Sentences with phrase «local fiefdoms»

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.

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

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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.

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.

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.