Sentence examples for capo from inspiring English sources

Presently, a celebration is under way of Flann O'Brien's ingenious novel "At Swim-Two-Birds", which treats Irish history and literature as a fit subject for farce.On May 25th, however, these fine and funny writers found themselves in the shade of the capo di tutti i capi, W.B. Yeats, the polymath's polymath.

It dissolved the Centre for the Administration of Peace and Order (CAPO), the government agency tasked with overlooking security.

Mr Bonanno rose in the 1960s to be the capo di tutti i capi, boss of bosses.

Now Bill Bennett, the capo di tutti capi of the virtuecrats, has been caught, if not with his trousers down, then at least with his hand glued to the slot machines of Las Vegas and Atlantic City.Mr Bennett, serving in Republican administrations as both education secretary and drug tsar, has scolded the nation's youth.

Antonino Giuffre had been a top capo (boss) close to Bernardo Provenzano, Sicily's boss of bosses who has been on the run for over 30 years.

The convoluted plots and the conventions of the opera seria style, with their long da capo (repeat) arias, were thought to make them unperformable.

He was also a close friend and neighbour of James Dobson, the movement's capo di tutti capi, and an enthusiastic ally of George Bush.

"With the family emphasis on self-worth," he once wrote, "I longed to be first in everything, to be king of the hill, the grammar school capo di capo".

GLIDING across the border in a 30-limousine convoy, Roh Moo-hyun, South Korea's president, will on October 2nd visit Pyongyang and meet North Korea's capo, Kim Jong Il, for three days of talks.

Police officials said the murders of Messrs Millán and Velasco were probably both ordered by Arturo Beltrán Leyva, a capo in the Sinaloa drug cartel.

He was a careful man.The traditionRelated items The Mafia: Cosy comfort for Cosa NostraMay 16th 2002 A survey of Italy: Cosa Nostra, continuedJul 5th 2001 Mobster comedies: A mafia capo and his shrinkApr 1st 1999If Joseph Bonanno had a weakness it was his desire for respectability.