(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.
Tycoon
Definition:
(n.) The title by which the shogun, or former commander in chief of the Japanese army, was known to foreigners.
Example Sentences:
(1) Leading figures including the musician Sting, business tycoon Sir Richard Branson and comedian Russell Brand have called for the possession of drugs to be decriminalised.
(2) The Colorado-based tycoon is notoriously secretive and at one point looked as if he was going to mount a rival bid for the US satellite TV company.
(3) The Economist, which has just launched a single-copy subscription service and reached an undisclosed settlement with oil tycoon Gennady Timchenko in July, saw UK sales rise 2.6% year on year to 187,341.
(4) However, no deal has been forthcoming and the billionaire tycoon was photographed on his new yacht throughout the summer.
(5) Ruffer, who like Moulton called the recession early and has close links to hedge fund tycoon Crispin Odey, has taken a 29.5% stake in Better Capital.
(6) In the meantime, local MPs are to visit the company’s warehouse on 21 March, an invitation the tycoon also extended to members of parliament’s business, innovation and skills select committee.
(7) The tycoon said the sale to Chappell had been an “honest mistake”.
(8) The Daily Beast asked the Trump campaign about a story from Harry Hurt III’s 1993 book The Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump, in which Trump allegedly tore out clumps of then-wife Ivana Trump’s hair before allegedly sexually assaulting her in a way that, according to Hurt, she characterized to friends as “rape,” later clarifying that she felt “violated” but not in “a literal or criminal sense.” It’s depressing to consider how little difference this might make in the GOP race.
(9) Russian prosecutors have launched a criminal case against the media tycoon Alexander Lebedev on charges of hooliganism for punching a fellow billionaire on a television programme.
(10) The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said only that he was under investigation, but the website of the People's Daily, the official party newspaper, drew links to Ji's oversight of mammoth infrastructure projects in the city and his connections to a detained construction tycoon.
(11) In 2003 Dos Santos married Sindika Dokolo, Congolese art collector the son of the tycoon Sanu Dokolo, founder of Bank of Kinshasa.
(12) Tech tycoon Kim Dotcom has told the Guardian that "governments want to engage in mass surveillance and have total citizen control", before a crowd fundraising event for the Mana Internet party , the political party he founded to contest New Zealand 's September 20 elections.
(13) Holly Branson, daughter of the tycoon Richard – whose company Virgin sponsors the race – was at the finish line waiting to give Lomas the Virgin trophy for endurance.
(14) Attendees included 73 financiers, 47 retail and property tycoons, 10 people in oil, gas and mining and 19 working in public affairs and PR.
(15) Manager Mike Scioscia may have one-time slugger Josh Hamilton back in time for the postseason, should he heal from rib inflammation ( if they even need him ); same goes for starting pitcher Matt Shoemaker, who has carried the team down the stretch and is recovering from a mild left rib-cage strain , not to mention his rookie hazing role as a Saudi oil tycoon.
(16) Other wealthy figures from the world of finance listed under Fox in the MPs' register of interests are: Stanley Fink, formerly of Man Group; Alan Howard, of Brevan Howard; Jon Moulton of Better Capital; and the property tycoons David & Simon Reuben.
(17) Rupert Murdoch invited Boris Johnson to a private dinner at his Mayfair home on a recent visit by the tycoon to London, the latest sign of growing intimacy between the media mogul recovering from the phone-hacking storm and the mayor of London – seen as a long-term rival to David Cameron.
(18) Better Capital, led by private equity tycoon Jon Moulton, is among the firms thought to be casting their eye over the business.
(19) Pro-Kiev activists later pelted the former banking tycoon with eggs, calling him "Putin's whore".
(20) Hans Rausing , ex-packaging tycoon: £49,000 Co-inherited Sweden's Tetra Pak group, the world's largest packaging production company, then sold out to brother Gad in 1995 for an estimated $7bn.