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In response, three tribes led by the Lakota chief Red Cloud attacked and defeated the US army, many times over.
1877: The great Lakota warrior and chief named Crazy Horse surrendered at Fort Robinson.
He asked Octavio to be his chief of staff.
And I look back to those early days when I had the lofty title, I still have, of chief exec, but in the early days, I was chief exec of myself.
Vannevar Bush was the U.S. government's chief scientific adviser during the war.
I was offered a position as associate professor of medicine and chief of scientific visualization at Yale University in the department of medicine.
Finally, my chief of staff says, "That is a great idea."
Our chief technology officer is an English major, and he was a bike messenger in Manhattan.
As a matter fact my division chief says a lot, "You have a green university."
And two days later I came to do my next emergency shift, and that's when my chief asked to speak to me quietly in her office.
On my show, on "White Coat, Black Art," I made it a habit of saying, "Here's my worst mistake," I would say to everybody from paramedics to the chief of cardiac surgery, "Here's my worst mistake," blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, "What about yours?" and I would point the microphone towards them.
He was the chief of anesthesiology in a hospital in Malawi, a teaching hospital.
Maybe he'll badmouth his chief rival to the coach.
Two months later, I go to another village on the same assignment and they asked me to live with the village chief.
The women's chief of the village has this little girl, fair color like me, totally dirty.
A time for plotting to whack the chief of police, like in this classic scene from "The Godfather."
In the past, I've been a race car owner, a crew chief and a driving coach, although maybe not at the level that you're currently expecting.
The richest people in Africa are heads-of-state and ministers, and quite often the chief bandit is the head-of-state himself.
In Ashanti tradition, for example, the chief cannot make any decision without the concurrence of the council of elders.
Without the council the chief can't pass any law, and if the chief doesn't govern according to the will of the people he will be removed.
If not, the people will abandon the chief, go somewhere else and set up a new settlement.
When they make a profit it is theirs to keep, not for the chief to sequester it from them.
We call that the control role, to control fights in the group, and the second is to be the most empathic, the consoler in chief, basically, of the nation, so to speak.
And so that's the data on alpha males being the consoler in chief, basically.
Aristotle called happiness "the chief good," the end towards which all other things aim.
Because I'm not in charge of anything, and you could be the editor in chief of American Vogue or the CEO of H&M, or the next Steven Meisel.
And in the village also, there is one chief, an elder, who if he says yes, everybody will follow him.
The chief policy man took this idea to Capitol Hill, and as he reported back to me, the response was, "Hell no!
Over time, the good ones move beyond the four base levels to the fuju [deputy bureau chief] and ju [bureau chief] levels.
So we sent an undercover investigator in to secretly film meetings with members of the ruling elite, and the resulting footage, well, it made some people very angry, and you can see that on YouTube, but it proved what we had long suspected, because it showed how the state's chief minister, despite his later denials, used his control over land and forest licenses to enrich himself and his family.
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