Chieftain example sentences

At other times they were attempts by powerful chieftains to consolidate their own positions.These new peasant groups gradually began to be influenced by regional markets, chieftains, priests, monasteries and temples.The term included not just rulers and chieftains but also soldiers and commanders who served in the armies of different monarchs all over the subcontinent.The Mughal emperors after Aurangzeb were unable to arrest the gradual shifting of political and economic authority into the hands of provincial governors, local chieftains and other groups.Most smaller rulers and chieftains controlled different territories on behalf of the Mughal ruler.The chieftain was a benevolent old man; his attendant … a youth who … spoke Russian … He had heard of the Revolution, which had overthrown the Tsar and driven away the Generals who conquered the homeland of the Kirgiz.