How To Use Fiefdom In A Sentence
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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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His buccaneering style has always suggested that Dubai is his personal fiefdom.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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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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The intellectual elite often denounce his proclamations as transgressing outside his jurisdictional fiefdom.
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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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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 existing alphabet soup of agencies and separate local fiefdoms is a dysfunctional mess.
Sound Politics: Million Dollar Bash
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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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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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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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He also helped to turn Texas from a Democrat - controlled state into a Republican fiefdom.
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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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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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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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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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His buccaneering style has always suggested that Dubai is his personal fiefdom.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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fiefdoms" - is both unwieldy and expensive, they say.
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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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Instead of a system overmighty departments acting as a large impenatrable fiefdoms. max
Matthew Yglesias » Nomination Follies
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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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They only wanted to continue to operate their little fiefdom as far from public scrutiny as possible.
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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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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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Consolidation of the two cities has been blocked in the past because of "fiefdom" protection.
Undefined
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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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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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When he abdicated his throne, the Princes were each given their own fiefdoms.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Some of the companies are still being run as greedy, petty fiefdoms.
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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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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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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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Can the county council cabinet can now treat Wiltshire like some private fiefdom?
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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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They have gathered up our democratic powers piece by piece, taking these powers into their own private fiefdoms.
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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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Re: reforming & consolidating N.O.'s 7 wasteful assessorship fiefdoms:
Your Right Hand Thief
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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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Scotland is what Germans call Amigoland the kind of fiefdom the CSU has made Bavaria by hook and by crook
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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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Our new architecture broke up those functional fiefdoms and broke down those functional walls.
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Our new architecture broke up those functional fiefdoms and broke down those functional walls.
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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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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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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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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 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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That he runs United like his own personal fiefdom?
Times, Sunday Times
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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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Mayor Daley thinks that his fiefdom is exempt from the Founding documents.
Supreme Court Sets Date For Landmark Gun-Rights Case
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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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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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The alpha males (I guess) feel obliged to rear up periodically and assert their fiefdom with a ‘roar.’
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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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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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The family ran it as their personal fiefdom, and a degree of deference lingers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Brown's attitude is typical of this, and I live in his "fiefdom"!
Vote Labour or Else...
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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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According to feudal law, Edward III held Aquitaine as part of his fiefdom.
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The country was soon essentially ungovernable, with various warlords in murderous control of their own fiefdoms.
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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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He has made it clear that the England team are a personal fiefdom, run on autocratic grounds.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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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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Both House and Senate are composed of countless fiefdoms of committees and subcommittees that oversee the Executive Branch.
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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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It has shown what happens when unelected officials run their own fiefdoms with little regard for democratic accountability.
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That he runs United like his own personal fiefdom?
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
Reuters: Top News
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Indeed, by all accounts Tsutsumi ran the public company like a private fiefdom.
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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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Their fleets were their satrap, their feudal fiefdom, and the crews were their serfs.
SAN ANDREAS
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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
