bailiwick

How To Use bailiwick In A Sentence

• With very few exceptions, they easily agreed that what was going on in their bailiwicks was incomparable and required a different approach.
• Will decentralization really bring politics closer to the people, or will we be returning to a bunch of little bailiwicks?
• Thus, it doesn't really monkey with the states' authority after all; it only makes sure they stay in their traditional bailiwick.
• And she's looking at a couple of other projects, but that's kind of out of my bailiwick, if you will.
• As Jim has mentioned, my bailiwick is law firm libraries, as opposed to academic libraries. Archive 2005-10-01
• The county within which the sheriff exercises his jurisdiction is still called his bailiwick, while the term bailiff is retained as a title by the chief magistrates of various towns and the keepers of royal castles, as the high bailiff of Westminster, the bailiff of Dover Castle, &c. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
• Setting up the system, providing instruction manuals and pint-sized passbooks, teaching banks how to market and manipulate - these were the bailiwick of the young brothers Stout.
• It was the signal for us to assemble in his bailiwick, where we would find a waiting cornucopia of edibles: apples, oranges, candy, dried fruits, nuts, cookies, soft drinks.
• And it has done so even in areas where the crime at issue seems to be a crime that falls squarely into the state's bailiwick - and does not affect federal interests at all.
• The term bailiwick dates to the mid-15th century and originally meant the district under a bailiff’s jurisdiction.