chieftain

Example Sentences

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The disconnect between slackening activity and the increasing yield has mystified even oil chieftains.

From The Wall Street Journal

He became so indispensable to Bernanke as a go-between with Wall Street chieftains and GOP leaders that Fed staffers developed a familiar refrain: “Have you run it by Warsh?”

From The Wall Street Journal

Zero rates took the pressure off corporate chieftains to restructure, innovate, and take risks, as Japan Inc. did before QE arrived.

From Barron's

Zero rates took the pressure off corporate chieftains to restructure, innovate, and take risks, as Japan Inc. did before QE arrived.

From Barron's

All of this—the building, the branding, the energy evident in the city and its corporate chieftains—caught the eye of a young artist who had recently moved to New York.

From The Wall Street Journal