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Example sentences for: chieftains

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The Guanches are not forgotten either: ten chieftains stand guard in a row, with their backs to the Atlantic.
Actually, he probably would have fit in pretty well with the corporate chieftains of the late 1950s and early 1960s, when there was no foreign and not much domestic competition and the old-boy network was in full effect.
But the top of New York society consists of people who make far more money than magazine editors do--investment bankers, corporate chieftains, and fashion designers.
The only way the ad could have painted a less savory picture of corporate chieftains would have been if the teacher had forced one of the other students to stand up.
With the Dutch concentrating once more on Java and the Moluccas in the 18th century, the Bugis took advantage of the vacuum by raiding Perak and Kedah, imposing their chieftains in Selangor and becoming the power behind the throne in Johor.