Sentence examples for other chieftains from inspiring English sources

Other chieftains asked for more actual shares of stock, which -- unlike options -- have immediate value even in a bear market.

Several other chieftains also found themselves reduced to running as independents after failing to find a spot on a party ticket.

He and other chieftains have deployed a tribal army of 4,000 bearded Marwats along their 110km (70-mile) Waziristan frontier.

His two wars with Vijayanagar gained him little, but his attack on Telingana in 1363 brought him a large indemnity, including the turquoise throne and the town of Golconda with its dependencies; in 1365 his rapid response to a rebellion by the governor of Daulatabad and some Maratha and other chieftains of Berar and Baglana led to a quick victory.

He also claimed that he would attempt to force the submission of the other chieftains.

He fought alongside several other chieftains during the successful siege of Ypati, which had been fortified with considerable Ottoman forces.

He had lived large, in the manner of many other Bedouin chieftains, and fathered more than forty sons by two dozen or so wives and concubines.

Like Harold Geneen, of I.T.T., and other conglomerate chieftains of that era, Kreuger thought that all businesses could be reduced to ledgers studied in the antiseptic atmosphere of a corporate suite.

Cézanne's strangely combined radical penchants and conservative nostalgias, both advancing worldly change and resisting it, call to mind other conflicted chieftains of modernism, such as T. S. Eliot.

A shareholder vote in favor of that idea would be a rebuke of Mr. Tillerson, who is widely perceived as more resistant than other oil chieftains to investing in alternative energy.

Rather, it was ordered built by the Umayyad emir Abd-ar-Ramman I, probably in part to commemorate his successful conquest of Cordoba in the 750's, fought against other Muslim chieftains loyal to the rival Abbasid Caliphate, and his successful repulsion of subsequent Abbasid attempts to dislodge him by force throughout the 760's.