Sentence examples for chieftains from inspiring English sources

The local Labour-led council has done some heroic work, most notably on building social housing, but it has been told off by the chieftains on the Westminster frontbench for "running ahead of national policy".

But Afghanistan cannot go for long without politicians who command wide assentMuch of the south and east is being carved up into fiefs by Pushtun chieftains who answer to no central authority.

Nearly all of the ten AUC chieftains who will gather for the talks at a government-protected "location zone" in Córdoba are under investigation for drugs.

There are clear signs that Russia and Iran together are trying to establish the Alliance as the outright winner of the war, and want to restrict American and, especially, Pakistani involvement in any post-war settlement.Much of the south and east is being carved up into fiefs by Pushtun chieftains who answer to no central authority.

And many kings, queens, pharoahs and chieftains of old.Here's the deal.

A coalition of the three left-of-centre parties seems far-fetched.In Mrs Merkel's camp, chieftains with the stature to challenge her leadership have recently left politics (Christian Wulff, the former premier of Lower Saxony, became federal president last year).

LIKE driven game, four once-proud chieftains of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) braved the massed guns of a parliamentary committee on February 10th.

But that was before the LDP's chieftains cracked the whip and forced the prime minister to bow deeply and make a formal apology.Hiromu Nonaka, the LDP's tough secretary-general, reminded Mr Mori that he was prime minister 24 hours a day and whenever he opened his mouth he did so as the leader of the country.

But some Mahdi Army factions may be targeting foreigners in general in response to the arrest and killing of several of their chieftains by American forces in the course of the four-month-old "surge" of soldiers into Baghdad.American commanders have until now regarded Mr Sadr as "reconcilable", saying he has usually acquiesced in their attempt to pacify the city.

Many resent its pretensions to speak for them.Kurdistan, too, remains divided between two clan chieftains who pose as modern politicians.

The euro zone's chieftains promised "determined and co-ordinated action" should the euro come under threat.