How To Use fief In A Sentence
- Of course, you would expect it to be damp in those parts of the Highlands which the Camanachd Association holds as its fiefdom and indeed shinty has suffered in recent weeks with matches being cancelled due to unplayable pitches.
- During the Eastern Zhou royal power declined and there was a concomitant growth in the feudal fiefs, some becoming quasi-independent kingdoms.
- Large incomes were required before titles were awarded, but fiefs and landgrants were carved out of conquered territories in order to endow the new titles.
- The alpha males (I guess) feel obliged to rear up periodically and assert their fiefdom with a ‘roar.’
- Ruling the country as his own personal fiefdom, he has imposed placemen in key positions of power and dictated policy. Times, Sunday Times
- In general, factions within the parties control the branches and manoeuvre for control of seats or regions which then become their fiefdoms - new members which they do not control are a threat.
- Mayor Daley thinks that his fiefdom is exempt from the Founding documents. Supreme Court Sets Date For Landmark Gun-Rights Case
- Henry renounced lay investiture, but prelates were to continue to do homage for their fiefs.
- And they just feel, really, there has been one set of laws for people who are running companies and treating them like private fiefdoms and another set of laws for everybody else.
- That he runs United like his own personal fiefdom? Times, Sunday Times