| Can the county council cabinet can now treat Wiltshire like some private fiefdom? |
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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 intellectual elite often denounce his proclamations as transgressing outside his jurisdictional fiefdom. |
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| Indeed, by all accounts Tsutsumi ran the public company like a private fiefdom. |
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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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| Treasuring its coastal fiefdom, it has much more to lose than it did before. |
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| Adjara had been ruled since Georgian independence as a personal fiefdom of Aslan Abashidze, a former minor functionary. |
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| Controlling shareholders may, it is claimed, select subservient board members and generally act as though the company was their private fiefdom. |
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| At the auctions it was fiefdom against fiefdom and the spoils were dragged back to Japan. |
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| Because we knew that it was a bit of a fiefdom at that point in time. |
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| It was rebuilt in the 19th century on the foundations of a former, 15th century fiefdom. |
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| It was originally just a 14th century stronghold house, fiefdom of a small Seigneury, vassal of the Earldom of Château-Chinon. |
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| Will the Nisga'a Final Agreement create an independent fiefdom within Canada? |
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| In 1270, Bruzzano, after many vicissitudes and various reconstructions have become Brayda fiefdom of John, was named Bruzzano Vetere. |
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| To the south, we find the old headquarters of the fiefdom, the Ferme de la Ripaudière, surrounded by its quadrilateral moats. |
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| According to feudal law, Edward III held Aquitaine as part of his 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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| When one medieval fiefdom defeated another they would drag back its jewels, gold, tapestries and art objects as the spoils of war. |
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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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| 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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| Ben Ali's second wife, Leila, was a member of the Trabelsi family, a Mafia-like organisation based in the most expensive quartiers of Paris and Nice, which effectively ran Tunisia as their private fiefdom. |
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| We are also talking about the fact that only two nations, the United States and the U. K., are basically treating Iraq as their own personal fiefdom. |
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| Although it was not formally part of the Plantagenet fiefdom, Brittany was under firm control. |
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| There were further plans of expansion considered as Henry II's last brother didn't have a fiefdom. |
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| They will not, however, achieve the desired effects so long as space activities remain the fiefdom of a minority of States, chiefly those with outer space capacities. |
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| The latter region was the fiefdom of the new head of the Pakistani Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud, who was probably killed in January 2010 by Predator drones. |
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| Rewarding him for his bravery during the capture of Meaux in 1439, the King of France granted him the fiefdom of Torcy. |
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| History recounts that being part of the fiefdom of a vast neighbouring estate in the 18th century, this property became what it is today through the division of land. |
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| In addition, the large euro countries appear to look on the Executive Board of the European Central Bank as a fiefdom and exclude the representatives of other Member States from the outset. |
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| In 1164, following a land concession by Frederick I Barbarossa, it became a fiefdom of the Conti Alberti family, and remained in their hands until the end of the 13th century. |
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| Third, targeting the Senate allows the government to get on with its mission of centralizing power in the House of Commons, which Stephen Harper is turning into a virtual fiefdom under the Prime Minister's Office. |
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| As king of England, he retained the fiefdom of Normandy for himself and his descendants. |
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| Charles II had granted William Penn a proprietary charter and the Penn family ran the state like a fiefdom. |
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| Each fiefdom had its own director who was chosen and supervised by the local chief judge of the trial court. |
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| Not surprisingly Jack wants a piece of Santa's lovely fiefdom, and sets out to kidnap the fat man and take his own Christmas Eve sleigh ride. |
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| Ferguson was a fiefdom of the whites, where the colour of skin coloured local government and law enforcement. |
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| The new documents show how Warner, implicated down the years in a string of scandals over two decades during which he ran Concacaf as a personal fiefdom alongside the general secretary Chuck Blazer, moved the money around. |
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| We saw it just last week with the public works minister suggesting that all is fine, that the fiefdom will be whole again, that he can clean it up with a five point plan. |
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| The evisceration of this party that grew arrogantly to treat Scotland as its own fiefdom was so utter and complete on 7 May that, in Westminster last week, it was being described as an extinction event. |
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| At the stroke of a pen a new interfering busybody will be given a gigantic budget with which to expand their personal fiefdom and create another mountain of red tape. |
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| The duke's fiefdom had been greatly expanded as a reward for his dutiful military service on behalf of the king. |
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| Then, over our heads, came the soft swoop of a Magellanic horned owl, a glamorous giant of a predator, which seemed unperturbed by our presence in his fiefdom. |
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| I have watched particularly the chaos in my own state of Anambra where a small clique of renegades, openly boasting its connections in high places, seems determined to turn my homeland into a bankrupt and lawless fiefdom. |
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| Looking back there was something epic – epically banal, epically insular – about the cracked, self-mythologising personal fiefdom of Keys and Gray. |
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| On 7 January 1325, Afonso's father died and he became king, whereupon he exiled his rival to Castile, and stripped him of all the lands and fiefdom given by their father. |
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| Other nationalities, including Brits, are in the habit of getting out before dawn to drape towels over loungers to claim a family fiefdom close to the pool or bar area. |
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| King Olaf points out that the islands were originally a fiefdom and actually belong to him, but lets Brusi continue to control his share as long as he serves him. |
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| Most of our company's computers are standardized, but the IT director allows the employees in his own little fiefdom to specify their own machines. |
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| The only slight problem is the Duchy IS HRH's private fiefdom. |
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