How To Use chieftainship In A Sentence
- It is very alarming that some Bantustan administrations have been given land for personal use under the pretext of so-called chieftainship whereas these leaders are historically and traditionally not chiefs. ANC Daily News Briefing
- It splintered into hundreds of competing chieftainships, all led by infantes claiming descent from Afonso I, all variously cooperative or mercenary, and all dependent on the slave trade for their survival.
- Thus would I attain honor and chieftainship in the final abode of the dead, and thus would honor remain to my father, who was the Otter. THE SICKNESS OF LONE CHIEF
- I has become clear that these large claims involve issues such as chieftainship disputes and territorial expansion, even attempts to establish kingdoms lost through conquest. ANC Daily News Briefing
- All the few in whom yet lingered any shadow of retainership towards the fast-fading chieftainship of Glenwarlock, seemed to cherish the notion that the heir of the house had to be tended and cared for like a child -- that was what they were in the world for. Warlock o' Glenwarlock
- The funeral feast, therefore, being a general custom throughout Scotland, was not, in the opinion of those who were to share it, unseemingly mingled, on the present occasion, with the festivities which hailed the succession to the chieftainship. The Fair Maid of Perth
- Also no chieftainship can clearly say that its lineage, either patrimonially, matrimonially or otherwise, has always had a dispute-free succession.
- The first to reach the crag was a brawny brave whose eagle feather was stained scarlet as a token of chieftainship. The Conquering Sword of Conan
- This new institution of monarchy required the invention of a new legitimation of authority beyond the tribal justification of chieftainship based on concepts of kinship and responsibility.
- And how does it differ from sovereignty or chieftainship in practical terms (other than being easier to type)?
