Sentence examples for chief choose from inspiring English sources

True, there was no Poirot passing through on a Caribbean cruise, though it would have been up his street – I mean, why would the island's happy-go-lucky British police chief choose to shoot himself in someone else's house in a room that only locks from the inside, if not to attract the attention of Belgium's finest?

Brown did not name Sanders as police chief, choosing instead Fred Lau, who became the department's first Asian-American chief.

Little is known of Illinois social organization, but it was probably similar to that of the Miami, with a civil chief elected from among a village council and a war chief chosen according to his ability to lead raids.

Each section is headed by a subchief, who is the eldest suitable descendant in the male line of the founder of the area; the chiefdom is headed by a paramount chief chosen on the same basis.

The chief chose to treat the boy with traditional plant medicines rather than send him a day's journey downstream to Puerto Esperanza.

"The local police chief chose not to cite the supervisory natural resource specialist for the misdemeanor violation and the U.S. Attorney's Office declined prosecution," the report states.

(In Zimbabwe, the public elects only 120 of the 150 members of Parliament. The president chooses 20 and local chiefs choose 10).

It turns out she has over-trained and GB Rowing chiefs choose to withdraw Stanning from the European Championships at the end of the month and significantly reduce her training.

Each village was presided over by one or more chiefs chosen for wisdom and bravery.

But Wallis and Futuna also comprise three traditional kingdoms that are still ruled by paramount chiefs chosen by their people.

British colonizers obliged the acephalous, traditionally stateless Kipsikis to accept chiefs chosen from among them and introduced a system of courts.