Sentences with phrase «fiefdoms like»
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.
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But as Arsenal is his fiefdom, he can still smirk at the cameras ansd say things like, «we are a bit short, but we do nt need anyone at the moment»
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.
They are not accountable locally or nationally and can be run like fiefdoms — ordering their own IT, uniforms and equipment.
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.»
If there is one thing I know... Mike Long runs the Conservative Party like a personal fiefdom.
There manager Alan Grossman established his personal fiefdom of studios and restaurants where the likes of Bob Dylan, Paul Butterfield and Todd Rundgren mixed and mingled with Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin.
Before the advent of Uber (and similar upstarts like Lyft), competition between taxi companies occurred only within the rigid structure of bureaucratic taxi fiefdoms.
Ofsted believes there was an organised campaign of infiltrating schools, undermining head teachers and governors running state schools like private fiefdoms.
He had lived sixty - five years and liked to boast that he had not left his fiefdom for the last forty of them.
«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)
«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.
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.»
He said, «It felt like it was all about people with titles sitting on their little fiefdoms,» and sensed that he would be end up being the go - between as they fought over budgets.