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
The village is deemed "at risk" by Fiji's government and headman Josevata Nagausaukula contemplates a future in which children now honing their rugby skills have been shifted, with their families, to higher ground inland.
From Reuters ● Jul. 25, 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
No more than half an hour later he laid his pack down beside the wooden house of the village headman and turned to salute the little crowd that had gathered.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
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
They brushed non-medical people aside, ignoring chiefs and headmen, who often felt insulted.
From Economist ● Aug. 27, 2015
I learned of these men from the chiefs and headmen who came to the Great Place to settle disputes and try cases.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
