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
The clan organization consisted of the chief, the tanist, the chieftains, the captain, the daoin'-uaisle - the gentlemen, and the general body of the clan.
The annual clan banquet will be in the Manor Hotel on Saturday night where the clan chieftain will be elected.
Wren, the daughter of a southern chieftain slain in battle by Alobar's predecessor, was even duskier. La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
The provinces are based upon the ancient tribal homelands whose people were ruled by their own chieftains.
Dunkeld; for this fact illustrates one of the great evils under which the Scottish Church was at this time labouring, namely the usurpation of abbeys and benefices by great secular chieftains, an abuse existing side by side, and closely connected with, the scandal of concubinage among the clergy, with its inevitable consequence, the hereditary succession to benefices, and wholesale secularization of the property of the Church. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
It is very alarming that some Bantustan administrations have been given land for personal use under the pretext of so-called chieftainship whereas these leaders are historically and traditionally not chiefs. ANC Daily News Briefing
Then the candle-wife chieftainess Mankopodi Thulare acted until, in 1976, Bakgomana appointed Kenneth Kgagudi Sekhukhune to act. CONTENTS:
The Ministry of Personnel turned it down, but the emperor himself approved it. 113 Ningzhou (department) was initially under direct administration, however, a native chieftain bribed Liu Jin, the influential eunuch, and a native subprefect was resumed that eventually would be abolished in 1522.114 Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
The Tang Dynasty appointed local clan chieftains to govern for them.
The key consideration in war-torn Gaelic society was that marriages should seal important political and military alliances between the chieftains' dynasties.
Such expeditions were set on foot either by some chieftain who rode from aoul to aoul calling upon the brave to follow him; or by a summons sent abroad to the warriors of a certain district inviting them to assemble in the council ring at a given time and place for the purpose of agreeing upon an attack upon some fort, or a foray within the lines of the enemy. Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia
And it's a cultural divide between those who believe that baseball represents something pure and simple -- father and son deciding on the spur of the moment to take in a ballgame, some peanuts and Cracker Jack -- and those who see sports as fuel to drive the engine of urban redevelopment, grease the dealmaking of the nation's corporate chieftains, and supply television with a steady source of programming to wrap around commercials. Ernie Harwell and the story of baseball
The Tang Dynasty appointed local clan chieftains to govern for them.
He appears in the cartulary of the Holy Trinity, Aldgate, as an alderman in 1249 and 1250, was associated with the parish of St John, Walbrook and had an estate in Bishopsgate.3 But little is known of his origins; indeed, his mysterious background evokes Bedes comparison of the passage of a mans life with the flight of a single sparrow through a chieftains banqueting hall. Bedlam
A neighbour of mine very lately killed a chief who had been tattooed by Aranghie, and, appreciating the artist's work so highly, he skinned the chieftain's thighs, and covered his cartouch box with it. A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827
It splintered into hundreds of competing chieftainships, all led by infantes claiming descent from Afonso I, all variously cooperative or mercenary, and all dependent on the slave trade for their survival.
These are messy matters corporate chieftains would much rather handle behind closed - or, even better, locked and barricaded - boardroom doors.
The new clan chieftain was announced out of an initial 10 nominees.
Tauren Chieftain ; Starting Strength and Intelligence increased by 1.
Each army is led by a powerful Greek chieftain who aides him in regaining the kingship.
Thus would I attain honor and chieftainship in the final abode of the dead, and thus would honor remain to my father, who was the Otter. THE SICKNESS OF LONE CHIEF
I has become clear that these large claims involve issues such as chieftainship disputes and territorial expansion, even attempts to establish kingdoms lost through conquest. ANC Daily News Briefing
Intoxicated by the accolades, he changed his gait and began to sway like a peacock with his flamboyant suede chieftaincy regalia contributing to the glamour. July « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
The system of chieftaincy follows the progression of paramount chief (the king), senior chiefs, sub-chiefs, headmen and sub-headmen.
All the few in whom yet lingered any shadow of retainership towards the fast-fading chieftainship of Glenwarlock, seemed to cherish the notion that the heir of the house had to be tended and cared for like a child -- that was what they were in the world for. Warlock o' Glenwarlock
The story is narrated by the chieftain's second son, widely regarded as an ‘idiot’ but possessing both wisdom and cunning.
Barons or lesser feudal chieftains replicated this structure, which was not a flexible or adaptive one.
Abducted by the Xiongnu hordes in 195, Cai Yan lived for twelve years in Mongolia as a chieftain's wife, bearing him two children before she was finally ransomed and returned home.
After more than a decade of munificent salary-and-stock packages, many of America's corporate chieftains are departing with big retirement packages, provoking anger among some worker and shareholder activists.
Held at the end of January or beginning of February each year, Davos is where corporate chieftains and political heavies discuss making the world better while slaloming the Alps.
The funeral feast, therefore, being a general custom throughout Scotland, was not, in the opinion of those who were to share it, unseemingly mingled, on the present occasion, with the festivities which hailed the succession to the chieftainship. The Fair Maid of Perth
Also no chieftainship can clearly say that its lineage, either patrimonially, matrimonially or otherwise, has always had a dispute-free succession.
There were even curraghs, composed of ox hides stretched over hoops of willow, in the manner of the ancient British, and some committed themselves to rafts formed for the occasion, from the readiest materials that occurred, and united in such a precarious manner as to render it probable that, before the accomplishment of the voyage, some of the clansmen of the deceased might be sent to attend their chieftain in the world of spirits. The Fair Maid of Perth
His captor is the Earl Ragnar, a Danish chieftain, who raises the boy as his own, teaching him the Viking ways of war. Review: The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell
The Ministry of Personnel turned it down, but the emperor himself approved it. 113 Ningzhou (department) was initially under direct administration, however, a native chieftain bribed Liu Jin, the influential eunuch, and a native subprefect was resumed that eventually would be abolished in 1522.114 Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
Chieftains, on their conversion, made donations of land to the Church, and at first the ecclesiastical offices seem to have remained in the hands of the sept, with the coarb (inheritor) as bishop or abbot. 3. Ireland
The hype associated with this album suggests that the reason the Chieftains have been able to survive for so long is their willingness to embrace change.
The story is narrated by the chieftain's second son, widely regarded as an ‘idiot’ but possessing both wisdom and cunning.
Later, they will be entertained by The Chieftains and a troop of Irish dancers who will perform in a massive marquee which has been erected on the castle lawns.
In 1411, Sien, the native chieftain of Xichidian, asked to use silver to pay taxes of 79,800 suo of cowries that had to be purchased from Lin'an. 61 Since cowries circulated in large numbers, a kind of cowry bank (bahang) emerged. Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
For centuries, they lived in clans commanded by chieftains and feuded among themselves.
Several other principal Chiefs of the Campbells, with one voice, conjured and obtested their Chieftain to leave them for that day to the leading of Ardenvohr and Auchenbreck, and to behold the conflict from a distance and in safety. A Legend of Montrose
This effect was produced by richly framed department-store chromo lithographs on the walls, aided by lurid cushion-covers, or "tidies" representing Indian maidens or chieftains in full war paint, or clusters of poppies of great boldness of hue. T. Tembarom
The big event on Saturday is the election of the new chieftain and clan banquet in the Abbeyleix Manor Hotel.
The castles were built by the dukes, and barons, and other feudal chieftains of the middle ages, and they are placed in these commanding positions in order that the chieftains who lived in them might watch the river, and the roads leading along the banks of it, and come down with a troop of their followers to exact what they called tribute, but what those who had to pay it called plunder, from the merchants or travellers whom they saw from the windows of their watchtowers, passing up and down. Rollo on the Rhine
Fiddler Seán Keane joined the band in 1968, harpist/keyboardist Derek Bell became a full-fledged Chieftain in 1974, bodhrán specialist and singer Kevin Conneff was enlisted in 1976 and flute player Matt Molloy came on board in 1979.
Classical texts suggest that feasts involving a chieftain and his retinue were held in a circle around a central hearth or fireplace, with the alcoholic beverage circulating either in a common cup or being served by retainers.
A clutch of kings, small-time rulers and chieftains invaded your home, dazzling garments and heavy jewellery in tow.
That tall criminal is branded as the chieftain of the gang.
National Liar, Premier Minister of the Province, and First Juggler of its finances: -- a profligate in public in the name of the Church -- in secret in the name of Free-Thought -- _beau diseur_ -- demagogue of the rabble and chieftain of the Cave. The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making
Around the chieftain's neck lay a gold torc, and on his right wrist was a gold bracelet.
The first to reach the crag was a brawny brave whose eagle feather was stained scarlet as a token of chieftainship. The Conquering Sword of Conan
The toparch, Turlogh O'Connor, was the friend of O'Rourke, and forced Dermod to make restitution, but the husband and lover, of course, remained bitter enemies; and when O'Connor died, the new chieftain, Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II
Ayla is super-strong, is the chieftainess of her village of badasses, and she's a hott blonde. YesButNoButYes: Top 10 Women in Video Games
In order to rise to power, the shrewd chieftain of the Fascists did not hesitate to play the role of the apostle of free enterprise, advocating the immediate dismantling of all forms of wartime planning of economic activities.
The pandour chieftain Trenck soon became so rich, that he excited the envy of the noblest and wealthiest men in the kingdom, so rich that he was able to lend large sums of money to the powerful and influential Frederick the Great and His Family
chieftainess" of the region Kgoshi-gadi Chuene, sits on the joint development committee, actively driving the development from within. ANC Daily News Briefing
Well, mother," he said, "a chieftainess is a chieftainess, and I don't know but to announce her as such, and -- The Translation of a Savage, Complete
Around the chieftain's neck lay a gold torc, and on his right wrist was a gold bracelet.
These men may have been of sufficient influence to become imperceptibly more like chieftains in control of warbands than Roman commanders.
Despite what the DVD insert promises, the Chieftains' music is heard only briefly in the film and is mostly reserved for the opening and closing credits.
Excellency, despising the Mahratta chieftain, had allowed him to advance about two thousand miles in his front, and knew not in the slightest degree where to lay hold on him. Burlesques
There he met the famous Shoshone chieftain Washakie.
Thus, the institution of chieftaincy and its role as established by customary law, together with its councils, is important and should be maintained and guaranteed.
This new institution of monarchy required the invention of a new legitimation of authority beyond the tribal justification of chieftainship based on concepts of kinship and responsibility.
Matthias looked on, inscrutable behind his chieftain 's mustache. COASTLINERS
“King Mithridates murdered the entire Galatian thanehood twenty years ago, which left our people without chieftains. Fortune's Favorites
He has also been a guest musician on countless sessions, most notably with his old band mates in the Chieftains.
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They strongly urge the assorted presidents, prime ministers and corporate chieftains to come without their staffs and guards.
He was the head and front of all their malignity; yet, knowing all this, our chieftain swerved not from his responsibility. Our National Unity Perfected in the Martyrdom of our President
emerged as a powerful force Technically, it is inaccurate to call the Armstrongs a “clan,” a designation reserved for Gaels from the Gaeltacht, that is, Highlanders, with a recognized chieftain-based dynasty thought to be descended from the heroes of the Celtic past and with customs and traditions of governance, law, and society all of their own. First Man
the chieftain had a herald who announced his arrival with a trumpet
Lord Kazador has sworn vengeance and awaits the day when he can crush the Orc chieftain.
The Ikkery Naiks were a line of feudatory chieftains who rose to power after the decline of the mighty Vijayanagar empire following the battle of Thalikkotta in 1565.
The right to elect chieftains and to depose them.
In rural areas, political control is directed by the village chiefs or chieftainesses.
And how does it differ from sovereignty or chieftainship in practical terms (other than being easier to type)?
A thane was a sort of chieftain in the Saxon state. King Alfred of England
I regularly hear people both inside and outside the party complain about the power and excesses of factional chieftains.
A Coromantyn chieftain lead a bloody Easter morning slavery uprising in 1860 across frontier property, against the elite plantocracy.
After a year of bitter public spats with powerful group chieftains - especially in the steel and hotel businesses - Tata ousted them and installed new management.
Then later, when the schoolmaster would read from the Inverness Courier to one group after another at the post office and at the "smiddy" (it was only fear of the elder MacPherson, that kept the master from reading it aloud at the kirk door before the service) accounts of the "remarkable playing" of Cameron, the brilliant young "half-back" of the Academy in Edinburgh, the Glen settled down into an assured conviction that it had reached the pinnacle of vicarious glory, and that in all Scotland there was none to compare with their young "chieftain" as, quite ignoring the Captain, they loved to call him. Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail
Lou hung tough and earned an increasingly fine living simply by being himselfa broadcaster, a bandleader, an irrepressible salesman, and a radio station chieftain.
Kilrogg Deadeye was a legendary Orc warrior and Chieftain of the powerful Bleeding Hollow Clan.
In the durbars of the village chieftains they sang songs of war, victory and valour.
In some parts the principal idol found in the caves was the mummied or exsiccated body of some former distinguished priest or chieftain. Nagualism A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History
Baradar may have had better credentials as Mullah Omar’s brother-in-law and longtime confidant, but he was a consensus seeker, in the mold of a traditional tribal chieftain.
His army razed forty-eight Cossack settlements and killed 7,000 people; but later, fearing Ottoman expansionism, Peter allowed a revival — on the condition that Cossacks accept an ataman, or chieftain, appointed by the czar to rule the oblast. Russia's Holy Warriors
Out of the East men were moving endlessly: swordsmen, spearmen, bowmen upon horses, chariots of chieftains and laden wains.
His livestock specialist, whom he had filched from the Federal Government, in England outbid the Rothschilds’ Shire farm for Hillcrest Chieftain, quickly to be known as Forrest’s CHAPTER VI
Xu Duo in the end of the eighteenth century described in Lin'an thus: "Abo [the native people] of three thousand are all farmers, and tusi [native chieftains] of twelve are all well dressed" (Abo sanqian jie jiase, Tusi shier jin yiguan). Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
These were the fortified residences of local lords and chieftains, both of the native Irish families and the descendants of the Anglo-Norman settlers.
He was piped in like the chieftains of old by Sligo piper Eugene Conlon.
Then about that barrow the battle-keen rode, atheling-born, a band of twelve, lament to make, to mourn their king, chant their dirge, and their chieftain honor. RIP Duke Gyrth Oldcastle of Ravenspur
The youth was apparently not much delighted with his visit to this barbarous chieftain, whose dwelling was "a great dark tower, where," says he, "we had cold cheer, such as herrings and biscuit, for it was Lent. Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
For centuries, they lived in clans commanded by chieftains and feuded among themselves.
Rob's heart began to flutter as he saw the spark of recognition on the young chieftain's face.
Goats and sheep thrive; and Nyango, the chieftainess further to the south, has herds of horned cattle. A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
Bluetooth takes its name from Harald Blatand, the 10th-century Danish king who cudgeled neighboring Viking chieftains into unifying Denmark and Norway.
Since he could not be everywhere, especially in the continuous crisis of wartime, Hitler had to encourage self-reliance and independence, both in his paladins and in the regional chieftains, the Gauleiter.
Visitors may recognize other hallmark Minoan artifacts in the show: clay tablets inscribed with the still-undeciphered Linear A writing, a bull's head rhyton carved from chlorite with gilded horns, and the "Chieftain's Cup," a carved steatite conical cup with processional scene (see photo gallery). Minoans in Manhattan
It's relevant to note that the main Na'vi characters are voiced by four Black actors: Zoë Saldaña who plays the warrior princess Neytiri; CCH Pounder who plays Mo'at, the Na'vi priestess and Neytiri's mother; Laz Alonso who plays Tsu'Tey, the young warrior prince, Neytiri's betrothed and heir to the chieftainship of the Omaticayas, Neytiri's clan; and Peter Mensah who plays Akwey, leader of a plains clan of Na'vi; as well as Wes Studi, The Avatar Movie from a Black perspective
Baradar may have had better credentials as Mullah Omar’s brother-in-law and longtime confidant, but he was a consensus seeker, in the mold of a traditional tribal chieftain.
And it's a cultural divide between those who believe that baseball represents something pure and simple -- father and son deciding on the spur of the moment to take in a ballgame, some peanuts and Cracker Jack -- and those who see sports as fuel to drive the engine of urban redevelopment, grease the dealmaking of the nation's corporate chieftains, and supply television with a steady source of programming to wrap around commercials. Ernie Harwell and the story of baseball
The most locally well-known case involves Talita Mundlovu, daughter of Kwambate Mundlovu, who from 1934 to 1958 served as regulo of the chieftaincy that still bears his name in the current Posto Administrativo (PA) of Mapulanguene. Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
You know you are born for chieftainship, that is a hereditary right. IOL: News
The origins of the duchy of Normandy lie in a grant of territory around Rouen made early in the 10th cent. by the king of the west Franks to a Viking chieftain named Rollo.
Ideology justifies the rule of each ruling class, whether as chieftains, patricians, landowners, or those with capital, the bourgeoisie.
That tall criminal is branded as the chieftain of the gang.
The day demanded a wide variety of special foods: shortbread, haggis (Burns's ‘great chieftain o’ the puddin’ race ’); ‘howtowdies wi’ drappit egge’; ‘thairums, pies, and porter’; and ‘parritch and milk.’
I spent a few minutes in the abbey museum, admiring high-relief tomb carvings of bygone Scots kings and chieftains in full battle gear.
Yet none of the chieftains knew this; but far onward they sped starting from the Hyllean land, and they left behind all the islands that were beforetime thronged by the Colchians — the Liburnian isles, isle after isle, Issa, Dysceladus, and lovely Pityeia. The Argonautica
And suppose some crane-necked general to go speeding by on a tall charger, spurring the destiny of nations, red-hot in expedition, there would indubitably be some effusion of military blood, and oaths, and a certain crash of glass; and while the chieftain rode forward with a purple coxcomb, the street would be left to original darkness, unpiloted, unvoyageable, a province of the desert night. Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
The mountains were filled with his murids, who went from aoul to aoul preaching the new doctrine of the second prophet of Allah, and summoning all the warriors to rally around the chieftain commissioned by heaven to deliver the land from the threatened bondage to Russia. Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia
The durite stuff looks pretty sturdy stuff and i have already forwarded that PDF to the engineering department in america so they can test specific switches before we sell any more machines into France (and Holland). thanks for the link, it has been a big help what you need is a battery master switch box out of a old chieftain, fox or 432 or something similar they were robust bit of kit and were sealed from the elements the one out of a chieftain would be best as it had bolts for the lug terminals on the back virtually the same as chally in shape Army Rumour Service
It could be a priest, a king, chieftain or tribal leader.
According to Innes, all that was conferred to chieftains in royal charters was the arable land on estates - not the waste land and mountains.
The lord had many of the characteristics of a patriarchal chieftain, but his prerogative was limited by a variety of settled customs traceable to the express conditions which had been agreed upon when the infeudation took place. Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society
In 1433, local people in Nan'an Department appealed to establish native chieftainship. Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
This was no easy task and several attempts were made on his life by chieftains who feared that he was going to take their kingdoms.
Furthermore, instilling in these youth the state ideology would transform these "barbarians" into civilized subjects, who in turn would civilize their "barbarian" subjects, since many of these young students came from elite families and many would succeed leaderships within the native chieftainship. Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
Matthias looked on, inscrutable behind his chieftain 's mustache. COASTLINERS
After the Ottoman Empire gained general control of the area in 1516, Lebanon continued to maintain a feudal system of rule by local chieftains.
In 1726, the native chieftain of Zhenyuan prefecture was replaced with Liu Hongdu, who was assigned as subprefect (tongzhi) in charge of the prefecture. Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
With the economy flailing, many corporate executives and leveraged-buyout chieftains are taking a wait-and-see attitude.
But these days, people are buying the chieftaincy institutions with their money, he said. Ghanaian Youth Leader Urges Elders to End Chieftaincy Disputes
Archeologists have found evidence that a warrior chieftain took control over most of Greece back in the early seventh century B.C.
Here they had cultivated maize, and were willing to sell, but no persuasion could induce them to give us guides to the chieftainess, Nyango. A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
They're populated by gentry, religious, working people, strangers, supernaturals, and an occasional chieftain, and at some point, everyone dances.
Instead, he argues that if the Henry VIII/Anthony St Leger policy of "surrender and regrant" had been consistently applied, Ireland could have been integrated into the Tudor realms without much more difficulty than Wales or the far north of England, with the Gaelic chieftains converted to loyal-ish subjects rather than fractious objects of military adventure. September Books 19) Tudor Ireland
The country had lost its charismatic leader, the clan its chieftain.
Once that pole had lifted a banner of ragged black marsh-flopper skin bearing the device of the Kragan riever-chieftain whose family had built the castle; now it carried a neat rectangle of blue bunting emblazoned with the wreathed globe of the Terran Uller Uprising
At St. Thomas's they show you a tower, a little distance from the town, which they say formerly belonged to a bucanier chieftain. Wanderings in South America
The Caliphate became a monarchy, first absolute, then nominal, controlled by oligarchies, feudal lords, warlords, tribal chiefs and regional chieftains.
The enemy chieftain was opposed and deserted by his followers.
The Bedouin chieftain Zahir al-'Umar, who eventually carved out the equivalent of a fiefdom in northern Palestine, had gone to Damascus briefly as a youth and received some instruction there.
Armed to the teeth and clad in kilt, tartan hose and bonnet, he looks every inch the clan chieftain.
Azhag's career of carnage began when he was chieftain of a small Orc tribe from the Troll country.
According to some history books and big Indian epics, Aryans were separated into several tribes with Rajah, the Indian chieftain.
Such chieftaincy disputes are frequent in the Greater Accra region and in other parts of the country. Ghanaian Youth Leader Urges Elders to End Chieftaincy Disputes
From his throne of ivory and sculpted wood, the king ruled through an elaborate network of councilors and governors, clan elders and local chieftains, priests and electors.
A certain bestubbled, black turtleneck-wearing chieftain in Cupertino, Calif., may smite us for saying so, but perhaps it's time to raise a blasphemous notion: Now is not a good time to buy Apple stock. Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com
The Guarani were horticulturists organized in chieftainships based on extended kinship.
And a very grand old lady she was, full three feet high, and bolt upright, like some old Highland chieftainess. The Water Babies
Rock stars are known by their tattoos, and even corporate chieftains proudly ink themselves, tattooing the logo of their brand into their skin as a permanent statement of brand loyalty.
When Bernard Madoff made off with $50 billion from elite investors, it caused a virtual tectonic shift in the idea of unassailable integrity among the Wall Street chieftains. US Market Commentary from Seeking Alpha
When also a chieftain, desirous of raising a band of volunteers for some expedition against the enemy, rides from aoul to aoul summoning all good swords to follow, he transports along with him on the crupper of an attendant the aged minstrel, who at the gates sings the call to arms. Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia
Armed to the teeth and clad in kilt, tartan hose and bonnet, he looks every inch the clan chieftain.
The silent and robust young man riding the horse that drew her kibitka was the chieftain of his tribe.
By February the Indian caciques (leaders or chieftains) saw the Spaniards were at their mercy and refused to provide any more provisions.
Beyond that, there were 10,000 further titles of nobility (chiefs, chieftains, feudal barons and lairds), so that one Scot in 45 belonged to a noble house.
In no case did chieftainship give rise to a caste system.
Though there were a number older than he, they acknowledged his chieftaincy. Under the Deck Awnings
The rebelion chieftain was opposed by the masses and deserted by his followers.
Mr. OMAR ZEB (Farmer): (Through Translator) Whatever aid is coming here, it is channelized through the influential people of this area, like the chieftains and the maliks, and they are the landed gentry, and even the aid agencies approach them. Pakistani Flood Victims Cope Without Bridges, Aid
Matthias looked on, inscrutable behind his chieftain 's mustache. COASTLINERS
Some kind of chieftainship seems coeval with the first advance from the state of separate wandering families to that of a nomadic tribe. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library
It's fitting that the Hawaiian Chieftain sails San Francisco Bay regularly: A square-rigged topsail ketch, her rigging and hull shape are reminiscent of trading vessels that sailed along the West Coast in the 18th century.
Scholars have waged war over the theories of transmission of the so-called Arthurian material during the centuries which elapsed between the time of the fabled chieftain's activity in 500 A.D. and his appearance as a great literary personage in the twelfth century. Four Arthurian Romances
At first I thought it probable that Alexander might have derived it from the bracteates or gold medals, which he must have often seen worn on the breasts of Norwegian kings and chieftains.
Through the ages trade has occurred between clans, tribal chieftainships, and kingdoms.
Unlike the greedy profiteers and corporate chieftains who actually made money on those stocks, we were not acting irresponsibly.
These men were knit together by the personal bond they each had with their king or chieftain.
Classical texts suggest that feasts involving a chieftain and his retinue were held in a circle around a central hearth or fireplace, with the alcoholic beverage circulating either in a common cup or being served by retainers.
In both capacities he actively opposed traditional institutions such as chieftainship, the ancestor cult, the practice of magic, polygyny and bridewealth, that kept tribesmen away from the church. Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950
Kilrogg Deadeye was a legendary Orc warrior and Chieftain of the powerful Bleeding Hollow Clan . He is so named because he lost his right eye.
Its principal agents were the klepht or brigand chieftains, best represented by Theodore Kolokotrones. The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, G.C.B., Admiral of the Red, Rear-Admiral of the Fleet, Etc., Etc. Vol. I
In order to meet these threats, a warrior caste developed under the command of a chieftain or king.
Of course snorted Northwind to himself, among so many Chieftains his identity was denominated by his clan name, only a being with enormous mental control would have managed to bring them to this point today.
Maories went wild with excitement when the Bishop presented first the Queen, then the Duke, with a korowai - a ceremonial cloak of fine flax fibre, with black tassles, signifying the highest order of chieftainship.
We smoked a hookah with the local chieftains afterwards.
From the havens of Harad ships of war put out to sea; and out of the East men were moving endlessly: swordsmen, spearmen, bowmen upon horses, chariots of chieftains and laden wains.
He goes off to play a chieftain in a school production of South Pacific and returns to his office, in costume, to talk to an importunate but delightful female student with whom he chats, dances, flirts, and drums.
Arab garments and rode horses and camels on long trips across desolate, unmapped landscapes, reporting back on the intrigues among tribal chieftains during the last days of the Ottoman Empire.
In some cases, the highly compensated corporate chieftains are presiding over companies that are slashing payrolls.
The chieftain laid in uniforms of his own designing, and strolled about the Grande Rue de Péra, gaudy in a Turkish military fez, white ducks and gloves, and a blue coat beplastered with gold lace. The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography
Henry II came to Ireland in order to secure the feudal loyalty of the Normans, and many Irish chieftains.
Several other principal Chiefs of the Campbells, with one voice, conjured and obtested their Chieftain to leave them for that day to the leading of Ardenvohr and Auchenbreck, and to behold the conflict from a distance and in safety. — A Legend of Montrose
Mackenzie stares out of his portrait beneath a military kepi and above a flourishing hedgerow of beard, a hybrid of fiery Highland chieftain and determined Victorian philanthropist.
In women's recollections of their youth (circa 1910-40), the horizons of shared place were at the same time fairly limited and infinitely elastic, defined principally by the ganga (subdistrict) or tiko (in this context, chieftaincy) where they resided but also by the landscape they or their peers traversed through visiting and trade and had "seen with [their] eyes. Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
Beyond that, there were 10,000 further titles of nobility (chiefs, chieftains, feudal barons and lairds), so that one Scot in 45 belonged to a noble house.
We have a chieftaincy constitution in our country. Ghanaian Youth Leader Urges Elders to End Chieftaincy Disputes
His opposite number was Arminius, a Germanic chieftain who had served in the Roman army as commander of auxiliary forces and was, therefore, a Roman citizen.
The CIA character "begs for the green light to capture or kill the al Qaeda chieftain, but the line goes dead, suggesting that Berger and his colleagues, including Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright and Defense Secretary William S. Cohen, frozen in indecision, had hung up on the CIA man. 9/11
In Beckwourth's self-portrait, he amassed so many honors as a Crow warrior that he rose to a chieftainship, rich in wives and ponies, dauntless in battle, and venerated for his wisdom and leadership.

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