Sentences with word «fiefdom»

Not personal fiefdoms of intellectual self - indulgence and elitism.

His vicious personal fiefdom of Candyland becomes a symbol for the sadism, oppression, theft of identity, false assertion of enduring superiority and the corruption of the human spirit that lie behind slavery.

And that's just as many new political fiefdoms for the Chicago Teachers Union to attempt to control with its robust war chest.

But as the city degenerated into a series of warring fiefdoms in the 1980s, its power and water supplies became increasingly unreliable.

Highways exist to allow the citizens to go about their normal business; they are not the private fiefdom of the local authority and their closure should be exceptional.

The Reverend has his little political fiefdom in the Bronx, but its small, limited, and the fact his endorsed candidate Cabrera lost significantly to Sen. Rivera shows that in the end, Diaz Sr. has nowhere the pull of his son, who is backing Cuomo big time.

The coming elections in 2016 and 2017 present the very real danger of irrelevance and ultimately extinction for the party, especially if the SNP can gain local government fiefdoms like Glasgow, which act as centres for political patronage.

Here we go again... smoke - no fire, just the same old BS to placate the public while letting the crooks continue to do little or nothing but become rich and famous in their own little fiefdom.

The influential publication credited Zimpher with unifying the system that had often acted «like a big group of warring fiefdoms competing for money and students.»

Making people work together when they have built up individual fiefdoms for decades will also be tricky.

«They want to be private fiefdoms where they can secretly do what they want and put out the information they think you need to know.»

Exile: the vested interests intent on protecting their local fiefdoms lobbied vary hard against the government consolidation bill, with lots of disinformation.

Unlike the activist firms run by Bill Ackman or Dan Loeb, the fund Paul Singer founded has raised an army of activists who can influence corporate fiefdoms everywhere.

Android is supposed to be the egalitarian alternative to the iOS fiefdom.

Changes to the corporate structure mean that Quixey is now working with different people (Alibaba's Joe Tsai, for example, is no longer directly involved), and quarterly road - maps are soon supplemented by weekly deliverables (sometimes sent directly to Quixey engineers from Alibaba engineers, as the latter company's various fiefdoms become more pronounced).

Google's growing fiefdom in New York signals more headline real estate plays to come, sources say

But what complicates this equation is the fact that California's 10 sections operate as independent fiefdoms, each with its own rules and regulations, and each with its arcane calculations to determine who goes in postseason.

Scotland used to be a Labour fiefdom; now the party is fighting for its life.

Speaking in Sheffield Hallam, Mr Clegg said the Lib Dems had already taken on and defeated Labour's «one party fiefdoms in the north and the Tories in the southern shires and boroughs that they seem to think they were born to rule.»

If Johnny Depp's mesmerizing performance — a bracing return to form for the star after a series of critical and commercial misfires — is the chief selling point of Black Mass, there is much else to recommend this sober, sprawling, deeply engrossing evocation of Bulger's South Boston fiefdom and his complex relationship with the FBI agent John Connolly, played with equally impressive skill by Joel Edgerton.

The first image from the upcoming crime thriller Green Room has arrived online, showing Patrick Stewart (X-Men: Days of Future Past) as Darcy Banker, the unflinching and industrial leader of a ferocious white supremacist fiefdom based in the Pacific Northwest... In the crime thriller GREEN ROOM, a young punk rock band find themselves trapped in -LSB-...]

And in the kind of role we've never seen him in, Stewart will play Darcy Banker, the unflinching leader of a ferocious white supremacist fiefdom based in the Pacific Northwest.

«Nevada Barr has carved out her own fictional fiefdom, creating a body of work like no other,» the San Diego Union Tribune remarked in 1996 upon the publication of the fifth book in Barr's acclaimed series featuring... (more)

Based on these criteria, we can immediately eliminate cellulosic ethanol, nuclear, and coal carbon capture, three bad technologies that have well funded research fiefdoms.

Instead, it has contributed to the bureaucratization and routinization of the K — 12 enterprise, buttressing its rigid procedures, internal fiefdoms, and culture of compliance rather than fostering innovation, much less transformation.

They are in cahoots with the Whitehall civil service who are keen to expand their central fiefdom no matter what the cost to the local civil service.

This at least should make us think of a real new approach, based on selling books instead of creating fiefdoms around formats.

We're finally seeing GM's strategic plan come together, that is, running the company as one, coordinated entity, rather than as a collection of regional fiefdoms that do their own thing and duplicate a lot of effort.

We are, in fact, the only major industrialized economy without a national securities regulator: the existing system of 13 provincial and territorial fiefdoms is an antiquated contraption bilking money from corporations by forcing them to pay fees in multiple jurisdictions.

Gerdes, who is more than a mere perambulatory Rolodex, has the inside dish on the strategic focus of the various and diffuse fiefdoms within the Microsoft realm and in fact probably knows more about Microsoft's strategic direction than many Microsoft employees.

Occupation: CEO and founder of Chris Madden Inc., a growing domestic - diva fiefdom that's filling the vacuum left by Martha Stewart.

As my colleague David Z. Morris put it, «An Uber deal with Grab could serve SoftBank's push to streamline the competitive environment for ride - hailing services — or, put another way, to divide up its global kingdom into small, relatively sheltered fiefdoms.»

Rather than working to ensure that a thriving ecosystem is available for everyone who wants to participate, the Bitcoin community seems more interested in protecting its existing fiefdom than supporting the ecosystem.

But privatizers add on interest and financial fees, high executive salaries and bonuses, and turn the roads into toll roads and other infrastructure into neofeudal fiefdoms to charge monopolistic access fees for people to use.

If the future pan-Orthodox Council is to have historical significance, its leaders will have to transcend their personal resentments, stop looking after the self - interest of their respective ecclesial fiefdoms, and go beyond the haphazard list of items drawn up decades ago.

Europe in the 1100's was awash in hundreds of separate fiefdoms, each with it's own interests and needs.

Although the international community looks upon these artificial fiefdoms as internal colonies, the regime had high hopes for this plan until foreign pressure at least momentarily suspended the policy of denying blacks citizenship in their own country.

These new «disciplines» provided academic fiefdoms for anti-Semitic and anti-white racists like Professor Leonard Jeffries of CUNY, who teaches undergraduates the moral superiority of the «sun people» because of the higher melanin content in their skin, and Leroi Jones, a / k / a Imiri Baraka, now Professor Baraka and head of Afro - American Studies at SUNY - Stony Brook.

There are, no doubt, other interests at stake, such as those linked to the oil fiefdoms of central Asia!

will it take another season of Giroud leading the line and failing miserably yet again for people to understand that Wenger now runs the club as his own private fiefdom??

What's funny is that Wenger has been taking the piss out of Arsenal FC for years, using it as his own personal ego fiefdom.

The park district has been viewed for so long as Kelly «s patronage fiefdom — with an estimated 1,000 Democratic precinct captains on its payroll

He argues vehemently that if there was any usefulness to the election, it was that it provided an insight into how democratic process could be subverted by an organized electoral pirates who worked to enthrone a regime of anomie in pursuit of a Hobbesian fiefdom that Ekiti has become.

Ulrich wants his own fiefdom out there.»

In 1949 the Upper East Side was essentially a Republican fiefdom — and had been for decades.