fiefdom

How To Use fiefdom 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.
• 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
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.