Sentence examples for chiefdom from inspiring English sources

John Momodu Kargbo, who heads an Ebola response team in the district said his village was in the poorest chiefdom of the Bombali region.

It is the poorest chiefdom in the district, very remote, very rural and not many people live there.

When she married, it was an arranged match, with a Sindhi bigwig, Asif Ali Zardari, whom she described in her autobiography as "the heir to the chiefdom of the 100,000-strong Zardari tribe".

A number of villages constituted an independent chiefdom of a few thousand people.

A chiefdom is divided into districts; the head of each district serves as a liaison between the paramount chief and his people.

The Northwest Coast Indians elaborated a hierarchical form of organization, or chiefdom.

Sometimes an ephemeral sort of near-chiefdom arises, founded on the capabilities of a charismatic leader.

Later, many of these, and dozens of celebrity friends and acquaintances wrote for her for free, burnishing the Huffington name, propelling her on to the international stage, helping her achieve the $315m sale price to AOL, and the editor-in-chiefdom of its entire media holdings.

However, since 1905 the nine Ngok Dinka chiefdoms have been administered within the "Northern" region of Kordofan, as a result of a redrawing of provincial borders during the Anglo-Egyptian colonial period.

Chiefdoms are divided into sections governed by subchiefs and containing one or more villages or hamlets.

Outstanding arts of the chiefdoms of the north Andean portion of South America that did continue include pottery and stone carving of seats and statues (but generally not of architecture).