Sentence examples for deceased head of from inspiring English sources

The report also focused on the union's employment of so many relatives of organized crime figures, most notably Vincent Gigante, the deceased head of the Genovese crime family, who was known as the Chin.

For a long time, the eldest son of the deceased head of the family refused to comply with the response team's advice to minimise contact within the family, and to disperse in the various family houses instead of gathering around the central ones.

In this entertaining biography-cum-travelogue, an NPR host explores our national obsession with deceased heads of state by taking a cross-country tour to memorials, monuments, assassination sites, and even a Hoover-Ball tournament a hybrid of volleyball and doubles tennis, using a medicine ball, that was played almost daily by the thirty-first President.

High-profile figures on the list include the now-deceased former head of Santander, Emilio Botin - whose family have had to pay 200m euros ($226m £148mm) to the Spanish government.

During Mao Tse-tung's reign, Chinese funerals culminated in a short speech by the head of the deceased's work unit praising the departed's contributions to socialism.

In Japanese sects, particularly in the Shingon and other Buddhist sects, a razor (made of gold in the Jōdo sects) is used for an actual or simulated tonsure of the head of the deceased.

It is orthodox Muslim belief that when someone dies the Angel of Death (malāk al-mawt) arrives, sits at the head of the deceased, and addresses each soul according to its known status.

Artisans also made gold bands impressed with animal and human figures, which were put on the head of a deceased person, often in a way that would keep the mouth closed.

The search for the present Dalai Lama commenced in earnest in 1935 when the embalmed head of his deceased predecessor is said to have wheeled around and pointed toward northeastern Tibet.

But at the very end of his four hours of understated yet horrifying testimony — in one case, he said he had to put a can under the head of the deceased to keep blood from flowing all over the floor — prosecutors led him slowly through the details of the murder of Debra Davis, his own girlfriend, who was 26.

A wig with long black hair was placed on the head of the deceased and kept in place with a black-colored cap.