Without saying or seeming to say that in portraying the Sartoris and the Compson families Faulkner's chief concern is social criticism, we can say nevertheless that through those families he dramatizes his comment on the planter dynasties as they have existed since the decades before the Civil War.

The Levites are divided into three families, the Gershonites, the Kohathites, and the Merarites, each under a chief, and all headed by one prince, Eleazar, son of Aaron.

The Bunge, Born, Hirsch, Engels and De La Tour families remained the company's chief stock-holders, and by extension, leaders in the domestic textile, paint, chemical, fertilizer, and food processing industries.

The word caddie comes from the gascon Occitan capdèth or capdet, meaning chief then younger boy ( became cadet in French and refers to the Cadets de Gascogne: the captains serving in the French army in the 15th century who were the youngest sons of the aristocratic families of Gascony ).

Franconia, like Alamannia was fairly fragmented and the duke ´ s position was often disputed between the chief families.

To make sure that the people supervise each other in implementing the new system, he divides the population into groups, with five families constituting a neighborhood ( Jin ), five neighborhoods a village ( Ji ), and five villages an association ( tang ) headed by a chief ( chang ).

The tribe was governed by a council of sacred clan chiefs, a war chief, the head of families, and the warriors.

When a man died in ancient Greece, his wife cut off her hair and buried it with him, and in Hindu families, the chief mourner is expected to shave his or her head 10 days after a death.

Although the provincial chief expressed sorrow for the killings and offered to compensate the victims ’ families, they resolutely denied that government forces were responsible for the killings and blamed the Viet Cong.

The chief magistracies of the state had become almost the patrimony of a few distinguished families, whose wealth was correspondent with their upper-class birth.

The O ' Briens subsequently ranked as one of the chief dynastic families of the country ( see Chiefs of the Name ).

The DNA from the two families did not match, and so the study concluded that the famous Shawnee war chief was in fact a Native American and that the popular story surrounding his relatedness to Dutch settlers is without merit.

From 1933 to 1980, the office of Webster Parish sheriff, who also holds the title of chief parish tax collector, was filled by only three persons, all Democrats, from two political families.

In 1792 the chief of the Cayugas and about 20 other families rebuilt the town.

Some of its most famous people are former Mayor Burl Laxton, Former Police chief Franklin Church, Al Carolla, Bradley Gregory, Eddie Payne, Davis and Dawson families.

* Andrei Tupolev, the chief designer of the aircraft families Tu and ANT.

* Vladimir Petlyakov, the chief designer of the aircraft families Pe and VI ( The Petlyakov aircraft ).

For the children of the chief native families he provided a school at Osca ( Huesca ), where they received a Roman education and even adopted the dress and education of Roman youths, following the Roman practice of taking hostages.

The chief of the Cocom family, a rich and ancient lineage that had taken part in the revolt against Chichen, was chosen to be king, but all the other noble families and regional lords were to send members of their families to Mayapan to play parts in the government.

* Enmat (, ) is " mo " or taboo, birthplace of the irooj ( chiefly families ) and off-limits to anyone without the blessing of the Iroijlaplap ( paramount chief ).

On May 19, 1834, the clans, led by Qasim al-Ahmad — the chief of nahiya Jamma ' in — initiated a Palestinian Arab revolt when he notified Egyptian officials that Palestinian families would no longer supply the Egyptian army with troops.

The chief question is whether, with the breaking down of trade barriers in the international economy, while this can benefit consumers it can also make the ability of multinational companies to bargain down wage costs even greater, in wealthier Western countries and developing nations alike.

In Scotland, the Enlightenment was characterised by a thoroughgoing empiricism and practicality where the chief virtues were held to be improvement, virtue and practical benefit for both the individual and society as a whole.

The chief difference between the Fyodorean and the later Petrine reforms was that while the former were primarily, though not exclusively, for the benefit of the church, the latter were primarily for the benefit of the state.

Thus during the second half of the 15th century the chief taxes, the taille, aids and gabelle became definitely permanent for the benefit of the Crown, sometimes by the formal consent of the Estates-General, as in 1437 in the case of the aids.

Michael Hess, chief of the Civil Division of the United States Attorneys Office, argued " serious injuries are being inflicted on our foreign relations, to the benefit of other nations opposed to our foreign relations, to the benefit of other nations opposed to our form of government.

Returning to the West Coast, he prepared illustrations of the chief engineer's plans for the Golden Gate Bridge for the benefit of funders.

Opponents of Mississauga's position, including Brampton mayor Susan Fennell, have argued that from the 1970s through the 1990s, Mississauga was the chief beneficiary of Peel's infrastructure construction projects — funded by taxpayers in all three municipalities — and it is now Brampton's turn to benefit, as it is growing faster than Mississauga, which is mostly built-out.

In 81 BC, after a major debate between proponents ( the chief among whom was vice prime minister Sang Hongyang ( 桑弘羊 )) and opponents of the state monopolies on salt, iron, and wine, the wine and iron monopolies were abolished, once again allowing the merchants to benefit from the profits of these essentials.

But he gave up his administrative position as chief engineer to focus on inventions that could benefit the telegraph industry.

Ruffley has stood up to bankers appearing before the select committee, including pursuing Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond in January 2011 on whether he was ' grateful to the British taxpayer ' for the estimated £ 100bn of benefit of the bank bailouts to the wider banking system.

A series of classified Home Office directives defined for the benefit of chief constables what constituted good reason to grant a certificate.

The chief benefit of a turbocharger is that it consumes less power from the engine than a supercharger ; the main drawback is that engine response suffers greatly because it takes time for the turbocharger to come up to speed ( spool up ).

In 2001 Mark Wood ( Financial Figure ) moved from AXA to join Prudential to become its UK and European Chief Executive until 2005, when he founded and became chief executive of Paternoster ; a regulated insurance company that takes on the risks associated with companies ’ final salary / defined benefit pension schemes.

He wrote to Henry Grattan on 23 August: " The chief object of my attempts will be, to purify, as far as circumstances and prudence will permit, the principles of government, in the hopes of thereby restoring to it that tone and spirit which so happily prevailed formerly, and so much to the dignity as well as the benefit of the country ".

Still, the ultimate fate of the wealth thus acquired shows that, in the last resort, the state obtained the chief benefit.

It was announced that a benefit match for Keith Alexander would take place on 3 May 2010 at Sincil Bank, as a tribute to the ex-Imps chief.

The funds raised were a great benefit to hospitals, and the annual drive became an institution, one of the chief attractions of London ’ s summer, with Alexandra the star.

Because of the communal tasks taken up by most other editors the work of chief editor in practice fell to Pierre Denis who set the tone with accent on the Proudhonian ideology, whose tendencies he represented in the First International of which he was a member: recognition of individual liberties, suppression of the permanent army and police, " Laïcité " and free education, entire benefit of work produced, autonomy of the commune-or Voluntary association, autonomy, federation, union.

-- Acting hastily under White House pressure, the Senate tonight confirmed Robert C. Weaver as the nation's federal housing chief.

In the time of Augustus, who considered himself under the special protection of Apollo and was even said to be his son, his worship developed and he became one of the chief gods of Rome.

In process of time the title abbot was extended to clerics who had no connection with the monastic system, as to the principal of a body of parochial clergy ; and under the Carolingians to the chief chaplain of the king,, or military chaplain of the emperor, It even came to be adopted by purely secular officials.

Twice in the year the superiors of the several coenobia met at the chief monastery, under the presidency of an archimandrite (" the chief of the fold ," from miandra, a sheepfold ), and at the last meeting gave in reports of their administration for the year.

It was then that he began to study the principles of law and administration under Konstantin Pobedonostsev, then a professor of civil law at Moscow State University and later ( from 1880 ) chief procurator of the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church in Russia.

Between 1861 and 1871, the Tanzimat reforms which began during the reign of his brother Abdülmecid I were continued under the leadership of his chief ministers, Keçecizade Mehmet Fuat Pasha and Mehmed Emin Aali Pasha.

Herald-Traveler Corp. operated for years under temporary authority from the Federal Communications Commission stemming from controversy over luncheon meetings the newspaper's chief executive had with an FCC commissioner during the original licensing process ( Some Boston broadcast historians accuse the Boston Globe of being covertly behind the proceeding.

Though the article was signed pseudonymously by " X ," it was well known at the time that the true author was George F. Kennan, the deputy chief of mission of the United States to the Soviet Union from 1944 to 1946, under ambassador W. Averell Harriman.

The rebel Croatian Serbs established a number of paramilitary militias under the leadership of Milan Martić, the police chief in Knin.

He served in the revolutionary forces, leading a regiment in Shanghai under his friend and mentor, Chen Qimei, as one of Chen's chief lieutenants.

The Commons on 12 October 1659, cashiered General John Lambert and other officers, and installed Fleetwood as chief of a military council under the authority of the speaker.

The University was then the chief seat of Scholastic learning, but already coming under the influence of Renaissance humanism.

His chief activity, however, centred on the elaboration of his Comparative Grammar, which appeared in six parts at considerable intervals ( Berlin, 1833, 1835, 1842, 1847, 1849, 1852 ), under the title Vergleichende Grammatik des Sanskrit, Zend, Griechischen, Lateinischen, Litthauischen, Altslawischen, Gotischen und Deutschen ( Comparative Grammar of Sanskrit, Zend ( Avestan ), Greek, Latin, Lithuanian, Old Slavonic, Gothic and German ).

* 1704 1 August ( NS ): ( 21 July ( OS )) – During the War of the Spanish Succession, and when returning from a failed expedition to Barcelona, an Anglo-Dutch fleet, under the command of Sir George Rooke, chief commander of the Alliance Navy, began a new siege ( the eleventh siege of the town ).

A brigade of Dutch Royal Marines and Royal Marines, 1, 800 strong, under the command of Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt, chief commander of the Alliance Army in Spain, began to besiege Gibraltar, in the name of the Archduke Charles.

After Army chief of staff General Antonio Indjai was reported to have been arrested under the orders of navy chief Rear Admiral Jose Americo Bubo Na Tchuto, his troops freed him while Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Júnior went to seek asylum at the Angolan embassy.

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, following the French Revolution of 1789, a hugely influential grimoire was published under the title of the Grand Grimoire, which was considered particularly powerful because it involved conjuring and making a pact with the Devil's chief minister, Lucifugé Rofocale, in order to gain wealth from him.

She then becomes the chief representative for the Foundation ( at first as a figurehead, but gradually gaining more and more power ) under the title " Queen of the World ".

The SiPo was placed under the direct command of Reinhard Heydrich who was already chief of the Nazi Party's intelligence service, the Sicherheitsdienst ( SD ).

After the merger, with all operations under the management of Sir George Simpson ( 1826 – 1860 ), the company had a corps of commissioned officers, 25 chief factors and 28 chief traders, who shared in the profits of the company during the monopoly years.