Sentence examples for battle chieftain from inspiring English sources

King Arthur Pendragon says that this year, alongside the blessings, prayers and healings, members of the Council of British Druid Orders CBDOof – of which he is Battle Chieftain – may be driven to hitch up their robes and embrace "direct action" in the next stage of their dispute with English Heritage over the public display of excavated human remains inside its shiny new building.

Today, as the elected "Battle Chieftain" of the Council of British Druid Orders, King Arthur and his Loyal Arthurian Warband represent the political wing of Britain's neo-druid community.

At the time, the Maharaja of Travancore was battling local chieftains.

Guru Gobind Singh assumed all the trappings of a chieftain, gave battle to Mughal forces on more than one occasion, and founded a new centre at Anandpur in 1689.

"It was the evil Russian tank of the cold war generation," said Drive a Tank owner Tony Borglum, who also owns a British-issued Chieftain Main Battle Tank.

Time Team's discoveries have included the remains of the first Spitfire to be shot down during the Battle of Britain and a chieftain's brooch in the centre of a Viking Boat Burial in Scotland.

An early medieval example is found in the Saxon poem the Heliand, in which the gospel story is told with Christ as the warrior chieftain leading his companions into battle against Satan, the enemy of mankind.

Making History fans the embers of late-16th-century Ulster history, and the enigmatic figure of clan chieftain Hugh O'Neill, routed at the Battle of Kinsale in 1601 - a defining moment in the demise of old Gaelic culture.

The Druze chieftain Walid Jumblatt, whose fighters fought vicious battles against Christian forces in the war, has included George Adwan, who once led a radical right-wing Maronite militia, on his list in the Druze-dominated Shouf region.

After Harald's death Slembe allied himself with Magnus the Blind, but they were defeated by chieftains loyal to Harald Gille's family in the Battle of Holmengrå.

And the accompanying reading, from the book of Judges, tells the story of how, in her own later time, Deborah the prophetess, who "judged Israel in those days" (Judges, chapter 4) summoned the people's leading warrior, Barak ben Abinoam, to send him in battle against the Canaanite forces of Jabin, king of Hazor and the warrior chieftain, Sisera.