Sentence examples for confederation whose from inspiring English sources

The violence on Monday broke out near the home of Sadeq al-Ahmar, the titular leader of Yemen's most powerful tribal confederation, whose family supports the opposition.

Of mixed origins, including some Arab ancestry, they have been described as a loose tribal confederation whose composition, since the time of the Turkish occupation in 1821, has undergone a number of changes.

The regiments of the Bar Confederation, whose executive board had been forced to leave Austria (which previously supported them ) after that country joined the Prusso-Russian alliance, did not lay down their arms.

Populated by officials with government links, the executive committees of for example the IOC or the Asian Football Confederation, whose president, Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, a member of Bahrain's minority Sunni Muslim ruling family, is a FIFA vice president, tells the story of the incestuous relationship between sports and politics.

Thinis is, as yet, undiscovered but well attested to by ancient writers, including the classical historian Manetho, who cites it as the centre of the Thinite Confederacy, a tribal confederation whose leader, Menes (or Narmer), united Egypt and was its first pharaoh.

The Senecas were (and still are) the Keepers of the Western Door of the Iroquois Confederacy, whose governmental procedures helped inspire the Articles of Confederation adopted by the 13 colonies in 1777 and whose matriarchal society and tradition of property rights for women influenced the founders of the American feminist movement in the 1840's.

To protect the United States from that unhappy fate, leaders like James Madison called for radically revising the Articles of Confederation, under whose rules the fledgling republic was then governed.

November 17, 1861 Morpeth, Canada February 10 , 1899Ottawa, Canada Archibald Lampman, (born Nov. 17, 1861, Morpeth, Ont. died Feb. 10, 1899, Ottawa), Canadian poet of the Confederation group, whose most characteristic work sensitively records the feelings evoked by scenes and incidents of northern landscapes and seasons.

Kevin Green, chief executive of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC), whose members are "on the front line of the UK labour market" as he puts it, paints an alarming picture.

Until his death, in 2007, Abdullah al-Ahmar was the head of Yemen's most powerful tribal confederation, the Hashids, whose members live primarily in the north.

In 1836 fighting broke out between the confederation and Chile, whose relations with independent Peru had already been strained by economic problems centring on rivalry between their ports of Callao (near Lima) and Valparaíso, Chile.