headman
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The most endearing among them is Ismail Altıntoprak, the muhtar, or elected headman, of Karagümrük.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
Heimonmi Shylla, headman of the hamlet with about 500 households and a deacon, says almost all residents are Presbyterian, Catholic or members of the Church of God.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 17, 2024
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
The headman had feared that the old man would say something like this.
From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith
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
