| They have collected up our democratic powers piece by piece, hoarding them in the privacy of their own fiefdoms. |
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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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| They have gathered up our democratic powers piece by piece, taking these powers into their own private fiefdoms. |
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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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| When he abdicated his throne, the Princes were each given their own fiefdoms. |
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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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| The country was soon essentially ungovernable, with various warlords in murderous control of their own fiefdoms. |
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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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| Both House and Senate are composed of countless fiefdoms of committees and subcommittees that oversee the Executive Branch. |
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| Power has withered at the center and devolved to an archipelago of fiefdoms where warlords rule without the burdens of governing. |
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| Could they have done more for their blighted communities than simply build personal fiefdoms and live large? |
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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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| 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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| These are all people who have reputations and positions to protect, as well as their own turf to protect in what seem to be private 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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| Africa in particular is trapped by barriers to inward investment, nationalised industrial fiefdoms and fractured regional markets. |
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| The existence of petty fiefdoms like that which was present at Eurostat is unacceptable. |
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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 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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| It is important to avoid a drift back to a system of national and regional financial fiefdoms. |
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| It was about rights of feudal lords under their king, rights they chose not to extend to their own fiefdoms. |
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| This not only strengthened feudal fiefdoms, but also swelled the number of people subject to their control. |
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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 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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| To ensure that our actions are effective, we need to break down the barriers between fiefdoms. |
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| They reflect little more than the arbitrary ebb and flow of power between empires and fiefdoms. |
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| When we're looking at this industry, we see all these little fiefdoms, these little groups of people who all seem to be looking after their own. |
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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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| 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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| Some of the companies are still being run as greedy, petty fiefdoms. |
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| To succeed in SEPA, card payment systems must not establish national fiefdoms, but compete head to head with others and allow for competition between banks within the system, to the benefit of consumers. |
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| Rule by fiefdoms and aristocracy was widely replaced by national ideologies based on shared origins and culture. |
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| Other warlords, including Ismail Khan in the west and Dostum in the north, maintained their fiefdoms. |
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| Afonso then became king, whereupon he exiled his rival to Castile, and stripped him of all the lands and fiefdoms bestowed by their father. |
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| Under Abdullah, Saudi Arabia degenerated into multiple fiefdoms with each senior prince striving to exercise authority at the expense of the others. |
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| The political parties for whom our establishment sheds so many tears are only fiefdoms. |
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| It is set in a world of feudal fiefdoms around a great lake, ruled over by a king. |
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| Meanwhile, rural areas wither without farm support, and the few small towns that do thrive do so as low-tax, low-regulation corporate fiefdoms. |
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| A key change will be a PR voting system which supporters say will end one-party fiefdoms in council chambers across the country. |
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| And which of the family fiefdoms did she hope would prevail? |
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| You simply want secure fiefdoms for the members of your cliques at the expense of making others into vassals with even fewer rights than hitherto. |
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| It is a process imperative to repairing the fractured state of the country, divided up into a myriad of fiefdoms controlled by warlords with differing agendas, rarely progressive agendas. |
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| Finally, I hope that we can count on you to identify those who are committed to Europe of the twenty-first century versus those whose thinking is still dominated by the sixteenth-century ideas of ethnic fiefdoms. |
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| The truth is that, in the past, international rivalries between trading blocs, and the national fiefdoms established by many privacy czars, have stood in the way of meaningful collaboration. |
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| When the country was divided into fiefdoms of the warlords, protected by adolescent mercenary militia, they were already the favourite targets of the powerful, businessmen or self-proclaimed governors. |
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| The economy of the Angevin Empire was quite complicated due to the varying political structure of the different fiefdoms. |
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| Many of these fiefdoms were united in the Burgundian Netherlands of the 14th and 15th centuries. |
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| After the fall of Cordoba in 1013, the Saqaliba fled from the city to secure their own fiefdoms. |
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| In eastern Libya in particular, a myriad of former rebel militias, Islamist as well as regionalist, have carved out their own fiefdoms. |
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| The report, A New Force, found the current 43 forces operate as inefficient and expensive fiefdoms run by chief constables who are only accountable to weak police authorities. |
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