Sentences with phrase «fiefdoms for»

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

Will England accept being carved up into career sized fiefdoms for the convenience of professional politicians?

«Shelly Silver is the poster - child for professional politicians who create personal fiefdoms for themselves and their corrupt cronies,» he said in the speech.

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

The sense of betrayal that residents feel has its roots in a park district that has operated as a fiefdom for a select few without public scrutiny or input.

It's a reach at best shown as we are the anarchy that reigned then and for decades to come with Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall running the city as a fiefdom for the robber barons at the top of New York society.

He had lived sixty - five years and liked to boast that he had not left his fiefdom for the last forty of them.

Not exact matches

Not bothering to tell Wikipedia fits as well; Google treats the web as its fiefdom, and for good reason.

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.

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).

The patriarchal, macho, controlling, manipulative, shaming, money - grubbing, name - it - and - claim - it, fear - mongering, other - despising, fiefdom - making, using and abusing, excuse for narcissistic and plain old selfish and power - addled appalling behavior that is commonly called «church» and «church leadership» has nothing whatsoever to do with anything the person or character or compilation or concept called «Jesus» ever reportedly or theoretically said, did, or conveyed.

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.

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??

I realise that Chechnya, as Kadyrov's private fiefdom, is far worse than the rest of Russia but even with that in mind Russia's backslide into autocratic thuggery under Putin should be condemned for what it is.

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

I am sorry, but I will not be shedding any tears for the evangelical, aggressive and routinely failing welfare reforms that were the personal fiefdom of the Secretary of State for DWP.

«We understand some people want to protect their fiefdoms at all costs, but the Governor's plan is to get municipalities to talk to each other and actually lower costs for property taxpayers,» said Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi.

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.

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

By 2008, however, with Blair finally gone, he was back in the Cabinet Office, using his emotional intelligence to dig out information for Brown on the thinking inside the Labour's warring fiefdoms.

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

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.»

McPartland, a leading Tory tax credit rebel, wrote on his website yesterday: «I will not be shedding any tears for the evangelical, aggressive and routinely failing welfare reforms that were the personal fiefdom of the Secretary of State for DWP.»

It wasn't always this way for the Senate, which from the 1960s until the late 2000s had been a relatively sleep chamber controlled by Republicans endowed with virtual fiefdoms of legislative earmarks.

There is separation of powers in our constitution and all arms of government know what they need to do for our country to run smoothly and not as a personal fiefdom of anybody,» he said.

The councils were tasked with developing strategic plans for their fiefdoms, and their members would be given a say over who got state funding therein.

Dan: Yeah, I think for a long time colleges and universities have been fiefdoms of deciding who is going forward into the teaching profession.

I've been on groups where the moderators used the group for little more than a personal fiefdom, not only is IAG not like that, but the active members go out of their way to help the newbies, and if there aren't answers by anyone, the mods tend to answer in 24 hours or less.

... As the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, James Hansen's personal fiefdom, does with its figures.

Lawtender submits that the term - limits battle is not a power struggle between two branches of government, but a struggle of the governed against those that would view their office in the judiciary as an appointment for life to their own private, inviolable fiefdom.