Sentence examples for a chieftain of from inspiring English sources

Mahavira, like the Buddha, was the son of a chieftain of the Kshatriya (warrior) class.

Logan spoke to a chieftain of the Clan McClean, who aren't at all keen on DNA tests.

The Syrians, for example, maintained a court overseen by the rais (raʾīs), a chieftain of importance under the Frankish regime.

A brief civil war followed, and in 1872 a chieftain of Tigray became emperor as John Yohannes IVIV.

IN MARCH, Iván Roberto Duque, a chieftain of Colombia's right-wing paramilitary vigilantes, accused Óscar Trujillo, the mayor of the small town of Aguadas, of killing a congressman.

In the Mahabharata he is primarily a hero, a chieftain of a tribe, and an ally of the Pandavas, the heroes of the Mahabharata.

The cult of the Egyptian god Amon Re was strongly entrenched among the Cushites, and a threat by Tefnakhte, a Libyan chieftain of the Nile delta, to Amon's homeland in Upper Egypt provoked Piye to move northward.

Perhaps he was some sort of a chieftain". However, Professor Frank Ruehli of the University of Zurich, the medical doctor who performed the original autopsy, is not totally convinced by the burial theory.

Lemuel seems to have been a tribal chieftain of northwest Arabia, in the region of Edom.

The town is named for Dhenka, a medieval chieftain of the Savara people.

About 1465 Rao Bika, a Rajput chieftain of the Rathor clan, began to conquer the area from other Rajput clans.