a civil or military official in China and Annam.
(n.) A small orange, with easily separable rind. It is thought to be of Chinese origin, and is counted a distinct species (Citrus nobilis)mandarin orange; tangerine --.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is not so much a problem affecting a specific cultivation, but rather a conflict of food security.” Citrus crops have already been hit by the heat this year, with production of some types of mandarins and clementines forecast to be down by as much as 25%.
(2) Chinese New Year is a public holiday and in Glodok, Mandarin and other dialects are spoken openly.
(3) The non-English parts of the UK are represented by Sir Emyr Jones Parry, the former British ambassador to the United Nations and Foreign Office mandarin who chaired the All Wales convention on the Welsh assembly's lawmaking powers, Professor Charlie Jeffery, of Edinburgh University's academy of government, and Professor Yvonne Galligan, of Queen's University Belfast.
(4) The purpose of the present study is to explore both the effects of age and the semantic and syntactic structures of reading materials on the omission rate of "de", the most frequently used character in Mandarin.
(5) Despite the country’s tremendous fiscal consolidation – a record in the history of the EU – senior EU mandarins, from the euro group president Jeroen Dijsselbloem, to the monetary affairs commissioner Olli Rehn, and Wolfgang Schauble, the German finance minister, are all at pains to emphasise that there is still “a great deal to be done” (even if Schauble has increasingly adopted a sweet tone when he speaks about matters Greek).
(6) "The way we acquired information was sometimes illegal," Humphrey said in Mandarin.
(7) Indeed, there is a rising anxiety amongst US public and private sector mandarins surrounding Iran’s apparent digital prowess, as evinced by research the Guardian was briefed on ahead of its September release.
(8) Sir Stephen Lamport, the prince’s former private secretary, and the veteran Whitehall mandarin Sir Alex Allan, were called to give evidence in favour of keeping the letters secret, but they failed to persuade the three tribunal judges, who ordered the letters to be published in September 2012.
(9) She experienced asthmatic attacks while picking leaves and harvesting mandarin oranges.
(10) It was launched on Wednesday with a party at the Mandarin Oriental hotel next door – an event so glittering that Formula One overlord Bernie Ecclestone was in attendance and überchef Heston Blumenthal did the catering.
(11) The requests were originally refused by Whitehall mandarins, who were supported by the information commissioner in a December 2009 ruling.
(12) As Johnson piled the pressure on Romney, the Republican was at the nearby Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park for a fundraiser in central London on Thursday night.
(13) After activists staged stunts outside Mandarin Oriental Hotels in London and New York and people took to the hotel chain’s Facebook page to voice their disapproval, it was only a matter of days before Astra issued a statement announcing an immediate moratorium on deforestation .
(14) Theresa May has been accused of irresponsible “civil service bashing” by the mandarins’ union after using an interview to criticise Whitehall staff.
(15) Winterton challenged the £1.1m cost of an audit of MPs' expenses by Sir Thomas Legg, describing the former mandarin's salary for chairing the review as "megabucks".
(16) David Cameron has accused him of cowardice, his mandarins are being accused of bias and UK ministers are trying to usurp his role as Scotland's most influential ambassador.
(17) The Mandarin could have been a better villain, maybe.")
(18) Grab a table if you're arriving late enough for the restaurant section to have emptied, and make the barman get his big grinder out by ordering a mandarinha – Beija-Flor cachaça, mandarin syrup, lime juice and black pepper.
(19) The Institute for Government has just produced research which points out that neither the Foreign Office nor the Treasury has ever been headed by a female mandarin.
(20) I know of no one here,” an anonymous senior official told the Guardian at the time, “who would dissent from the view that morale is the worst in living memory.” The part of the Treasury where the threatened mandarins worked became known as “the corridor of death”.