| The herd's massive matriarch advanced towards me with her ears spread threateningly. |
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| It's life trapped in a country manse with a matriarch who's perpetually in manic mode. |
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| But now I am happily married to a powerful matriarch and all the potency of my other heterosocial relationships has evaporated. |
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| The dying matriarch of the family has set off a battle between her descendants for control of the estate. |
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| Better by far to humbly defer to the family matriarch for the perfect dish. |
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| When she feels threatened, an elephant matriarch will group her family in defensive position, which prevents foraging. |
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| Here was mummy, the matriarch, whose strength had sustained us for so many years, her own health now in limbo. |
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| Their 500-acre farm in Plainfield has been in the family since the family matriarch, Doris, was a child. |
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| We arrived in Mallaig just before 9am, posted a card to the family matriarch, and set off home. |
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| The legend goes that Karni Mata, a mystic matriarch from the 14th century, was an incarnation of Durga, the goddess of power and victory. |
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| Andalucia is a traditional, rural society where, despite all evidence of macho posturing, the power of the matriarch holds sway. |
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| Attended by a lady-in-waiting, the remarkable royal matriarch arrived at the north nave door and was conducted to the quire. |
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| In literature and film, she has been portrayed as a powerful matriarch within the confines of the miner's home and family. |
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| The organization contributed to the development of the matriarch of Philly basketball. |
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| Our instructor is a bean sprout chewing yogic matriarch who speaks in hushed tones so as not to upset the alignment of her shakras. |
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| If a favourable patch of ground is found around the burrow of the matriarch, the small spiderling will settle there. |
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| Whitewater's grandmother, who is the matriarch, decides which sheep are butchered and when. |
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| It is, of course, a memorial to the matriarch, the slab representing her headstone. |
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| She will be well remembered for her role as matriarch of a large family her indomitable spirit and brilliance at the piano. |
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| There's nothing quite like a domineering matriarch to fall in love with and Streep not only neuters her on-screen male counterparts but the audience as well. |
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| The matriarch denies any suggestion that the bit was played up for dramatic effect. |
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| The matriarch shrugged her shoulders and said that supplies were short. |
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| They form a matriarchy, a herd of females led by the dominant matriarch, who all band together to raise and protect and teach each other and their young calves. |
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| On the other end of the phone was my Grandma Rose, a can-do matriarch calling from her home on Avenue U, six blocks away. |
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| But as a matriarch with three sons, she is upset about the arrests of the youngsters in Daraa. |
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| But there is bad blood between Mr Yudhoyono and Megawati Sukarnoputri, matriarch of the PDI-P party to which Jokowi belongs. |
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| The oldest and largest female is the matriarch who leads the others in the endless search for food and water. |
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| The village matriarch may also be engaged to bless the group by having them crawl through her legs while she stands astride. |
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| As with the African elephants, the matriarch is in charge and ensures that all in the herd follow the social customs of the community. |
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| Perhaps there will be a woman matriarch and all dharma transmission would go only from woman to woman. |
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| The clamor would have ceased as the matriarch led a retreat and the danger would have seemed to pass. |
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| Shortly after she was granted asylum, the matriarch of the Kovac family dies. |
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| We are greeted by three women belonging to different generations:the matriarch,her daughter-inlaw and her 14-year-old granddaughter. |
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| Grand matriarch, she always knew how to be part of our lifes, here with us and at her last retirement home with our friends. |
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| The 11th of Cheshvan marks the yahrzeit of our matriarch, Rachel. |
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| The ceremony completed, the matriarch led her family into the sunset. |
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| One of those families is the Cucho family, headed by 69-year-old matriarch Natividad Cucho Velasquez. |
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| In the main house lived his eighty-year-old nonna, the matriarch, reliably dressed in black in the custom of Italian widows. |
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| The matriarch of the family today got herself a literary agent. |
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| The assumption that the Windsor matriarch, alone of her tribe, offered a symbol impervious to scepticism, reproach, censure, even simple boredom, has been dispelled. |
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| Listen to her story about making jewelry with Rebecca Lolosoli, matriarch of the Umoja Uaso women's village. |
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| If indeed the suit was a gamble by the Jackson matriarch to amass a sizable bank account of her own, it did not pay off. |
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| Cow-calf Group: A cohesive group of females and their calves led by the matriarch or another older female, which associate regularly and closely with one another over time. |
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| Surrounded by her family, she opens the floodgates of memory, and gradually, thanks to a skillfully woven narrative, the image of the matriarch that she has become is superimposed upon that of the young exiled girl. |
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| A wry spinster, a sonorous priest, a reformed party girl, and a cantankerous Cape Breton matriarch, are all witnesses to a twenty-year interrupted love story. |
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| Their mothers or a matriarch shave the men and smear them with red ochre. |
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| In the latter, she was the matriarch who is seen briefly at the beginning, sobbing while listening to the radio news about the riots in Paris in May 1968, but is soon revealed to be busy cutting onions. |
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| The book's thrust is that the prime minister abdicated power to Sonia Gandhi, matriarch of the family that has the Congress party at its beck and call. |
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| Mr Douglas-Hamilton's researchers were able to observe the reaction of other elephants to the death of Eleanor, the matriarch of a group called the First Ladies. |
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| Forming deep family bonds, elephants live in tight social units, which typically include an older matriarch and three or four of her offspring and their young. |
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| Known as Bedford's matriarch, Marion Christie was a wonderful volunteer who made a lasting impact on her community through a lifetime of dedicated involvement. |
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| Her photographs of the matriarch Hirbaiben Lobi, a young bride on her wedding night, and Anwarbhai, the bank teller with an eyepatch, are singular and thought provoking. |
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| At the tender age of 89, the matriarch of this teaching family, Angagh MacKellar, decided it was time to dust off her pencil box and make a comeback. |
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| In January 2008, in Anchorage, Alaska, friends and relatives gathered to bid their last farewell to 89 year old Marie Smith Jones, a beloved matriarch of her community. |
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