(n.) The father and ruler of a family; one who governs his family or descendants by paternal right; -- usually applied to heads of families in ancient history, especially in Biblical and Jewish history to those who lived before the time of Moses.
(n.) A dignitary superior to the order of archbishops; as, the patriarch of Constantinople, of Alexandria, or of Antioch.
(n.) A venerable old man; an elder. Also used figuratively.
Example Sentences:
(1) The grand patriarch, battling dissent and delusion, coming in for another shot, a new king on the throne, an impossible future to face down.
(2) A sclerotic patriarchal social system is also to blame.
(3) "But it proves how deep this patriarchal culture is in our minds that even intellectual people were so happy to say, 'Ah, there is a man!'
(4) It has been argued that linguistic usage pertaining to female sexuality generally is the product of a patriarchal value structure and, as such, reflects patriarchal prejudices about female sexuality.
(5) The general atmosphere was that there was no point in summoning the police – the policeman is a local settler from Kiryat Arba who comes to pray with the Hebron settlers at the Tomb of the Patriarchs on Fridays.
(6) As a broad generalisation, the two sides boil down to “that’s patriarchal nonsense in obvious need of rejection” and “leave her alone, it’s none of your goddamn business”.
(7) The dissident Gleb Yakunin excavated evidence from the KGB archives in the 1990s that fingered high-ranking priests as KGB agents, including the former head of the church, Aleksei II, and the current, Patriarch Kirill I.
(8) Indeed, this anti-patriarchal behaviour, which undercuts the nuclear family and makes partnership with men a peripheral concern, is something to celebrate.
(9) In passing this law, these patriarchs have fathered millions of unwanted children, helping to create lives that could very well turn out to be painful and potentially motherless.
(10) A 1981 report by a New Jersey regulator also shows a $7.5m loan from the patriarch, and years later he bought $3.5m in gambling chips to help his son pay off the debts of a failing casino, which was found to have broken the law by accepting them .
(11) The patriarchal laws and the predominantly male enforcers of said archaic acts of parliaments condemn us criminals if we terminate our pregnancies.
(12) Wesley had consulted some sources, common sense, and his own experience, tempering those with the general principle of "doing good to all men," particularly "those who desire to live according to the gospel...." Thus, the Methodist patriarch's own formula for life had as much to do with the spread of Primitive Physick throughout eighteenth-century Britain and America as did all of the remedies and suggestions imprinted upon its pages.
(13) She argued that in fracturing the myth of American invincibility, the attacks also indirectly prompted a resurgence in patriarchal ideals, and a return to old-fashioned perceptions of gender.
(14) Institutionalised advocacy can hardly afford a critique of fundamental norms and rules that underlie modern patriarchal society.
(15) The author builds on previous works in which she has argued that the American core value system centers around science and technology, the institutions through which these are disseminated into society, and the patriarchal system through which these institutions are managed.
(16) For example, the high rate of infection among women in Africa cannot be understood apart from the legacy of colonialism (including land expropriation and the forced introduction of a migrant labor system) and the insidious combination of traditional and European patriarchal values.
(17) Noah has just opened at No 1 at the US box office despite facing a mixed reaction from religious audiences for its fast and loose interpretation of the story of the antediluvian patriarch.
(18) There is a qualitative difference in whose leadership is being visibilized, and black women are forcing ourselves into the forefront.” As we all grapple with racist state violence in the context of a deeply patriarchal society, black women organizers continue to put their bodies on the line to bring forth justice where it has yet to take root.
(19) Disabled activists pushed for a move away from a patriarchal approach to social care to one which was user-led; a shift "from institutions to community", as a piece by John Evans, an early advocate of IL , was titled.
(20) As scholar Thavolia Glymph writes in Out of the House of Bondage , her study of women and slavery in America, the insinuation has long been that planter women "suffered under the weight of the same patriarchal authority to which slaves were subjected".
Patriot
Definition:
(n.) One who loves his country, and zealously supports its authority and interests.
(a.) Becoming to a patriot; patriotic.
Example Sentences:
(1) October 27, 2013 7.27pm GMT Around the league And here’s how things look elsewhere, as we head into the fourth quarter: Cowboys 13-7 Lions Browns 17-20 Chiefs Dolphins 17-20 Patriots Bills 10-28 Saints Giants 15-0 Eagles 49ers 35-10 Jaguars 7.25pm GMT End of 3rd quarter: 49ers 35-10 Jaguars The quarter ends with the Jaguars facing a third-and-one at their own 32.
(2) The “100% Australian-made” text on packaging has been enlarged to appeal to customer patriotism.
(3) I think we need to restore the metadata programme, which was part of the Patriot Act,” he told MSNBC.
(4) The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest organised political movement, added its voice to the chorus of discontent, accusing Scaf of contradicting 'all human, religious and patriotic values' with their callousness and warning that the revolution that overthrew former president Hosni Mubarak earlier this year was able to rise again.
(5) On 23 June, the Cleveland linebacker Ausar Walcott was charged with attempted murder following a brawl in a bar; three days later, the New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez was arrested on suspicion of shooting a man dead.
(6) He will insist "government should stop feeling embarrassed about the need for more patriotism in our economic policy.
(7) As a patriot who worked tirelessly to keep Britain safe from attack.
(8) If the Senate refuses to pass a strengthened version of the USA Freedom Act this summer, reformers should consider what 24 hours ago was unthinkable: abandon the bill and force Section 215 of the Patriot Act to expire once and for all in 2015.
(9) In Barcelona, Catalonian flags hang down from every other terraced window; a few months ago, its Nou Camp stadium was filled to 90,000-capacity, with patriots cheering on artists performing in Catalan.
(10) "For a lot of people in poorer neighbourhoods we are liberators," crowed Yiannis Lagos, one of 18 MPs from the stridently patriot "popular nationalist movement" to enter the 300-seat house in June.
(11) No wonder he was patriotic and believed giving up the empire would be a disaster.
(12) 8.35pm GMT Patriots 0-3 Broncos, 2:15, 1st quarter Brady passes to Shane Vereen for 24 yards, but Edelman can't quite pull in his 1st and 10 pass at the Patriots' 44.
(13) Tebow signed for the Jets in March 2012 , after it became clear that the Broncos – who he had rescued from a 1-4 start to 2011 and taken to an 8-8 finish and a playoff run that was ended by the Patriots – would sign the Indianapolis Colts great Peyton Manning.
(14) Had they bothered to inquire of a veteran from the ranks, they might have heard how exasperating it is to see the dainty long-range patriots of Labour thrashing it out with the staunch gutter jingoists of the Conservative party – and barely a non-commissioned vet among them.
(15) The officially authorised Protestant Three-Self Patriotic Movement , and the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, are organised in such a way as to cloister Chinese Christians from foreign influence.
(16) Critics say that for Obama to say "let's re-debate the Patriot Act" means little unless the still-secret executive-branch interpretation remains undisclosed.
(17) Danes spent a day with an officer at Langley, the CIA's headquarters in Virginia, and that seems to have fortified her patriotism, too.
(18) Massie indicated the coalition is already looking towards the June 2017 expiration of another broad surveillance power, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, to force additional rollbacks, much as the USA Freedom Act authors used the expiration of parts of the Patriot Act as leverage to pass their bill.
(19) Can the leftwing candidates unite to offer a credible alternative, or will party patriotism and egos make it impossible, condemning their party to be excluded from the second round?
(20) Her lawyer Tony Muman told the ECHR last November: "She's a patriot" adding that she had suffered "absolutely no pressure" from her family or relatives to cover herself.