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They it was who by universal prescription commanded three of the Pequod's boats as headsmen. In that grand order of battle in which Captain Ahab would probably marshal his forces to descend on the whales, these three headsmen were as captains of companies.

A Twitter user shared, "Even Messi or Fulani Headsmen cannot take this football from this cow.

In fact, the worse of it all was the recent attacks of communities around them by Fulani headsmen, which has forced many residents to relocated to cities like Doma and Lafia.

A determining factor in the choice of King and Marksman as headsmen was the looming threat of Ojibwe removal from their ancestral homes to lands west of the Mississippi River, which became the policy of the U.S.

As pertinently noted in a valuable monograph on the state of the Romanian nation in Transylvania during the 1848 Revolution (a statement that has, in any case, a higher degree of validity for the modern period), "starting at the top level of the elite, where the arch-hierarchs of the two denominations, Andrei Caguna and loan Lemeni, activated, and going all the way to the level of the masses, where the priests acted not only as spiritual leaders but also as the political and military headsmen of their communities, the Romanian nation manifested, during those years, in the spirit of a genuine unity in diversity, the foundation of diversity being ensured by its confessional component." (3)

(37) Nonetheless, ideas of pollution arose earlier, for twelfth-century headsmen often were obliged to perform penance after executions, until Pope Innocent III banned this practice.

NORTHERN CYPRUS LEADER AKINCI/MEETING: Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus President Mustafa Akyncy will hold a meeting with village headsmen to inform them on the latest Cyprus talks.

Starbuck, Stubb and Flask--"three eminently practical mates" together with Ahab, the "maniac captain of the soul," symbolizing "America" (Lawrence 2008: 123)--are, according to Ishmael, the "headsmen" of the Pequod, the ship officers resembling "Gothic knights on a quest." (cf.