Capitol Hill is a world of warring chieftains and headless chickens.
He writes of the bloody attack on what intelligence reported as a meeting of warring chieftains; they turned out to be tribal elders seeking to broker a truce.
Like Akira Kurosawa in his movie Throne of Blood, Ninagawa shifted the action to a 16th-century samurai world dominated by warring chieftains.
Homer's Odyssey tells the story of how, during her husband's long absence after the Trojan War, many chieftains of Ithaca and nearby islands become her suitors.
The charisma-impaired Jim Caviezel doesn't help matters as the space-traveling Beowulf, though John Hurt and Ron Perlman spice things up as warring Viking chieftains.
Seeing a baseball bat in a museum places it in the same context as a chieftain's war club or a king's scepter.
In Henry IV, Part 2 these Eastcheap figures dominate the action even more than they do in Part 1. Henry IV's son John of Lancaster is leading the ongoing war against the Welsh chieftain, Owen Glendower, and Hotspur's father, Henry Percy, earl of Northumberland.
Elisheva had five reasons to rejoice above the other daughters of Israel: her brother-in-law was king; her husband, High Priest; her sons, deputy [priests], her grandson, a priest-ordained-for-war; and her brother, chieftain of a tribe -- and [yet] she had to mourn two sons.
Feuding between rival groups culminated in outright civil war in 1824, prompting one chieftain, Makriyannis, to protest that he had not taken up arms against the Turks in order to end up fighting Greeks.
