Sentence examples of "headman" in English

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My father bought this lodge at a bargain from the village headman, Mr. Park. Мой отец купил этот домик по сходной цене через мистера Парка, главы в той деревне.
In Hearn’s novel, Gohē, a village headman who lives atop a hill in his village, notices an approaching tsunami wave when he sees seawater being drawn out rapidly from the shore. В романе Херна, Гохо, глава деревни, живший на вершине холма в своей деревне, заметил надвигающуюся волну цунами, когда он увидел, как стремительно отступает в океан вода с побережья.
Even Egypt, with its highly centralized and bureaucratized state, has devolved certain policing and security functions in marginalized urban communities or rural areas to baltagiyyeh (thugs) and to former henchmen of the ruling party, village headmen, and clan elders. Даже Египет со своим крайне централизованным и бюрократическим государством делегировал часть правоохранительных функций в маргинальных городках и сельских районах гангстерам (baltagiyyeh), а также бывшим ставленникам правящей партии, главам деревень и старейшинам кланов.
The election of the village headman had been postponed. Выборы старейшины деревни были отложены.
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