1.   Sure enough, the village chief wanted to trade for the sorrel and was quite pleased with his trade.

2.   Already in some places, the introduction of direct elections for village chief is causing democracy to percolate into party organs too.

3.   And Summers would become a village chief.

4.   Abiding by the local custom, Summers presented the village chief with two bottles of liquor.

5.   But Amidullah, the village chief, said his villagers have nothing to return to in the Shomali Valley.

6.   But the government has no interest in imposing them on unwilling families, antagonizing village chiefs and family elders who are pillars of society and guardians of tradition.

7.   Consider another story Beckwith tells about a Ghanaian village chief who spent nine days building up a celebration by giving Beckwith and Fisher colorful details.

8.   During the Khmer Rouge years, he was the village chief in the adjacent hamlet of Domre Slap.

9.   Even the village chiefs of the three small communities that received rice Sunday were surprised to learn that the donors were Chinese.

10.   Even when the money is available, Edungbola said, it often goes to projects that provide more status to the village chiefs or officials.