critiques
Example Sentences
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Molinistas fancied themselves pragmatic do-gooders who weren’t above shopping at Ross Dress for Less and believed in people power above caciques — larger-than-life leaders.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2024
"We women don't want to overrule the caciques, but we do want to stand alongside them, deciding with them; our role as women is not to divide the community, but to bring everyone together."
From BBC • Apr. 24, 2023
Lavish playgrounds for international jet-setters exist almost side by side with villages still run by caciques, or chieftains, who seem to belong to the last century.
From Time Magazine Archive
They have the respect of the people, and if local caciques cut up too roughly, the Army simply moves in and starts things running right again.
From Time Magazine Archive
This failure had determined Zemaco to form the conspiracy with the other caciques, and to this scheme he was devoting all his energies.
From Vasco Nu?ez de Balboa by Ober, Frederick Albion
