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  • She says the Zetas have a chief of press and even a sub-chief of press who keep tabs on what the local media is reporting.

    Mexico's Drug Cartels Use Force To Silence Media 2010

  • Note 59: The third colonial sub-chief under Xikwembu, Daniel or Xikon'wana, is not mentioned in any of the traditions I have seen or heard.

    Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

  • She is now decidedly better and quite sensible, and her husband, the sub-chief, is much delighted.

    Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

  • After breakfast he took me to the lodge of the sub-chief, the largest in the village, 45 feet square, and into about twenty others all constructed in the same way, but some of them were not more than 20 feet square.

    Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

  • The sub-chief drew back the sliding doors, and all bowed with much reverence, It was a simple shrine of unlacquered wood, with a broad shelf at the back, on which there was a small shrine containing a figure of the historical hero Yoshitsune, in a suit of inlaid brass armour, some metal gohei, a pair of tarnished brass candle-sticks, and a coloured Chinese picture representing a junk.

    Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

  • Shinondi returned, and soon people began to drop in, till eighteen were assembled, including the sub-chief and several very grand-looking old men, with full, grey, wavy beards.

    Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

  • The sub-chief lived in fine style: the staircase was lit by a lamp; his apartment being on the second floor.

    The Cloak 2003

  • Akakiy Akakievitch at length reached the house in which the sub-chief lodged.

    The Cloak 2003

  • The officials naturally at once offered the sub-chief their congratulations and accepted the invitations with pleasure.

    The Cloak 2003

  • At length one of the officials, a sub-chief probably, in order to show that he was not at all proud, and on good terms with his inferiors, said, “So be it, only I will give the party instead of Akakiy Akakievitch; I invite you all to tea with me to-night; it happens quite a propos, as it is my name-day.”

    The Cloak 2003

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