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Example sentences for: patriarch

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Very often the emperor was only a minor, so that the Fujiwara patriarch acted as regent.
Not a whodunnit at all, it's more like a postmodern western, the parable of an unruly patriarch driven to madness by a long line of unruly patriarchs before him; an impotent vigilante in search of something--anything--to shoot.
A patriarch is dying.
By passing his stock on to a foundation, rather than to family members themselves, the patriarch could guarantee that it wouldn't be sold by heirs or dispersed over the generations.
Set in England before World War I, the play (based on an actual incident) tells the story of an adolescent boy expelled from a military academy for the theft of a five-shilling postal money order, and the financially ruinous attempt of his proper patriarch (played in the film by Nigel Hawthorne) to clear his son's name.