Tupua Tamasese Efi said the chiefs and traditional orators - "matai" - of his village had stripped him of the ancient kingly title of "Tui Atua", and banished him along with his extended family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference

Cultural studies with matai (Chinese water chestnut).    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 13] Reference

Sa caparito hohocom sa nabubuhai, at sa nanga matai na tauo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doctrina Christiana The first book printed in the Philippines, Manila, 1593.] Reference

Ipanalangin sa dios ang nabubuhai at ang nanga matai na christiano.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doctrina Christiana The first book printed in the Philippines, Manila, 1593.] Reference

The introduction into the United States and the culture of Eleocharis dulcis, the matai of China.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 13] Reference

S. dile ma matai ang caloloua natin para nang sa haiop, ang catauan la mang mamatai, ang caloloua mabubuhai magparating man saan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doctrina Christiana The first book printed in the Philippines, Manila, 1593.] Reference

The uniform canopy is dominated by broadleaf species, mainly kamahi (Weinmannia racemosa) and tawa (Beilschmiedia tawa), with some emergent podocarps (e.g., rimu and matai).    From Wordnik.com.  [Northland temperate forests] Reference

Toleafoa is a Samoan matai chiefly title bestowed upon his eminence by the local authorities, presumably for helping them build a stadium without sinking them into a huge pile of debt a la South Africa 2010.    From Wordnik.com.  [Which stadiums are home to the most champions?] Reference

The foothills from north to south were covered in beech forest (Nothofagus spp.), while the plains were covered with mixed beech-podocarp forest dominated by matai (Prumnoptitys taxifolia) and totara (Podocarpus totara).    From Wordnik.com.  [Cantebury-Otago tussock grasslands] Reference

Legislative Assembly (Fono): elections last held 5 April 1991 (next to be held 26 April 1996); results - percent of vote by party NA; seats - (47 total) HRPP 28, SNDP 18, independents 1 note: only matai (head of family) are able to run for the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1996 CIA Factbook] Reference

Malifa, editor of the Samoan Observer newspaper in Apia and himself a matai.    From Wordnik.com.  [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference

The matai does not want his village's reputation tarnished by a delinquent borrower.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kiva Loans] Reference

Every leader, every member of Parliament, has to have a matai title,'' said Savea Sano.    From Wordnik.com.  [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference

But the system is not hereditary: "Everyone in Samoa is entitled to become a matai," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference

A Samoan man said to be a matai thanked him for supporting Pacific people and he in turn thanked the crowd.    From Wordnik.com.  [Radio New Zealand News Headlines] Reference

Universal suffrage was extended in 1990, but only chiefs (matai) may stand for election to the Samoan seats.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

"The manna and the very essence of a head of state is on his qualifications as a good matai of the family and of the village," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference

The tenets of the matai system explained why I saw office workers crouch down when they spoke to a boss, keeping their heads well below his.    From Wordnik.com.  [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference

From what I'd read, Robert Louis Stevenson was a sort of freelance matai who got involved in Samoan politics and is still deeply admired for it.    From Wordnik.com.  [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference

A delegation of Samoa's top matai (chiefs) are to visit Auckland to assess the heavy financial impact cultural demands are having on their expatriate kin in New Zealand.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

These were once dominated by the major podocarp species: rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum), miro (Podocrpus ferrugineus), matai (Podocarpus spicatus), totara (Podocarpus totara), and kahikatea (Dacryacrpus dacrydioides).    From Wordnik.com.  [Northland temperate forests] Reference

A group of pines planted around the graveyard in the 1870s stand like sentries, but elsewhere the Department of Conservation is posioning and removing exotic vegetation, so that native podocarps like rimu and matai have more room to spread their branches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reading the Maps] Reference

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It is singular that while this district is the only place in New Zealand where the kauri-trees are found, nearly every other species of tree native to the country is also found here, among them the rimu, the matai, the white pine, the tooth-leaved beech, and the totara, all in close proximity to the kauri.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands] Reference

(47 total) HRPP 28, SNDP 18, independents 1 note: only matai (head of family) are able to run for the Legislative.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1995 CIA World Factbook] Reference

I te rau Ti i te hauti raa mai te hauti ie te matai rahi ra, te o reira te raoere Ti e ofati mai, e tau mau rauti ra te afai hia i te mahana e haere ai te taata na roto i taua umu ra e i te hora maha i te popoi na e tutui hia'i taua umu ra.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mystic Isles of the South Seas.] Reference

21 years of age; universal, but only matai (head of family) are able to run for the Legislative Assembly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1994 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Curzon, matai SSP 50.78 9.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vail Daily - Top Stories] Reference

At mabubuhai na maguli ang na nga matai na tauo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doctrina Christiana The first book printed in the Philippines, Manila, 1593.] Reference

(matai) may stand for election to the Fono; members serve five-year terms) elections: last held 4 March 2001 (next to be held by March 2006) election results: percent of vote by party - NA\%; seats by party.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2001 CIA World Factbook] Reference

(matai) may stand for election to the Fono; members serve five-year terms) elections: last held 26 April 1996 (next to be held by NA April 2001) election results: percent of vote by party -- HRPP 45. 17\%, SNDP 27. 1\%, independents 23. 7\%; seats by party -- HRPP 25, SNDP 13, independents 11.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference

Teva te matai!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ballads] Reference

I don't need any more trouble from your matai. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]