“Despite having no formal training, she displayed great chiefery in effectively guiding her team towards success.”

“These villages are located two or three kilometers from each chiefery or mission post.”

“After dinner at the chiefery we assembled on the courtyard veranda to hear the singing of the Papara himeme chorus.”

“The village chief says he would not give up any of his six children but says others believe they are doing their sons or daughters a favor.”

“The national chief confirmed that his organization is still not sure what its final budget for this year will be.”

“It bears the chief of the weight and burden.”

“All the territory of an administrative chiefdom is technically held by the paramount chief.”

“Within the area of his chiefdom, which extends far beyond the village, live 6,800 people.”

“Chief Madzimawi of the Ngoni people in Chipata has appealed to the New Deal Government to provide clean and safe drinking water in his chiefdom.”

“They intimated to him that in all probability he would soon be elevated to the chieftainship.”

“No wonder the Indian that slew him was a brave and in the line of chieftainship!”

“She recognized his claims to the chieftainship, thus throwing over a kinsman, Brian O'Neill.”

“The silent and robust young man riding the horse that drew her kibitka was the chieftain of his tribe.”

“Probably first built in the late Bronze Age, about 3,000 years ago, it is likely to have been reoccupied by a Pictish chieftain.”

“Armed to the teeth and clad in kilt, tartan hose and bonnet, he looks every inch the clan chieftain.”

“One of the first high schools at Tsheseng has been named after the Batlokwa chieftainess, Manthatisi.”

“Works are all set to commence shortly, for setting up a bridge across the Kafue River in Chieftainess Chiawa's area in Chirundu.”

“The eruption threatened to destroy the town of Hilo until a royal Hawaiian chiefess visited the active flow and interceded with Pele to spare the city.”

“She then ordered the new chief, Liholiho, to join her and his mother, the sacred chiefess Kapi'olani, in disbanding the existent Maoli religious system.”

“For the poor natives left behind, it's an uncertain time, filled with marauding Saxons and power struggles among local chieftains.”

“I spent a few minutes in the abbey museum, admiring high-relief tomb carvings of bygone Scots kings and chieftains in full battle gear.”

“Each spring, corporate America's preeminent chieftains offer sage counsel to eager university graduates across the nation.”

“The population, divided into a dozen chiefdoms and supported by intensive agriculture, soon rose to 15,000 or more.”

“However, during the late 1800s, British troops invaded Zulu territory and divided the Zulu land into thirteen chiefdoms.”

“How do we expect development to take place in such chiefdoms?”

“All three armed services sent detachments, bands and chiefs of staff, who were accompanied by police and relatives.”

“Police chiefs said closing the unit would save taxpayers tens of thousands of pounds.”

“But backwoodsmen were better at dealing with rebellious Indian chiefs than perfumed dandies were.”