Sentence examples for fierce tribe from inspiring English sources

A FILM that depicts Taiwan's half-century of Japanese colonial rule from the point of view of a fierce tribe of indigenous headhunters is generating a surge of national pride on the island.

This infamously fierce tribe was the bane of Spanish invaders – they apparently poured molten gold down the throat of a unpopular Spanish governor in 1599 in a gruesome version of poetic justice by satisfying his thirst for gold.

Some other early writers about Brazil were far more imaginative: despite never actually existing, a fierce tribe of female warriors were reported so often that they have a giant river named after them (the Amazon).Knivet and Quarisisacupa made their way back to the Indian village where he had been welcomed before and found the same chief in charge.

When she left the jungle, in the mid-80s, upriver Yanomami had heard of the police, but they pictured them as being an especially fierce tribe who all lived in the same village.

When Weems wrote, "As a playground for body fascists and crack whores, the circuit has a sacred dimension," in The Fierce Tribe, he was being facetious, of course.

Richard Elliott Friedman, for example, a distinguished scholar, built an elegant case that the Exodus did indeed occur, but just for one fierce tribe, the Levites.

The New York Times reported that there were more than 4,000, made during "the old days when the Army was warring with the fierce tribes of the Northwest".

To our right was Dagestan, to our left Chechnya; below were the deep valleys of the Tusheti region of Georgia, a wild land once inhabited by fierce tribes who battled with their neighbours, hence the 17th-century watchtowers.

They return, and 10 of the spies claim that despite the fact that the land is good, rich and "flowing with milk and honey," it is also filled with fierce tribes and giants.

In Commonwealth, that flotsam is the "fierce little tribe" of the six Cousins and Keating children, each of whom corresponds to her own stepsiblings.

Similarly, two attempts to buy weapons for Abdul Haq's ill-fated expedition into Afghanistan were foiled by Pashtun tribesmen from the fierce Afridi tribe - almost certainly acting on ISI orders.