How To Use Fief In A Sentence
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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.
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During the Eastern Zhou royal power declined and there was a concomitant growth in the feudal fiefs, some becoming quasi-independent kingdoms.
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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.
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The alpha males (I guess) feel obliged to rear up periodically and assert their fiefdom with a ‘roar.’
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Ruling the country as his own personal fiefdom, he has imposed placemen in key positions of power and dictated policy.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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Mayor Daley thinks that his fiefdom is exempt from the Founding documents.
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Henry renounced lay investiture, but prelates were to continue to do homage for their fiefs.
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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.
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That he runs United like his own personal fiefdom?
Times, Sunday Times
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Royal finance: (1) nonfeudal revenues: Danegeld, shire farms, judicial fines; (2) the usual feudal revenues: relief (inheritance tax on great fiefs), scutage (paid in lieu of performance of knight's service).
B. The British Isles
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The great, the good and the rich rule their fiefdoms without having to put up with any impertinent interference from the people who do most of the work or buy the goods.
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In one of the picture's most satisfying scenes, one of Lord Matsudaira's lackeys arrives at the Sasahara fief with orders for Isaburo and Yogoro to commit seppuku.
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She was a Lady who was the wife of a Lord, not a Lady in her own right, of her own fief.
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Yet like other Nazi agencies, the Labour Front did provide jobs and advancement for ideologically committed workers, and it became one of the fiefdoms which undermined the old state hierarchy.
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The icon refers not to the Transylvanian terror of lore but to the 15th-century feudal lord and mass murderer Vlad the Impaler, whose fiefdom was in Wallachia, a more southern region of Romania.
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Can the county council cabinet can now treat Wiltshire like some private fiefdom?
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Regardless of their personal profile, all ministerial officials behaved in much the same way in relation to their own fiefs.
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Ersöz also told Suayip Tanış that Şırnak was his 'fief' and that he did not want HADEP there.
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Grendel this monster grim was called, march-riever {1e} mighty, in moorland living, in fen and fastness; fief of the giants the hapless wight a while had kept since the Creator his exile doomed.
Beowulf
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Originally the lands were fiefs of the Holy Roman Empire, the city municipalities owning the Emperor for their lord, and the great family of Hapsburg, in whom the Empire became at length hereditary, was in reality Swiss, the county that gave them title lying in the canton of
A Book of Golden Deeds
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He was bound to distribute the bulk of his estates in fiefs among his knights, so that a complete system of sub-infeudation was established.
The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1
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Governors in Russia wield a huge influence on votes in their fiefs, but Titov has difficulty coming second even in his home region, with a rating of 17%.
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Richard the Fearless, had built nearly a hundred years before -- new trouble threatened him, as word came that King Henry of France, the "suzerain," or overlord of Normandy, deeming his authority not sufficiently honored in his Norman fief, had invaded the boy's territories, and with a strong force was besieging the border castle of Tillieres, [H] scarce fifty miles to the south.
Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times
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At the Treaty of Paris in 1259 Henry III accepted that he held Aquitaine as a fief of the French crown and owed liege homage.
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What followed upon the loss of Communist Party and planned economy centralism was not so much ‘decentralization’, as many commentators suggested, as the formation of eighty-nine largely disconnected fiefs.
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National treasures are to be seized and granted as booty to the military commanders of Operation Iraqi ‘Freedom,’ along with large, personal fiefdoms.
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Meuse and some thirty homesteads, belonged to the lords of Bourlémont and was in the domain of the castellany of Grondrecourt, held in fief from the crown of France.
The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2
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We shall have, moreover, the same respite and in the same manner in rendering justice concerning the disafforestation or retention of those forests which Henry our father and Richard our brother afforested, and concerning wardship of lands which are of the fief of another (namely, such wardships as we have hitherto had by reason of a fief which any one held of us by knight's service), and concerning abbeys founded on other fiefs than our own, in which the lord of the fief claims to have right; and when we have returned, or if we desist from our expedition, we will immediately grant full justice to all who complain of such things.
The Magna Carta
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Our new architecture broke up those functional fiefdoms and broke down those functional walls.
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Almost 200 years ago, one of the many rebellions in central China was the product of unmarried men who formed into a 100,000-strong gang that established a fief which lasted for 17 years before it was quashed by the imperial army.
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Edward was the only one who held a key, and he had to deliver me to Liam untouched, or he would never fulfil his outrageous desire to take my fief from me.
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The Feudal System: 3. vassalage: warriors (knights) swearing an oath to their lord land itself was called the "fief":
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Our new architecture broke up those functional fiefdoms and broke down those functional walls.
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We have handed over governance of this country to the private fiefdoms of the unions, the lawyers and the lobbyists.
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In retaliation, Teresa tried to lay claim to the Barberini fiefs in the Kingdom of Naples, but she did not pursue this very far.
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Scotland is what Germans call Amigoland the kind of fiefdom the CSU has made Bavaria by hook and by crook
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The quest for total knowledge, along with his own revolutionary credentials, enabled him to outmanoeuvre colleagues who wanted to preserve their own fiefdoms within the leadership.
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The reward for his family was ennoblement and the right to exploit the canal as a fief with rights of seigneurial jurisdiction.
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I love my people, the people of my fief, the fief that has been mine since the death of my mother.
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Re: reforming & consolidating N.O.'s 7 wasteful assessorship fiefdoms:
Your Right Hand Thief
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Since returning from his Easter break in Florida he has bungled and backtracked even in his fief, the Senate.
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The family ran it as their personal fiefdom, and a degree of deference lingers.
Times, Sunday Times
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They have gathered up our democratic powers piece by piece, taking these powers into their own private fiefdoms.
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Scots nobles lost their English fiefs; after 1380 the Scots pound floated free of the English pound.
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It's currently set at £8.30 an hour, and paid by the likes of KPMG and Barclays; even at the mayor's own fiefdom, the Greater London Authority.
Hugh Muir's diary
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So at the instruction of Mandela and his charitable fiefs, MacRobert is going after ersatz Mandelas with a vengeance.
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He kept using the word "cohesion" in speaking about how the party must be reorganized, arguing there are too many separate fiefdoms at present.
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She was the sole heiress to a huge complex of imperial fiefs and lands in Tuscany, Emilia and Lombardy.
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He wrote many books, commanding a swathe of medieval history as if it had been a personal fiefdom.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their fleets were their satrap, their feudal fiefdom, and the crews were their serfs.
SAN ANDREAS
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Like a frush!) to keep her flouncies off the grass while paying the wetmenots a musichall visit and pair her fiefighs fore him with just one curl after the cad came back which we fought he wars a gunner and his corkiness lay up two bottles of joy with a shandy had by Fred and a fino oloroso which he was warming to, my right, Jimmy, my old brown freer? —
Finnegans Wake
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He gave fiefs to Norman lords, trying to keep the Saxon barons from becoming too strong.
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After complicated manoeuvring on both sides, in 1202 King Philip announced that John had forfeited the Plantagenet fiefs in France.
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Some Crusaders stayed on, to be granted various fiefs.
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Bad loans were ballooning, costs were skyrocketing, and warring fiefdoms from its three merged banks were resisting change.
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Indeed, by all accounts Tsutsumi ran the public company like a private fiefdom.
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In his interview with Reuters on Thursday, he called Olympus "a fiefdom, a kingdom," and added that "Kikukawa is the emperor.
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That he runs United like his own personal fiefdom?
Times, Sunday Times
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Throughout 1171, Strongbow sent emissaries to Henry, and eventually went to Henry in person, offering to surrender his lands in return for their fief as a vassal of the king.
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It has shown what happens when unelected officials run their own fiefdoms with little regard for democratic accountability.
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That way, I would retain control of my own fief, and still have the man I loved.
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Edward was the only one who held a key, and he had to deliver me to Liam untouched, or he would never fulfil his outrageous desire to take my fief from me.
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In the two decades in which he bestrode the sport in this country, he claimed much of the credit for the success of British athletics, often behaving as if it were his fiefdom.
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Both House and Senate are composed of countless fiefdoms of committees and subcommittees that oversee the Executive Branch.
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The model of government was taken from that of a military subordination, and a fief was the temporary pay of an officer proportioned to his rank.
An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition
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After this feast, the King brought the Count of Poitiers to Poitiers, that he might take seizin of his fiefs, but when the King was come to Poitiers, he would gladly have been back again in Paris; for he found that the Count of La Marche, who had eaten at his table on Saint John's day, had got together a number of men-at-arms at Lusignan by Poitiers.
The Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville
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There was a fief, a tambourine, lyres and lutes.
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Royal finance: (1) nonfeudal revenues: Danegeld, shire farms, judicial fines; (2) the usual feudal revenues: relief (inheritance tax on great fiefs), scutage (paid in lieu of performance of knight's service).
B. The British Isles
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He agreed to make the decision on condition that the one whom he selected should hold Scotland as a fief from the English king.
An Introduction to the History of Western Europe
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This practice was also founded on the notion that a fief was a benefice, and that, while the heir could not perform his military services, the revenue devolved to the superior, who employed another in his stead.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part A. From the Britons of Early Times to King John
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Confucius was from a warrior family. His father Shulianghe was a famous warrior who had military exploits in two battles and owned a fiefdom.
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He subsequently distinguished himself under the Peshwah in the famous campaigns of 1737-8 against the Mogul emperor, Mohammed Shah: and on the cession of Malwa to the Mahrattas in 1743, he received the government of that province as a _jaghir_ or fief, which he transmitted at his death to his son Mahdajee.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844
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A considerable number of the vassals of the count held lands of other lords, there being nothing to prevent a subvassal from accepting a fief directly from the king, or from any other neighboring noble landholder.
An Introduction to the History of Western Europe
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As owner of this fief, Claude Follow was one of the seven times twenty-one seigneurs claiming manorial dues in Paris and its suburbs; and in that capacity his name was long to be seen inscribed between the Hôtel de Tancarville, belonging to Maître François le Rez, and the College of Tours, in the cartulary deposited at Saint-Martin des Champs.
II. Claude Frollo. Book IV
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He worked with Mr Putin at first, but all attempts to break up his Moscow fief, which is fortified by its own courts, police and media, have invariably failed.
The Economist: Correspondent's diary
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The oil and mineral companies bought their fiefs.
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And as the buttoned-down publisher learns Internet geekspeak, it is also finally forcing its mini-fiefdoms to speak to each other.
Bertelsmann's Online Onslaught
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They were all the lords of fairly small districts (as you can confirm from the map of Gondor in the book), none much bigger than another, except for the large fief of Belfalas and the remote and thinly populated Anfalas, ‘the Langstrand far away’; and they all seemed to be tenants in chief of the Steward himself.
Superversive: Gondor, Byzantium, and Feudalism
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Bernhard lives in his castle Scharnstein (which is an allod), and holds the villages of Grünau and Viechtwang as fiefs from the abbey.
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He has made it clear that the England team are a personal fiefdom, run on autocratic grounds.
Times, Sunday Times
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Strictly speaking, however, a fief was usually defined as immovable property whose usufruct perpetually conceded to another under the obligation of fealty and personal homage.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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The group degenerated into a bunch of randomly run fiefdoms, with octogenarians on the boards and no modern management systems, checks, or controls.
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We need them now and, from the reports of drought in the western fiefs, we shall need them for some time to come.
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When William of Normandy conquered England, he rewarded his followers with fiefs: in England, while English land remained so to be parceled out; afterwards (he and his successors) with unconquered lands in Wales, and then in Ireland. they were to carve out baronies and earldoms for themselves; and the Celtic lands thus stolen became known as the Marches: their rulers, more or less independent, but doing homage to the king, as Lords
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19
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The country was soon essentially ungovernable, with various warlords in murderous control of their own fiefdoms.
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According to feudal law, Edward III held Aquitaine as part of his fiefdom.
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He was only twelve, you know, when he inherited the procuratorial fief of Ni-moya.
LORD PRESTIMION
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Several years ago, casino king Donald Trump almost lost his fiefdom when the ratings companies downgraded his bonds.
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It is not, one presumes, the view of the French generals who currently treat the people and nation of Cote d' Ivoire as their fief.
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The ministry is indeed a fief, a holdover from the era when the state controlled all.
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Brown's attitude is typical of this, and I live in his "fiefdom"!
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The family ran it as their personal fiefdom, and a degree of deference lingers.
Times, Sunday Times
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The struggle with the curia began at the Diet of Besancon, where Rainald vigorously rejected the use of the word beneficium, which might mean fief as well as benefit.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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Germany, as you know, all lands that, are not fiefs are equally divided among all the children, which ruins those families; but all male fiefs of the empire descend unalienably to the next male heir, which preserves those families.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
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With the power to deliver the voters of this fiefdom to Boston's Democratic party machine, Patrick's advance was spectacular.
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Taking the two key aspects of feudalism - vassalship and fiefdom - he argues that the National Socialist system of government can be seen in these terms.
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King John made up by surrendering his kingdom as a feudal fief to the pope.
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Lord paramount over the empire of mind as well as matter, he alone is seized, in fee simple right, of the whole domain: provinces of which men hold, as fiefs, by vassal tenure, subject to reversion and enfeoffment to another.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.
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Instead of a system overmighty departments acting as a large impenatrable fiefdoms. max
Matthew Yglesias » Nomination Follies
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Before the Nehru family made Amethi their fief, there were no roads, power, schools and industries there.
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Mayawati makes no secret of the fact that she would like to cross the Yamuna River, which separates her fiefdom from the national capital in New Delhi, to be elected the first Dalit prime minister.
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fiefdoms" - is both unwieldy and expensive, they say.
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This car doesn't just have a narrative—the retro-modern version of the Italian classic cinquecento ; the U.S. return of the Fiat brand after more than two decades; Chrysler's postbankruptcy status as fiefdom of Fiat.
For the Cheerleader in Everyone
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His buccaneering style has always suggested that Dubai is his personal fiefdom.
Times, Sunday Times
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I have never been to the northern fiefs, and those lands will be mine before Neleva.
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In order to force these territorial lords to do military service fiefs were granted from the already existing public domain, and in their turn the great lords granted part of these fiefs to their retainers.
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There is growing evidence that what central control of them existed has now disappeared and we are back to local fiefdoms doing their own sectarian things.
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Before Mitarai took over, Canon had a dozen major divisions that operated like individual fiefdoms, obsessed with building sales numbers at any cost.
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In the early 13th cent. there was a French court, comprising six ecclesiastics and six laymen, known as ‘the Twelve Peers of France’; this court in 1202 declared King John deprived of his fiefs in France.
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It was described to the engineer, and he was the de-facto explainer for the group, but seriously Childs was working for the gov't too long and had too many bad habits of "fiefdom" creation that are everywhere in city and state organizations.
Slashdot: Your Rights Online
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We recognized early on that it's easy to wind up with a lot of independent fiefdoms that run and operate without very much leveraging of one another's resources.
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Laward was able to gain the viceregency of Schleswig in fief from the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
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Grendel this monster grim was called, march-riever 7 mighty, in moorland living, in fen and fastness; fief of the giants the hapless wight a while had kept since the Creator his exile doomed.
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere
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The Genoese, who, after the recovery of Constantinople, were seated in the suburb of Pera or Galata, received that honorable fief from the bounty of the emperor.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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From 1964 to 1982, Chairman Charles Swibel - appointed by Daley to the board in 1956 at the young age of 29-ran the CHA as a small fiefdom.
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The irony is that you're more likely to get all of the megaprojects, and fewer improvements to the roadways in your neighborhood, if you take away some element of control for project spending via local 'fiefdoms' -- like the mayor and city council of your city, etc.
Sound Politics: Million Dollar Bash
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It was an amalgamation of independent German kingdoms, fiefdoms, and statelets, lightly bound together with no revenue, army, courts, or police.
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In Wales it was not unknown for son to follow sire in the cure of a parish, and worse, for the sons of bishops to take it for granted they should succeed their mitred fathers, as though the supreme offices of the Church had been turned into heritable fiefs.
His Disposition
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It doesn't take a genius to understand why Bremmer and his boss are so reluctant to employ the universal concept of democracy in their occupied fief.
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Singh, a Lok Sabha member, has accused Kumar of overlooking genuine party workers and treating the party as his "fiefdom".
The Economic Times
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The existing alphabet soup of agencies and separate local fiefdoms is a dysfunctional mess.
Sound Politics: Million Dollar Bash
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Otherwise Leinster and Meath became fiefs, held of the English crown by precisely defined knight service by Strongbow and Hugh de Lacy respectively.
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He has made it clear that the England team are a personal fiefdom, run on autocratic grounds.
Times, Sunday Times
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The chartered companies originated in the feudal practice of sovereigns granting fiefs to vassals in exchange for acceptance of obligations to the suzerain.
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He gave fiefs to Norman lords, trying to keep the Saxon barons from becoming too strong.
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His fiefdom was the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit, hers the Virginia medical examiner's system.
Predator
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The intellectual elite often denounce his proclamations as transgressing outside his jurisdictional fiefdom.
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He wrote many books, commanding a swathe of medieval history as if it had been a personal fiefdom.
Times, Sunday Times
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Those who fought with him at Hastings did very well, receiving lands all over England as fiefs.
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Now he looks to be making an unceremonious exit from the Baroda Cricket Association as well which he has been ruling over like his personal fiefdom.
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In fact, fief is the root word for fee and thats what you find on a speeding ticket: theres a fee for the courts, a fee for the admin personnel, a fee for processing and lastly, a fee for going over the 1973 oil-crisis fabricated 55mph speed limit. luvmycop
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His buccaneering style has always suggested that Dubai is his personal fiefdom.
Times, Sunday Times
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In 1525 Albrecht of Hohenzollern, Grand Master of the Order, accepted Lutheranism, secularized the state, and created a duchy as a fief of Poland.
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He also helped to turn Texas from a Democrat - controlled state into a Republican fiefdom.
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On this occasion it is to Henry the parliamentarian that we are bidding adieu, as he is dislodged from his Central Fife fiefdom by an ungrateful Labour movement.
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The allodium was held as an unconditional gift rather than as a fief, although the beneficiary was expected to be at the king's disposal in future military campaigns.
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The fief overshadowed fealty, the benefice became more important than vassalage, and freemen began to swear allegiance to the highest bidder only.
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The fief was usually land necessary to maintain the vassal, but oftentimes the vassal would receive regular payments of money from a lord.
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By 1086, 80% of the fiefs were in Norman hands (some held by Flemings and Bretons).
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The Bedouin chieftain Zahir al-'Umar, who eventually carved out the equivalent of a fiefdom in northern Palestine, had gone to Damascus briefly as a youth and received some instruction there.
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While indigo is no longer a tool of oppression, it is still an area rooted in fiefdom and intolerance.
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Now it's the signories of Confolens, Chabanes, Châteaumorant, Lombert, ceded to a captain for a ridiculous price; now it's the fief of Fontaine
Là-bas
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Her parents were a baron and baroness and they had an older son as well that was to inherit the fief.
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The fief overshadowed fealty, the benefice became more important than vassalage, and freemen began to swear allegiance to the highest bidder only.
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Some of the companies are still being run as greedy, petty fiefdoms.
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palatine" clergy, from the middle of the twelfth century, coupled with the disappearance of the judices palatini, tended to enlarge the share of the cardinals in the administration of papal justice and finances, also of the fiefs of the Holy See and of the States of the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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Probably because it's an early work, its influences sound out rather clearly: early Stravinsky, Soviet Prokofieff, Borodinish orientalia, and here and there a bit of Blochian meditation.
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Those are the very same powerful Pentagon 'fiefdoms' that created the problem in the first place," Grassley wrote, "and the very same ones that Eisenhower warned us about 50 years ago.
Winslow T. Wheeler: Memo to Tea Party Senators
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Prancor, too, was in the Wraston Basin, but it wasn't so much a mining fief as it was a lumber-oriented fief.
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I am the custodian of the faith and savings of 30,000 members and I can't turn it into a fief.
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It appears unlikely that Tung will soon name a successor since Yeoh has until October before abandoning his fief for exile.
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But in 1086 William forced all his vassals to swear service directly to him for their fiefs.
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It was considered best to separate the holy callings of the monk and the nun, vocations close to God, from everyday maintenance in medieval fiefdoms.
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Instead, paramilitary gangs carve out fiefdoms to exploit drug-dealing and protection rackets, while young people look up to these criminals as role models.
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In those days the Allée des Veuves in the Champs Elysees had a "fief reservé des Ebugors" [FN#423] -- "veuve" in the language of Sodom being the maîtresse en titre, the favourite youth.
Arabian nights. English
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Their heirs would become emperors; John's own heirs would be given various imperial fiefs.
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John became Lord of Ireland in 1177, but he did not receive any actual fiefs, so he got nicknamed John Lackland.
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Wearing their organizational hat, they - Gary Latham more vigorously and successfully than most - have moved toward closer cooperation among the manifold fiefs of psychology, and their various barons.
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The vote on Sunday was the final stage in a peace plan to end 13 years of civil war and restore a government to Somalia, which has been divided into fiefs ruled by rival warlords since 1991 when dictator Siad Barre was ousted.
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In 1758, Nanjiraj, the powerful minister of the raja, caused Bangalore to be granted, as a _jagir_ or fief, to Hyder
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
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But with old rivalries running deep and half the country still carved into de facto fiefdoms, it isn't easy to divvy up power, government posts and mineral spoils.
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The push for freedom that began in Iraq is steadily wresting Lebanon away from its status as a fief of Damascus.
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But nimble-footed, brinkman-ship expert Manny got his wife Cynthia, now congresswoman after him of the family fiefdom, to play "oppositionist" and vote against Gloria.
Ellen tordesillas
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As a teenager in Jakarta's Manga Besar district, Fiefi Wongsowidjojo, a Betawi and founder of the Jakarta cafe chain Betawi Kafe, frequented one gado-gado stall in particular: "I went there several times a week," she recalls.
The Dish: Gado-Gado
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London's financial centre traditionally consists of enclosed, private fiefdoms, while the speculative block usually contains very little social space outside the standard floorplates.
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As a result of this beguiling pluralism, various movements openly jostled for state recognition, critics voraciously debated the most appropriate styles, and party officials established their own cultural fiefdoms.
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Fiefs were an establishment of the Lombards, from whom the emperors of Germany, and the kings of France, borrowed this custom, and with it the feodal laws, of which no mention is made in the Routun code.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
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We shall have, moreover, the same respite and in the same manner in rendering justice concerning the disafforestation or retention of those forests which Henry our father and Richard our brother afforested, and concerning the wardship of lands which are of the fief of another (namely, such wardships as we have hitherto had by reason of a fief which anyone held of us by knight's service), and concerning abbeys founded on other fiefs than our own, in which the lord of the fee claims to have right; and when we have returned, or if we desist from our expedition, we will immediately grant full justice to all who complain of such things.
The Magna Carta
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Brokaw and Jennings want to preserve their fiefs for just a little while longer (Brokaw retires on December 1).
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In this fiefdom he was able to pursue his own projects, and soon the whirring of robots could be heard across the lino floors of the cybernetics department.
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But to avoid fiefs being subdivided and becoming non-viable, the rule of primogeniture prevailed, whereby the eldest son inherited the entire estate.
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But we must bear in mind that he still held his possessions in France as a fief from the French king, whose vassal he was.
General History for Colleges and High Schools
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When he abdicated his throne, the Princes were each given their own fiefdoms.
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One well-developed section is about New York, where newspaper competition was fierce, and innovative editors managed their press fiefdoms with care.
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At most large companies, there are competing agendas and fiefdoms that compete for resources and weigh in with differing visions on products. Jobs' leadership style cuts that out.
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Consolidation of the two cities has been blocked in the past because of "fiefdom" protection.
Undefined
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Like "banana republic," the word fiefdom is not meant to be friendly, and, by the way, is quite inaccurate when applied to Connecticut towns.
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Probably the best way to depict the Blair and Brown domains up to the 2001 election is to map the policy fiefdoms, or special interests, where an individual dominance could be discerned, even though such dominance was nowhere absolute.
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Qbt had he but the fecial afieflions, the common charities of life, or, wu he adorned with integrity — all might be forgiven.
The Monthly Review
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They only wanted to continue to operate their little fiefdom as far from public scrutiny as possible.
