chieftain

How To Use chieftain In A Sentence

• Tuesday, rose from humble beginnings as a peasant herdboy through stages as a teacher, political prisoner and guerrilla chieftain. ANC Daily News Briefing
• This usage proceeded, in part, from the notion of consanguinity between every member of a clan, even of the lowest degree, to his chieftain, and the affability and courtesy with which the head was in the habit of treating those over whom he ruled. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.
• They strongly urge the assorted presidents, prime ministers and corporate chieftains to come without their staffs and guards.
• Each spring, corporate America's preeminent chieftains offer sage counsel to eager university graduates across the nation.
• However he was very popular with the lords and chieftains of his day as he stayed in their castles and manors and wrote of their prowess and lineage.
• They walked slowly and deliberately for about two miles until they reached a place known as Dn Leathghlaise, or the “Chieftain’s Fort.” The Pawprints of History
• The national organizer of a Ghanaian youth association is calling on elders and traditional rulers to help resolve a brewing conflict over a chieftaincy dispute. Ghanaian Youth Leader Urges Elders to End Chieftaincy Disputes
• As part of the pacification of the Highlands after the collapse of the Jacobite rising of 1689-90 a royal order required all clan chieftains to take an oath of allegiance to William and Mary.
• They may be clamouring for democracy and progress, but Lebanon's chieftains are feudal at heart.
• He is the only heir of the pandour chieftain, Franz von Trenck. Frederick the Great and His Family