headman
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In 2016, a village headman who also doubled up as a driver, was taking around a team of University of Kerala archaeology students when he showed them the site.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2023
Saltwater had destroyed the ability of the 150 residents to grow crops, taking away livelihoods and food security, says former village headman Sailosi Ramatu.
From Reuters ● Aug. 2, 2022
One of the members, Ram Prasad, a former village headman from an upper caste, said the initiative would break the taboo associated with the act.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 21, 2022
The headman was a strikingly handsome, muscular man, wearing a beaded antelope hide tied over one shoulder, a pair of denim shorts and tire-tread sandals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2018
Next the Long Knife headman insisted that the man who had killed the cow be put in jail.
From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III
As Hinfelaar writes, however, some chiefs and village headmen profit from selling land used by the community to international investors, “and fomenting social disruption in the villages facilitates such transactions.”
From Scientific American ● May 31, 2023
Murmu’s father and her grandfather were village headmen in Baidaposi in Mayurbhanj district in Odisha.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 22, 2022
Local ardos, or Fulani traditional headmen, complained that police don’t take cases they file seriously.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 2018
The two headmen sat down on a rope cot, exchanging compliments.
From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2016
Chief Wimbe was out of town, so his messenger and bodyguard Mister Ngwata came to the house, along with other village headmen.
From "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" by William Kamkwamba
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