Sentence examples for as a chieftain from inspiring English sources
But Mr. Durant, who looks like a cheerful Jim Morrison, with shoulder-length curly hair, has emerged over the last year as a chieftain of sorts among 10 or so other cavemen.
Seeing a baseball bat in a museum places it in the same context as a chieftain's war club or a king's scepter.
It deals with the tragedy of a Han dynasty court lady, Wang Zhojun, who, through the intrigue of a vicious portrait painter, was picked by mistake to be sent away to Central Asia as a chieftain's consort.
Still, "at four...long before my fall into the bitter sophistication which allows us to disdain the figures who make our doubting--our very thinking--possible, I regarded Uncle Admiral as a chieftain and Mankind as the family we both belonged to.
As a preacher and a chieftain, as a role model and as a liaison to governments, his leadership helped his people survive contact with Europeans.
As a tribal chieftain in Iraq's most rebellious city, Sheik Khamis el-Essawi has met more American commanders in the last seven months than he can remember.
Tillerson, after all, has spent his career as a corporate chieftain — one who knows the value of pushing economic interests to the top of every calculation.
"They are everywhere, the Syrians -- stupidly," said Walid Jumblatt, the leader of Lebanon's Druse minority, whose authority as a clan chieftain affords him some freedom to speak his mind and who believes the Syrian behavior unnecessarily creates hostility.
Mr. Skilling, 59, who has been serving his sentence at a federal prison in Colorado, appeared in court on Friday wearing an olive-drab prison uniform and a salt-and-pepper beard, and looking bulkier than he did during his days as a corporate chieftain.
What saves the film from being a complete dud are cameo appearances by four cute penguins, Ali G's hilarious turn as a marsupial chieftain of indeterminate mammalian provenance, and Cedric the Entertainer's yeoman work as Ali G's aide-de-camp.
After this, Cutzinas remained as a vassal chieftain, receiving regular pay from the Byzantine authorities.
