How To Use Bailiwick In A Sentence
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With very few exceptions, they easily agreed that what was going on in their bailiwicks was incomparable and required a different approach.
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Will decentralization really bring politics closer to the people, or will we be returning to a bunch of little bailiwicks?
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Thus, it doesn't really monkey with the states' authority after all; it only makes sure they stay in their traditional bailiwick.
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And she's looking at a couple of other projects, but that's kind of out of my bailiwick, if you will.
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As Jim has mentioned, my bailiwick is law firm libraries, as opposed to academic libraries.
Archive 2005-10-01
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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"
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The term bailiwick dates to the mid-15th century and originally meant the district under a bailiffs jurisdiction.
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However, he said decisions about moves into Japan are not within Mr. Jacobs '"bailiwick," indicating the direction of regional development will be led by Las Vegas Sands management, rather than the Macau-based Mr. Jacobs.
Sands China Ousts CEO
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Education is going to be your bailiwick for us, and then we're going to ask about that and a lot of other things.
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In the bailiwick of Guernsey the Bailiff's duties are at least as multitudinous: possibly more so, as his jurisdiction covers several islands.
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Their organization was strictly hierarchical, into priorates, then bailiwicks and lastly commanderies.
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Whether we like it or not, computers are part of modern life. Learning about them is no longer the bailiwick of geeks with horn-rimmed glasses and pocket pen holders.
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Huguenots the free exercise of their religion only in the suburbs of one town in each bailiwick (bailliage), and in those places where it had been practised before the outbreak of hostilities and which they occupied at the current date.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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Also in my bailiwick was the International Court of Justice, the judicial arm of the United Nations, housed in the Carnegie-endowed Peace Palace.
Staying Tuned
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An inferior court known as the bailiwick tried ordinary civil suits and breaches of the peace.
The Great Fortress : A chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760
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And I think I'm probably taking you outside a little bit of your bailiwick, which is intelligence.
CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2004
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In the worst sense, he was a monomaniacal martinet whose focus on his bailiwick to the exclusion of everything else is phenomenal.
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Amboise (19 March, 1563), which left the Huguenots freedom of worship in one town out of each bailiwick (bailliage) and in the castles of lords who exercised the power of life and death (haute justice).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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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"
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In 1725 the Auditor of Land Revenue suggested that a bailiff be appointed for the bailiwick to collect rents.
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Here her analysis is most surefooted as she discusses late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century fiction, Benedict's professional bailiwick.
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Jersey is a Bailiwick, and the Bailiff is the civic head of the Island.
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The queen appoints a lieutenant-governor as her representative in the two bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey.
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They are still causing mayhem in their southern bailiwick.
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What I'm trying to say is, your basic religion doesn't seem to make much of a difference to your belief (or lack of it) in the things that are more in my bailiwick, which is any kind of contact with the dead.
Grave Surprise
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I had the impression that artificial intelligence was sort of your bailiwick.
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