Sentences with phrase «old chieftain»

The cause of the 85 - year - old chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC is still sketchy at press time.

So we might have expected the Old Chieftain to make short work of Newfoundland and Labrador's recent gambit to extract $ 280 million from Ottawa in exchange for its co-operation in the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with the European Union.

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Having seen an Arab chieftain's son, who had attended the American University in Beirut, make his decision between the old nomadic life of his clan, still living in tents, and the new town life which his education made possible, one vividly understands that, choosing the former, he inevitably chose submergence in the social solidarity of his group as against emergence into the individualism of a commercial community.

What Old Testament scholarship has managed to show is the probability that Abraham and Jacob were two of the more important chieftains who led migrating tribes from upper Mesopotamia to Canaan, and that some of the stories now gathered in the sagas originated around these historical figures.

The sense of period is very convincing exceptâ $» perverselyâ $» in its resurrection of two stock characters of the distant past: the mystically avuncular old Negro (Clarence Muse) with his pipe and fringe of white hair, and the relentlessly villainous Arab (Dogmi Larbi, The Man Who Would Be Kingâ $ ™ s blowhard chieftain Ootah) â $» this one actually steals the kidâ $ ™ s life preserver when the ship is sinking; he also steals sugar from the horse!

He was my old clan chieftain; my Highland warrior, defending his people and trying to do the right thing.

As writers are apt to do, a story was born out of a visit to one particularly old castle that is still held by the clan and the clan's chieftain.