Sentences with phrase «fiefdoms in»

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

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.»

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.

Not exact matches

In one concept, 72andSunny pitched having Tom Cruise reprise his character from the 2008 comedy Tropic Thunder as a brash, cursing movie studio executive, and equip him with a PlayBook to run his corporate fiefdom.

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.

So both are paradoxically true: rising inequality is indeed a crisis of Neoliberal Global State Capitalism, and so is the rise of the supposed «solution,» the insatiable plundering State in service to its fiefdoms and private Financial Power Elites (the Plutocracy).

I did not get to play in the inner circle of a fiefdom that fed toxicity.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Misratans should run their town's affairs through their new democratically - elected local council and Benghazi transparency activists must be involved in their local governance — but only as representatives of the central government and not as their own fiefdoms.

All I'll say is that Englishness isn't anyone's personal fiefdom, nor anyone in particular's gift to bestow.

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.

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.

Senator Diaz might be a significant factor with regards to who ends up controlling the Senate, but in terms of electoral pull outside his church and fiefdom, the man has almost no influence.

If there is one man who can make Klein sweat in the Bronx, where he's erected a fiefdom and cultivated allies, it's Heastie, who leads a conference getting weary of watching priorities like ethics reform and the DREAM Act die in the senate.

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

To do this they will need to reign in the power of the regional office fiefdoms and impose a rational state - wide strategy.

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 lawsuit accuses Mr. Espada of using a publicly supported entity as a personal fiefdom — to the tune of $ 14 million in misappropriated funds.

He alleged Cuomo has used the state party as his «personal fiefdom,» adding it «has been a subsidiary to the governor the entire time he has been in office.

«His biggest contribution was taking the plasma activities at MIT from a group of warring fiefdoms to a unified and productive laboratory,» said Ronald Parker, a professor of nuclear engineering and electrical engineering and computer science emeritus who succeeded Davidson as the director in 1988.

I hate you) started cracking down on dissidents in his fiefdom.

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-..in the Pacific Northwest... In the crime thriller GREEN ROOM, a young punk rock band find themselves trapped in -LSB-..In the crime thriller GREEN ROOM, a young punk rock band find themselves trapped in -LSB-..in -LSB-...]

Rogen's Ronnie Barnhardt is a rent - a-cop security chief who regards his turf — the enclosed Forest Ridge Mall in Albuquerque, N.M. — as his fiefdom.

While A.O. Scott of The New York Times described the film as «solid but standard» outside the theater after the press screening, Variety hailed Depp's «mesmerizing performance» in a «sober, sprawling, deeply engrossing evocation of Bulger's South Boston fiefdom,» labeling the film «one of the fall's first serious, awards - caliber attractions.»

It's time that someone tells the public what is really going on in the school systems, and in these contrived fiefdoms known as districts, that not only abuse the teaching staff, but waste taxpayer money to fix what they have caused in the first place.

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.

The Ashanti Nation was a loose group of fiefdoms, an ethnic subgroup that was formed in 17th century Ghana as a trading coalition with the Europeans.

More importantly in a town of fiercely guarded opinions and fiefdoms, Lew Engman could take the heat of debate.

So the Norse reign in fiefdoms scattered from Harald's home county of Vestfold, northward to Hordaland, Sogn, North and South Maer, Trondelag, and Halogaland — «lands separated by kings and valleys, lands that will never be reconciled to one another.»

«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)

Kindle 4 which is yet a distant dream will perhaps be able to make a dent in the Apple fiefdom, but as on date it's Apple all the way that is keeping the Kindle at bay.

«In essence, we are tearing down the walls the large e-book retailers have established, and are no longer allowing them to build consumer - unfriendly fiefdoms,» Illian said.

«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 National Park Service Ranger Anna Pigeon.

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.

The research shows that, in addition to undervaluation, activists seek cash - rich balance sheets, and over-diversified businesses, both of which are symptoms of the tension between managers who want larger fiefdoms, and shareholders who prefer that cash be distributed out to them when returns drop below a threshold.

«This shows that the Tate has been functioning in an unacceptable way, as if it were a private fiefdom rather than accountable to the law,» said Charles Thomson, co-founder of the group.

The US Constitution still cripples the federal government's effort to curb the local fiefdoms of today's Patrick Henrys, rooted as it was in slavery, mercantilism, and frontier exploitation.

His own fiefdom, the empire he personally built over the past three decades, is one in which women have lived in fear of losing their jobs if they objected to groping, forcible kissing, and other inappropriate workplace behaviour.

Like law schools, undergraduate tuition has risen dramatically thanks to the «arms race» (in the form of new buildings and amenities having nothing to do with enhancing «value» to the students» education (as opposed to comfort), bloated administrative fiefdoms, an emphasis on faculty «scholarship» (see our Chief Justice's candidly caustic views on that one) and student «rebates.»

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.

It is still a long time until the Mac Pro ships in 2019, and assorted internet fiefdoms are battling about the machine, who needs it, and what it has to have, with unnecessary skirmishes getting fought, and battle - lines being drawn already.