11.   He recalls that Angelo Ponte, the family patriarch, came out to trade banter about the challenges of the trash business and proffer an after-dinner drink.

12.   In February, David Rockefeller, the family patriarch and former chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank, flew to Tokyo to urge Mitsubishi to find an alternative to bankruptcy.

13.   In Los Angeles, it stars Stacy Keach as the family patriarch and Kenneth Cranham as the ominous inspector.

14.   Local politics are still controlled by descendants by the Slovenian miners brought here over a century ago by Meyer Guggenheim, the family patriarch.

15.   Many of those turning to the markets will be family-controlled businesses looking for ways to ensure their companies survive the death of the family patriarch.

16.   Mario, the adopted son of family patriarch Karl Wallenda, was paralyzed.

17.   Now the yard is the playground of the great-grandchildren of the family patriarch, the late Joseph Kennedy Sr.

18.   On the bass is the family patriarch, Nolan Cornier, dapper in a fedora and gray moustache.

19.   Petty Enterprises is moving on after the devastating events in May and the loss of family patriarch Lee Petty in April.

20.   Playing the part of family patriarch was never his intention, however.